Re: PAE/non-PAE Xen kernel

[Christoph Egger <Christoph_Egger%gmx.de@localhost>]

On 25.12.09 21:30, Étienne wrote:
> Hello list, and merry Christmas,
> 
> I'm trying to set up a Dom0 host with NetBSD-5.0.1 and Xen from the
> 2009Q3 pkgsrc. The machine is an "old" AMD Athlon, and while booting I
> get a panic from Xen (that I have just 5 sec to read) about a mismatch
> between Xen kernel and Dom0 kernel on PAE capabilities ? It looks like
> the one described there:
> http://old.nabble.com/Problem-with-PAE-less-processor-in-xen-3.1.0-td15396918.html
> 
> If I get it right, I need to build a Xen kernel without PAE support.
> How do I do that in pkgsrc ? And by the way, is there any way to keep
> Xen from rebooting at this point so you can read what exactly happens ?

Pass 'noreboot' to the xen kernel boot option.

Christoph