Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 02:37:29PM +0100, Robin Bowes wrote: >> It boots into the FC7 install but only gets as far as: >> >> Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 938k >> >> Then it hangs. > > It hasn't hung - its merely sending console output somewhere you can't > see it. Basically its supposed to send it to both text console (xvc) > and the grpahical console, but only sends it to the latter. Since you > used --nographics, you thus see nothing. > > IIRC, you can add this arg to virt-install to workaround it: > > -x "console=xvc0" OK, I'm now trying the same install on a different FC6 box: Linux slippy.robinbowes.com 2.6.20-1.2952.fc6xen #1 SMP Wed May 16 19:19:04 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux i.e. this is i386 not x86_64 I've used this command to start the install: virt-install --nographics --name=test --file=/dev/vg_host/lv_test --ram=512 --location=http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/7/Fedora/i386/os/ --extra-args="ip=192.168.1.110 netmask=255.255.255.0 gateway=192.168.1.1 dns=192.168.1.60 ks=http://dev.robinbowes.com/kickstart/misc/test-FC7.cfg console=xvc0" I now get this output: ========================================================= [ INFO: possible irq lock inversion dependency detected ] 2.6.20-2925.9.fc7xen #1 --------------------------------------------------------- loader/206 just changed the state of lock: (&np->rx_lock){-...}, at: [<e115da6c>] network_open+0x28/0x83 [xennet] but this lock was taken by another, hard-irq-safe lock in the past: (&np->tx_lock){+...} ... plus a load of further memory information. Installation seems to continue, but then stops. The last output seems to be: eth0: no IPv6 routers present I don't see anything in the logs. Any more ideas? R. -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
