Re: Create a virtualdisk.

[Stephen Borrill <netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost>]

On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > I had the same, -current (47 days ago. 4.99.3?) with Xen3. The Dom0 would
> > lock solid at seemingly random points during boot (during the time when
> > rc.d scripts were running, i.e. after the kernel messages and devices were
> > probed). Booting a standard GENERIC worked fine, but as soon as I ran it
> > as a Dom0 it would wedge. As I was sitting in a co-lo at the time and
> > needed the machine running ASAP, I had to give up and put on 3.1_STABLE
> > and Xen2. I didn't have time to do any more investigation, but it's
> > probably worth a data point.
>
> What sort of hardware is it ?

IBM x305. Single 2GHz P4, 1280MB. 3.1_STABLE dmesg available if necessary.

> Did you try enabling/disabling ACPI ?

No, I didn't. Unfortunately, I'm in no position to try at the moment.

> I had this issue at one time on a SMP motherboard, before I added ACPI
> support for Xen3 in NetBSD

It's not SMP, would that make a difference?

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Stephen