Bug#606964: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Xen fails to boot dom0 kernel on system with, lots of RAM
On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 10:17 +0100, Rik Theys wrote:
> Ian,
>
> On 01/06/2011 10:09 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> >> I can test some more options on this system for a few more days, but
> >> then I have to reinstall it.
> >
> > If you are able it would be useful to know if the tip of
> > xen-4.0-testing.hg (which is just about to become 4.0.2-rc1) works or
> > not. You would only need to build the hypervisor binary itself not all
> > the tools etc which is relatively straight forward. I can give more
> > detailed instructions if necessary.
>
> Please do (provide detailed instructions).
You'll need to install mercurial, gcc, make and python (I think those
are the only dependencies for the hypervisor itself, hopefully any
errors due to missing tools will be fairly straightforward) and then:
$ hg clone http://xenbits.xen.org/xen-4.0-testing.hg
$ cd xen-4.0-testing.hg
$ make -C xen # Add -j<N> as desired.
Then copy xen/xen.gz to /boot/xen-4.0-testing.gz (or whatever name you
prefer) and update your bootloader (update-grub should do it?).
To rebuild with debugging enabled, which would be useful if the above
doesn't result in a successful boot:
$ make -C xen clean
$ make -C xen debug=y # Add -j<N> as desired.
If 4.0-testing doesn't work then doing the same thing with
http://xenbits.xen.org/xen-unstable.hg would also be informative.
Thanks!
Ian.
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