Bug 446308

Summary: Fedora 9 doesn't boot xen kernel, using luks encrypted root volume
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Franklin Ybanez <fybanez>
Component: kernel-xen-2.6Assignee: Xen Maintainance List <xen-maint>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority: urgent    
Version: 9CC: berrange, ehabkost
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Description Franklin Ybanez 2008-05-14 00:58:49 UTC 
Description of problem:
Fedora 9 doesn't boot xen kernel, using luks encrypted root volume.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Install kernel-xen, modify grub to boot xen kernel.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.
yum -y install kernel-xen
2.
Edit /etc/grub.conf for xen kernel to attempt to use same "ro root=UUID=..."
appended line in grub, as non-xen kernel; and attempt to boot; expecting luks
password prompt during boot process.
  
Actual results:

While trying on IBM Thinkpad T60 (RedHat Internal Employee sanctioned Laptop):
it's as if someone hits the reset button on the machine at the point the user
expects a luks password prompt. (the machine does a hard powercycle; instead of
booting, at the "VGA Console" type message point).

I've included a sysreport for engineering's convenience (from non-xen kernel).


Expected results:

LUKS Password prompt during pivot root process, as in non-xen kernel.

Additional info:

See attached sysreport.
Comment 1 Franklin Ybanez 2008-05-14 01:01:28 UTC 
Created attachment 305312 [details]
sysreport
Comment 2 Daniel Berrangé 2008-05-14 01:25:23 UTC 
Unfortunately, kernel-xen in F-9 does not support Dom0, so this is expected.

If you require a Xen Dom0, you'll need to use F-8 until F-10.

See here for more details:

  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvops


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 437930 ***