[Fedora-xen] Boot errors

[M A Young]

On Sat, 24 Mar 2012, Chris Jones wrote:

> I installed Fedora 16 and then ran:
> sudo yum install xen
> 
> Xen installed without errors and I rebooted. In the Grub2 list I selected
> Xen 4.1.2 and then selected the option: 
> 
> Fedora Linux, with Xen 4.1.2 and Linux 3.3.0-4.fc16.x86_64
> 
> The boot process starts (i notice that loading ramdisk is very short) and
> then shortly thereafter the boot fails and the system reboots without any
> error. 

Recent F16 kernels are broken when running as dom0. 3.2.9-1 was the last 
kernel that worked. 3.2.9-2 was broken with Bug 802407
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=802407
though this is now fixed. Unfortunately everything after 3.2.9-4 is broken 
with Bug 804347
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804347
though I did do a scratch build to try a proposed fix which is 
(temporarily) at
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=3923761
which seems to work for me though there are weird things going on with the 
3.3 kernels, see Bug 806107
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=806107
which might cause you problems with this kernel as well.

 	Michael Young