Bug#385574: Xen kernel 2.6.16-2 (18) spontaneously reboots during boot-up sequence

[Theo <ted-f@earthlink.net>]

Hi

I just istalled debian/testing on a 1.7GHz Celeron machine. This minimal debian system install was done as a net install on Sept 1st and came with linux-image-2.6.16-2-686 (version 17). the next day I upgraded to version 18 that had shown up in aptitude overnight. The upgrade worked and all is well...except that when I  later installed the xen packages and rebooted..I had problems:

In the middle  (XEN) part of the boot-up the kernel informs me that there will be a reboot in 5 seconds...this loop continues until I choose the non-Xen kernel in grub. apparently none of the boot messages make it into the kernel log or the xend log so I have very little to show regarding this bug..any advice wuold be appreciated

Note: two weeks ago I installed Debian/Testing with kernel package linux-image-2.6.16-2-686 (version 17) on a machine with an Intel D930 dual core processor...and everything works fine with Xen...including installation of unmodified win XP..

Thanks,

TedF