Re: xm create failure

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 09:56:56AM +0200, Mihai Chelaru wrote:
> On Monday 10 March 2008 17:45:55 Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > I've had issues on the 2950 with 4G RAM. I had to restrict the memory
> > to about 3GB via xen boot line (I think it's mem=3092M, or something
> > like that) to have domUs working. I assumed it was an issue with the
> > 2950's bios, because I didn't have this problem with a supermicro
> > server with also 4GB RAM, and the same CPUs.
> 
> Yay, thanks ! mem=3092M solved it, indeed. But the question is: why 
> is -current DOMU kernel working ?

-current uses a different (and I think more correct) bootstrap code.
Maybe it's just lucky enough to not hit the problem, maybe the new code
really fixes a bug with the old one ...

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