Bug#983357: #983357: Netinst crashes xen domU when loading kernel
affects 983357 + debian-installer severify 983357 serious thanks It appears that the root cause of this bug has been reported upstream here: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207695 It seems that there is an error trying to udev trigger the Xen virtual keyboard, and this causes start-udev to bail out, which causes init to bail out and the kernel to panic. Removing the set -e from start-udev appears to be a viable workaround that d-i might want to consider.
Bug#983357: #983357: Netinst crashes xen domU when loading kernel
reopen 983357 thanks I don't know what happened, but it is back to not working, even with the install.amd/xen/ kernel. Phillip Susi writes: > The netinst image I had contained the -3 kernel. I rebuit the image > with the current -6 kernel and it worked. I downloaded the latest > weekly netinst iso and it already contains the -6 kernel, so it appears > that this has been fixed in -4, -5, or -6.
Bug#983357: #983357: Netinst crashes xen domU when loading kernel
reassign 983357 linux severity grave thanks I rebuilt the iso using the version of isolinux from stable and it still crashed the domU. When I rebuilt it using the vmlinux and initrd.gz from the stable iso, it successfully boots, so it appears to be caused by the kernel. Interestingly, there appears to be a different kernel build just for use under xen in install.amd/xen and using that one also works. Maybe we need a menu option in isolinux to load that kernel instead?
