[Pkg-xen-devel] Boot process hangs then reboots when using Xen + Linux 3.2

Bastian Blank waldi at debian.org
Thu Mar 1 15:53:52 UTC 2012


On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 06:02:15PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> On 03/01/2012 04:55 PM, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > Broken ACPI table, aka firmware bug.
> Do you then suggest I try upgrading my BIOS? It's the one providing the
> ACPI tables, right?

Yes.

>                     Any clue why I don't see crashes without Xen, with a
> 64 bits kernel, or with earlier versions of Linux (eg: 3.1 for example)?

xen/i386 uses a different memory model to anything else, this may be a
problem.

>      Then I just tried upgrading today to 3.2.7-1, and it seems there's
> the exact same issue (I didn't care doing a serial dump, but I can if
> you wish).

The stack trace and the surrounding would be nice, there are some weird
inconsistences.

Bastian

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