[TriLUG] Xen and FC5

[Jason Tower]

what kernel are you booting?  i've heard the latest ones have lots of 
problems, eariler kernels work much better.

J.C. Jones wrote:
> All,
> 
> The actual hang line is " making device-mapper control mode "
> 
> More details.
> Initially, I was getting a kernel panic message, I added in a line at boot
> swiotlb=force
> With this in the grub, it would get to "making device-mapper control 
> mode", pause for short period then show call trace lines and some of 
> data. It would then lockup.
> 
> Now I have added
> iommu=force
> prior to the swiotlb line in grub
> 
> No progress past "making device - mapper control mode" line, no extra 
> call trace lines, etc -- just a blinking cursor.
> repeating the boot after doing crtl-alt-del gives me the same thing, but 
> with call trace lines, etc
> 
> After a couple more boots, process goes to same point, waits about 30 
> seconds, then reboots??
> 
> jcj
> 
> J.C. Jones wrote:
> 
>> All,
>>
>> Any suggestions for installing xen to FC5 and getting it to work? I 
>> followed the FC5 quickstart for Xen, but when I reboot using xen0 
>> kernel, it gets to something called control mapper, pauses a long 
>> time, then a list of call trace lines appear, after which it appears 
>> to lock up.
>>
>> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> jcj
>>