Please note, to avoid confusion. I have two i386 boxes that I try to run xen on. An old box which doesn't work, see bug 239512. In the hope to get a working environment I today bought a shiny new box, but on this machine I fail much earlier. This bug is about my new box, which has a mainboard with Intel P965 chipset and and a Core 2 Duo processor. Description of problem: kernel-xen does not boot up. I get failures and timeouts around sata. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-xen-2.6.20-2925.5.fc7 (kernel-2.6.20-1.3104.fc7) Actual results: does not boot, error messages, eventually panics Additional info: I will attach logfiles from the serial console
Created attachment 154769 [details] cat /proc/cpuinfo
Created attachment 154770 [details] lspci -n and lspci
Created attachment 154771 [details] plain kernel, not irqpoll, broken This is an attempt to boot the standard kernel (not xen). It fails to boot up.
Created attachment 154772 [details] plain kernel, boots up ok with irqpoll Using irqpoll kernel boot option I was able to boot up the plain kernel successfully. However, I really want to use xen on this machine, see next attachments.
Created attachment 154773 [details] xen kernel, not irqpoll, broken This is an attempt to boot up the xen kernel with default boot options. Not using irqpoll. Fails to boot.
Created attachment 154774 [details] xen kernel, using irqpoll, but still fails This is an attempt to boot up the xen kernel. In grub, I added the irqpoll option to both the "kernel" line and the "vmlinuz" line. Fails to boot.
Wow. kernel-xen-2.6.20-2925.8.fc7 using option "irqpoll" on both kernel and vmlinuz line. Boots up!!!
I notice that the kernel & HV you are using are a little old. Did you try the up2date kernel (should be kernel-xen-2.6.20-2925.8.fc7 and xen-3.1.0-0.rc7.1.fc7)? This is based on Xen 3.1.0 whereas you are using the previous release of Xen (3.0.4).
I think I should close this bug as WORKSFORME. Richard, 10 minutes before your comment I reported that it's working. So only the very latest bleeding edge kernel-xen works on my box, but hey, it works. I was able to install both para and fully virt clients, FC4 and RHEL 3. Good work.