[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#479197: xen-hypervisor-3.2-1-amd64: hypervisor fails to load dom0 ("not an ELF binary")

[James Youngman]

Package: xen-hypervisor-3.2-1-amd64
Version: 3.2.0-5
Severity: important


The hypervisor loads OK but then fails to load my dom0 kernel.  I get
an erorr message "not an ELF binary" followed after 5s by a hypervisor
reboot.

/boot/grub/grub.cfg contains:

menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, Xen 3.2-1-amd64, Linux
2.6.22-3-vserver-amd64 (single-user mode)" {
        set root=(hd0,1)
        multiboot (hd0,1)/xen-3.2-1-amd64.gz
        module  (hd0,1)/vmlinuz-2.6.22-3-vserver-amd64
root=/dev/mapper/mirror_a-root_fs ro single
        module  (hd0,1)/initrd.img-2.6.22-3-vserver-amd64
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, Xen 3.2-1-amd64, Linux 2.6.22-3-vserver-amd64 " {
        set root=(hd0,1)
        multiboot (hd0,1)/xen-3.2-1-amd64.gz
        module  (hd0,1)/vmlinuz-2.6.22-3-vserver-amd64
root=/dev/mapper/mirror_a-root_fs ro
        module  (hd0,1)/initrd.img-2.6.22-3-vserver-amd64
}


On the other hand, this boot configuration works, though without the
hypervisor, Xen is of course not running:


menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.22-3-vserver-amd64 (single-user mode)" {
        linux   (hd0,1)/vmlinuz-2.6.22-3-vserver-amd64
root=/dev/mapper/mirror_a-root_fs ro single
        initrd  (hd0,1)/initrd.img-2.6.22-3-vserver-amd64
}

The kernels are from the "linux-image-2.6.22-3-vserver-amd64" package:


$ COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l linux-image-2.6.22-3-vserver-amd64
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                                         Version
                       Description
+++-============================================-============================================-========================================================================================================
ii  linux-image-2.6.22-3-vserver-amd64           2.6.22-6.lenny1
                       Linux 2.6.22 image on AMD64



-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-vserver-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

xen-hypervisor-3.2-1-amd64 depends on no packages.

Versions of packages xen-hypervisor-3.2-1-amd64 recommends:
ii  xen-utils-3.2-1               3.2.0-5    XEN administrative tools

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