Re: [XenPPC] boot failure with large dom0

2007-02-07 Thread Jerone Young
I'll give it a try. On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 11:59 -0600, Hollis Blanchard wrote: I use a vmlinux as dom0, but it's a stripped vmlinux. A vmlinux with full debug symbols is 55MB here, which probably explains this problem. Could you see how easy it would be to catch this problem at runtime and

Re: [XenPPC] boot failure with large dom0

2007-02-07 Thread Hollis Blanchard
If the problem were that dom0 was only partially transferred, we would see dom0 start to boot and fail. The boot_of_alloc_init message happens way before that point. The early boot code only tracks the first 32M of memory, and I believe that is the problem here: we're overflowing the bitmap we're

Re: [XenPPC] boot failure with large dom0

2007-02-07 Thread Jimi Xenidis
On Feb 7, 2007, at 5:38 PM, Hollis Blanchard wrote: If the problem were that dom0 was only partially transferred, we would see dom0 start to boot and fail. The boot_of_alloc_init message happens way before that point. Thats not really true, dom0 is in .data, there are actually