Description of problem: FREEBSD's boot loader loops, spewing "BTX halted," and what looks like a register dump. I'm running AMD-64-compatible Linux and FREEBSDm but evidence is it's not confined to this architecture. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Download 7.0-BETA2-amd64-bootonly.iso to /var/lib/xen/images/7.0-BETA2-amd64-bootonly.iso 2. virt-install --name=FreeBSD-7 --ram=384 --vcpus=2 --file=/var/lib/xen/images/FreeBSD_70.img --file-size=2 --vnc --hvm --cdrom=/var/lib/xen/images/7.0-BETA2-amd64-bootonly.iso --os-type=unix 3. Actual results: Loop as above Expected results: Clean boot to installer Additional info: This is a well-known problem, has been reported for Xen 3.0 (originally) on Ubuntu and others and Xen 3.1, and with several versions of FREEBSD and relatives. In my case, I've already installed Window XP; the commandline above is based on the Windows one.
FreeBSD 6.2 boots, but doesn't get very far under Xen because of known problems in qemu (see bug 254176).
254176 doesn't look like this one to me. See http://herakles.homelinux.org/freebsd.png
Apparent upstream bug (I'm currently doing a test install of m0n0wall to see if I can reproduce it). http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=622
John, you say in the bug report that you observed this on FC6test3, which is a very old release of Fedora (and not supported). Is this so and/or can you try this on the newest Fedora?
Data entry error. f8t3. My system's fully up2date, I produced that screendump yesterday. it doesn't take long.
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=114826&cat=
*** Bug 365451 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This bug still exists in Fedora 8, and it looks like the upstream Xen bug hasn't been fixed.
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