Re: domU guest for xcp 0.1.1

["Pasi Kärkkäinen" <pasik@iki.fi>]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 06:07:44PM -0700, Ritu kaur wrote:
>    Just to add, I have tried both com1 and com2 from baud rate 38400 to
>    115200 no luck. Inputs much appreciated.
>

Do you have an onboard serial port, or is at some kind of SOL?

-- Pasi
 
>    Thanks
> 
>    On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Ritu kaur <[1]ritu.kaur.us@[2]gmail.com>
>    wrote:
> 
>      Hi Pasi,
> 
>      Serial console just doesn't seem to work. In extlinux.conf file I have
> 
>      # location mbr
>      serial 0 115200
>      default xe-serial
>      prompt 1
>      timeout 50
>      ...
> 
>      label xe-serial
>        # XenCloudPlatform (Serial)
>        kernel mboot.c32
>        append /boot/xen.3.4.3.gz com1=115200,8n1 console=com1,vga
>      dom0_mem=752M lowmem_emergency_pool=1M crashkernel=64M@32M ---
>      /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32 root=LABEL=root-mhycetek ro console=tty0
>      earlyprintk=xen nomodeset xencons=hvc console=hvc0 ---
>      /boot/initrd-2.6.32.img
> 
>      From another linux m/c, I run minicom -s /dev/ttyS0, configure serial
>      port to match above config. minicom always reports serial port as
>      offline. Googled and tried another option "minicom -c on /dev/ttyS0"
>      still no luck. I have made sure from BIOS on both m/c's serial com ports
>      are enabled. Not quite sure what is wrong here. Does extlinux.conf entry
>      looks fine?
> 
>      Thanks
> 
>      On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <[3]pasik@iki.fi>
>      wrote:
> 
>        On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 02:34:39PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>        > On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 08:21:49PM -0700, Ritu kaur wrote:
>        > >    I tried another thing. After compilation,  I did "make
>        modules_install" in
>        > >    xcp ddk in order to use following command
>        > >
>        > >    mkinitrd -f ./initrd-2.6.32.img 2.6.32
>        > >
>        > >    I get following errors...
>        > >
>        > >    modinfo: could not find module ide-disk
>        > >    No module ide-disk found for kernel 2.6.32, aborting
>        > >
>        >
>        > mkinitrd reads /etc/modprobe.conf to figure out what modules should
>        be included into the initrd image.
>        >
> 
>        also I'm not sure if ide-disk is a required module for 2.6.32?
> 
>        -- Pasi
>        > >    My boot disk is ide and looking into .config didn't give me any
>        ideas as
>        > >    to what has to be enabled.
>        > >
>        >
>        > If you need some other module then fix it in /etc/modprobe.conf
>        > You need to figure out what's the correct driver for your root/boot
>        disk.
>        >
>        > -- Pasi
>        >
>        > >    Thanks
>        > >
>        > >    On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Ritu kaur
>        <[1][4]ritu.kaur.us@[2][5]gmail.com>
>        > >    wrote:
>        > >
>        > >      Thanks Pasi. I had used following command to regenerate
>        initrd image in
>        > >      xcp ddk
>        > >
>        > >      mkinitrd -f ./initrd-2.6.32.img
>         2.6.27.42-0.1.1.xs0.1.1.737.1065xen
>        > >
>        > >      it doesn't work either. While booting screen goes blank
>        immediately
>        > >      after I see
>        > >      ...
>        > >       Booting:MBI=0x00010120, entry=0x00100000
>        > >
>        > >      and next thing I see is BIOS setup, so not sure connecting
>        serial cable
>        > >      will reveal anything more. Inputs appreciated.
>        > >
>        > >      Thanks
>        > >
>        > >      On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen
>        <[3][6]pasik@iki.fi>
>        > >      wrote:
>        > >
>        > >        On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 11:28:12AM -0700, Ritu kaur wrote:
>        > >        >    Any inputs on this? I compiled xen/next kernel in
>        Debian Lenny
>        > >        and booted
>        > >        >    successfully as a domU(I am using same .config file
>        which I used
>        > >        to build
>        > >        >    under xcp-ddk). Looks to me xen/next doesn't work with
>        xcp0.1.1.
>        > >        >
>        > >
>        > >        You need to re-generate the dom0 kernel initrd to match
>        your kernel.
>        > >        You cannot use the default xcp initrd image.
>        > >
>        > >        Please provide the full serial console boot log so we can
>        troubleshoot
>        > >        it:
>        > >        [4][7]http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenSerialConsole
>        > >
>        > >        -- Pasi
>        > >
>        > >        >    Thanks
>        > >        >
>        > >        >    On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Ritu kaur
>        > >        <[1][5][8]ritu.kaur.us@[2][6][9]gmail.com>
>        > >        >    wrote:
>        > >        >
>        > >        >      Hi Pasi,
>        > >        >
>        > >        >      Messages seen with not-working case
>        > >        >
>        > >        >
>        > >
>        /***********************************************************************************
>        > >        >      kernel:/boot/xen.3.4.3.gz dom0-mem=752M
>        > >        lowmem-emergency-pool=1M
>        > >        >      crashkernel=64M@32M console=comX vga=mode-0x0311
>        > >        >      loading /boot/xen.3.4.3.gz..........
>        > >        >      Module:/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32 root=LABEL=root-mhycetek
>        ro
>        > >        Xencons=hvc
>        > >        >      console=hvc0 console=tty0 quiet vga=785 splash
>        > >        >      Loading /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32.........
>        > >        >      Module:/boot/initrd-2.6-xen.img
>        > >        >      Loading
>        > >        >
>        > >
>        /boot/initrd-2.6-xen.img...............................................................................................
>        > >        >      Booting:MBI=0x00010120, entry=0x00100000
>        > >        >
>        > >
>        ***************************************************************************************/
>        > >        >
>        > >        >      Screen is blank after these messages and system
>        returns to BIOS
>        > >        setup.
>        > >        >
>        > >        >      Messages seen with working case
>        > >        >
>        > >
>        /***********************************************************************************
>        > >        >      kernel:/boot/xen.gz dom0-mem=752M
>        lowmem-emergency-pool=1M
>        > >        >      crashkernel=64M@32M comsole=comX vga=mode-0x0311
>        > >        >      loading /boot/xen.gz..........
>        > >        >      Module:/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.xen
>        root=LABEL=root-mhycetek ro
>        > >        Xencons=hvc
>        > >        >      console=hvc0 console=tty0 quiet vga=785 splash
>        > >        >      Loading /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.xen.........
>        > >        >      Module:/boot/initrd-2.6-xen.img
>        > >        >      Loading
>        > >        >
>        > >
>        /boot/initrd-2.6-xen.img...............................................................................................
>        > >        >      Booting:MBI=0x00010120, entry=0x00100000
>        > >        >
>        > >
>        ***************************************************************************************/
>        > >        >
>        > >        >      Versions used in Non-working case
>        > >        >
>        > >        >      xen - 3.4.3/4.0.0
>        > >        >      kernel - xen/next
>        > >        >      initrd - default one which came with xcp0.1.1
>        download.(Ps
>        > >        note, in xcp
>        > >        >      ddk cannot build initrd image)
>        > >        >
>        > >        >      in Working case
>        > >        >
>        > >        >      xen - 3.4.2
>        > >        >      kernel - xcp 0.1.1
>        > >        >      initrd - one that came with xcp 0.1.1
>        > >        >
>        > >        >      Checked in my .config and changed
>        CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START to
>        > >        0x00100000
>        > >        >      and CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN=0x100000, didn't help.
>        > >        >
>        > >        >      Inputs appreciated.
>        > >        >
>        > >        >      Thanks
>        > >        >
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