On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 01:03:51AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 12:45:59PM +1000, Langdon Stevenson wrote: > > Hi Daniel > > > > Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > >On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 11:57:07AM +1000, Langdon Stevenson wrote: > > >>I have just completed a clean install of FC7 test 4 on a custom built > > >>machine: > > >> > > >>MB: Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6 > > >>CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 > > >>Video: Asus EN7900GS > > >>RAM: Veritech DDR2 800 1 Gig x 2 > > >>HD: Pair of Maxtor 120 Gig SATA drives running as a mirrored RAID array > > >>through the hardware controller on the motherboard > > >> > > >>The install ran fine, but when I boot the Fedora xen kernel > > >>(2.6.20-2925.5.fc7xen) it crashes during the boot process. > > >> > > >>If I boot "Fedora base (2.6.20-1.3104.fc7)", then it boots fine. > > >> > > >>When booting the Fedora xen kernel the last output in the console is: > > >> > > >>Kernel panic: Not syncing - Aiee, killing interupt handler! > > >> > > >> > > >>I have seen a thread in this list talking about problems with the > > >>2.6.20-2925.5.fc7xen kernel. Can anyone suggest what I may be able to > > >>do to work around this problem? Is there a different xen kernel that I > > >>could be using with FC7? If so, where would I get it from? > > > > > >You don't mention what architecture you're installing ? i686 or x86_64 ? > > >We just built a new kernel into rawhide which 2.6.20-2925.7.fc7xen which > > >fixes a bunch of things, including checksum corruption in networking and > > >SMP support in 64-bit. This still has a major outstanding problem which > > >affects many 32-bit machines though - debugging is ongoing & trying to > > >get it resolved before F7 GA. So anyway, if you're using the 32-bit > > >kernel I imagine you've hit the known panic problems we're investigating. > > > > Sorry, should have mentioned, it is i686. So as you say I am hitting > > the known panic problems. > > > > Thanks for the explanation, I guess that I will put this aside until you > > get the new kernel running for F7 GA. > > FYI, we think we've got the problem fixed & have a new build available. > If anyone is running rawhide with Xen and seeing crashes/hangs/wierd > behaviour, please give the 2.6.20-2925.8.fc7 kernel a try. Its not in > rawhide YUM repos yet, but you can it from Koji > > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel-xen-2.6/2.6.20/2925.8.fc7/ > > > NB. this requires xen-3.1.0-0.rc7.1.fc7 userspace. > Hi! Does this fix https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=234008 ? If it does, plans to fix it for fc5/fc6? Thanks! -- Pasi > Dan. > -- > |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| > |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| > |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| > |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| > -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
