Can't boot LiveCD Boot on MS Virtual Server 2005 R2

[Jon Steer]

My LiveCD boot is hanging when booting from MS Virtual Server 2005 R2.

F6 based LiveCD's worked fine.

It hangs at
Uncompressing Linux.. Ok, booting the kernel.

Since the box is running on a Dell Dual Core box, I tried all the
maxcpu suggestions but no joy.

Any ideas? Any ideas on what I can enable to get some tracing?

thanks,
jon

[Douglas McClendon]

Jon Steer wrote:
> My LiveCD boot is hanging when booting from MS Virtual Server 2005 R2.
>
> F6 based LiveCD's worked fine.
>
> It hangs at
> Uncompressing Linux.. Ok, booting the kernel.
>
> Since the box is running on a Dell Dual Core box, I tried all the
> maxcpu suggestions but no joy.
>
> Any ideas? Any ideas on what I can enable to get some tracing?

Passing 'verbose' and not 'quiet' on the kernel command line will get 
more info for debugging.  (press tab at isolinux boot choice screen, 
which I assume should work from MSVS though I've never used MSVS myself).

If you've already tried that, the only other idea I have is that qemu 
had a bug with large initramfss, though I can't really imagine that info 
will help your situation in any way.

Regards,

-dmc