Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-virtual (6 mails)

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

> > > On 23.11.11 at 10:22, Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Per Jessen wrote:
>
> > Jan Beulich wrote:
> > > > > > On 23.11.11 at 09:33, Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > (newbie alert)
> > > > I'm trying to install 12.1 as a xen guest, which appears to start
> > > > well, but then ends in a hang after several messages:
> > > >
> > > > [    5.343822] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
> > > > [    5.343846] EDD information not available.
> > > > [    5.528399] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
> > > > [    5.528424] EDD information not available.
> > > > [    5.724198] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
> > > > [    5.724223] EDD information not available.
> > > > [    5.907920] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
> > > > [    5.907947] EDD information not available.
> > > > [    6.105002] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
> > > > [    6.105026] EDD information not available.
> > > > [    6.288697] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
> > > > [    6.288721] EDD information not available.
> > >
> > > I doubt these messages are related to the hang, but just in case they
> > > are - you'd want to blacklist edd.ko (or eliminate whatever leads to
> > > it getting loaded; this happening multiple times makes me uncertain
> > > where to point you, normally I would have told you to edit
> > > INITRD_MODULES in /etc/sysconfig/kernel and re-create the initrd).
> >
> > Hi Jan
> >
> > I used brokenmodules=edd, which gave an interesting result - on the
> > console, I see one instance of:
> >
> > [    1.382786] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
> > [    1.382815] EDD information not available.
> >
> > but the system still ends up hanging.  Without blacklisting 'edd', I
> > get 20-30 repeats of the above, but I agree, it's not likely to be
> > causing the hangup.
> >
> > Ah well, I'll keep looking.
>
> Okay, I'm making a little progress - I added "xencons=tty" to the
> command line, and the guest now continues wtih dhcp.

Which means the system didn't really hang, you just didn't see it make
progress anymore.

Jan

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