Per Jessen wrote: > Jan Beulich wrote: >>>>> On 23.11.11 at 09:33, Per Jessen <[email protected]> wrote: >>> (newbie alert) >>> I'm trying to install 12.1 as a xen guest, which appears to start >>> well, but then ends in a hang after several messages: >>> >>> [ 5.343822] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found >>> [ 5.343846] EDD information not available. >>> [ 5.528399] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found >>> [ 5.528424] EDD information not available. >>> [ 5.724198] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found >>> [ 5.724223] EDD information not available. >>> [ 5.907920] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found >>> [ 5.907947] EDD information not available. >>> [ 6.105002] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found >>> [ 6.105026] EDD information not available. >>> [ 6.288697] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found >>> [ 6.288721] EDD information not available. >> >> I doubt these messages are related to the hang, but just in case they >> are - you'd want to blacklist edd.ko (or eliminate whatever leads to >> it getting loaded; this happening multiple times makes me uncertain >> where to point you, normally I would have told you to edit >> INITRD_MODULES in /etc/sysconfig/kernel and re-create the initrd). > > Hi Jan > > I used brokenmodules=edd, which gave an interesting result - on the > console, I see one instance of: > > [ 1.382786] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found > [ 1.382815] EDD information not available. > > but the system still ends up hanging. Without blacklisting 'edd', I > get 20-30 repeats of the above, but I agree, it's not likely to be > causing the hangup. > > Ah well, I'll keep looking.
Okay, I'm making a little progress - I added "xencons=tty" to the command line, and the guest now continues wtih dhcp. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (3.4°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]
