> I was able to successfully boot into regular Solaris, but not into xVM > Solaris. Meaning, after highlighting the xVM menu item and pressing enter, > the screen turns black, as if about to book, then a quick burst of text > pops up and disappears (so fast that you cannot see it), and then the > screen goes blank again. And thats the end - I have to power cycle. > > Is there any way to debug this?
Yes. Assuming this is a panic from the Solaris kernel: In the GRUB menu, edit the "Solaris xVM" boot entry, append options " -kv" at the end of the "module$ /platform/i86xpv/kernel/$ISADIR/unix /platform/i86xpv/kernel/$ISADIR/unix" line, and boot the modified xVM entry. Now the system should stop in the kernel debugger if we do get a kernel panic. Before it stops in the debugger, a panic message is printed, cpu registers are dumped and a stack backtrace is printed. Instead of using kernel options "-kv" you can also try "-kdv". In this case it stops in the debugger before starting the Solaris kernel. To start the kernel use the kmdb command "::cont" (or ":c") This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ xen-discuss mailing list [email protected]
