Hi Erik, Thank you for your bug report.
On Mon, 2012-01-23 at 13:36 +0100, Erik Hjelmås wrote: > Package: xen-hypervisor-4.1-amd64 > Version: 4.1.2-2 > > When installing xen-linux-system on a new Dell R810 server, Wheezy, > Squeeze and Ubuntu server 11.10 all boot fine when booted directly into > the standard kernel, but when booting through Xen (after installing the > package xen-linux-system) the boot process hangs as soon as Xen passes > control to the Dom0 kernel: > > "Gave up waiting for root device" etc > > and it gives me Busybox, but it is also frozen, so there's no other > option that reboot. This might be the same issue as #649923. But please could you provide full console logs so we can verify. If you are able to try the patch in that bug or perhaps a backported 4.1 hypervisor that would also be potentially interesting. > After several days of troubleshooting it turns out that adding dom0_mem > option (e.g. dom0_mem=8192M) to the multiboot line of > /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen FIXES THE PROBLEM ! > > maybe this has to be fixed in the package? That file is provided by grub, not the hypervisor but I don't think that fix will work since a) really it is a workaround not a fix and b) it is not really possible to determine what is the right number to use for any given system. Ian. > (I havent tried this out on other hardware, only on the Dell R810 with > 256GB RAM and four eight-core processors) > > kind regards, > > /Erik > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pkg-xen-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-xen-devel > -- Ian Campbell You are number 6! Who is number one? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
