>>> On 23.11.11 at 10:22, Per Jessen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Which means the system didn't really hang, you just didn't see it make progress anymore. Jan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]
