when you make ipxe, tell it to throw in all the debugs possible... basically debug=$(find src -name '*.c' | sed 's/\.c$//)
actually, minus the last comma, but i am too lazy to write something better right now :) -Alessandro- Here i am, A young man, A crashing computer program, Here is a pen, write out my name... (from: The Servant - Orchestra) On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 14:31, Charles Watt <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes. This comes off a VM running on a Xen 3.1.2 system from about 2007. > I've tested with Xen 3.4.3, and 4.1.1 and do not have this issue. > Unfortunately, the infrastructure that I need to deploy is on the older > system and it will not be upgraded any time soon. > > Line 1 of the main program prints the "initialising devices ..." message, > which doesn't get displayed. So I'm guessing that either: > > 1) the older IsoLinux has trouble and doesn't really load ipxe.krn, or > 2) there is something in the older Xen's emulation of the console that is > causing a problem. > > In either case it doesn't look like I'll get any debugging information > from the console. > > >> On 10/3/2011 11:48, Charles Watt wrote: >> > I've pulled and built the top of the tree and tested the ipxe.iso on >> > numerous physical servers, VMware, KVM, HyperV, and Citrix XenServer, >> > all with success. But when booted on an OpenSource Xen VM (in KVM >> > mode) it appears to hang at the "Loading ipxe.krn .......... Ready." >> > line (see attached image). Then after a few seconds the VM halts. >> > >> > Can anyone give me some suggestions on where to look? What modules >> > should I recompile with DEBUG? >> >> That message is from Syslinux (ISOLINUX, specifically). It looks like >> your Syslinux is pretty old. Would you consider upgrading it? >> >> - Shao Miller > > ________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > ipxe-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo/ipxe-devel > > _______________________________________________ ipxe-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo/ipxe-devel
