Re: [Xen-devel] Fwd: Xen 4.3 Netbsd

[Miguel Clara <miguelmclara%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hum... I was looking into how to connect to the serial console, but I
don't have the cable, also my laptop doesn't have the serial port, so
I guess I will need some adapter, maybe USB... in any case it would be
nice if someone else could test this!

Thanks

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Roger Pau Monné 
<roger.pau%citrix.com@localhost> wrote:
> On 23/05/13 13:09, Miguel Clara wrote:
>> I'm testing xen 4.3 on netbsd and I was able to build the kernel and
>> tools successfully (after 2 minor fixes see more here:
>> http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2013-05/msg01482.html), I
>> was also able to install the tools.
>>
>> However I'm getting a strange problem and I'm not sure even how to debug 
>> it...
>>
>> While booting with:
>>
>> menu=NetBSD Xen:load /netbsd.xen console=pc;multiboot /xen.gz dom0_mem=256M
>>
>> I get a very stange screen with something like:
>>
>> 08cF60   0000000000000000000d43...... (see attached screenshot, I have
>> no other way to "copy it form the console")
>>
>> Seems to be hexa code.... no panic, no reboot, my guess is that the
>> problem is wiht the Dom0 kernel, but this was the one I was using for
>> xen-4.1 and xen-4.2, I was downloaded a new file
>> (ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-6.1/amd64/binary/kernel/netbsd-XEN3_DOM0.gz)
>> I wonder if this is not compatible with xen-4.3.
>>
>> I never saw this kind of error, I wonder if you add any luck booting?
>>
>> I've tried with netbsd 6.0.1 and them upgrade to 6.1, and get the same 
>> result!
>
> You will have to setup a serial console in order to obtain a log,
> without that it is impossible to say what's going on.
>