On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, Cihula, Joseph wrote:

> The problem is that your kernel does not have VT-d (Intel's IOMMU) support in 
> it.  So even though you specify 'intel_iommu=on' in the command line, it gets 
> ignored.  You can verify if your .config has CONFIG_DMAR set (which we will 
> add as a dependency in the next patch update).
>
> The issue is that tboot is DMA protecting memory and without VT-d support the 
> kernel never un-protects it.  So all DMA fails.
>
> Joe

That was it! I did not have CONFIG_DMAR set, so I set it, recompiled, and 
now booting proceeds normally. Thank you so much for your help!

-- Alana

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