[Fedora-xen] Boot fails with 2.6.20-2925.5.fc7xen

[Daniel P. Berrange]

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.

Regards,
Dan.
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