[Fedora-xen] F17 Kernel Badness

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk]

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:04:34PM -0500, Sean McNamara wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My Fedora 17 3.3-rc4.git1 kernel boots on bare metal, but it dies very
> early on in the boot process when loading on top of Xen. It's got
> CONFIG_XEN_DOM0=y and all the other CONFIG_XEN* options are either "y"
> or "m". Linux panics with
> 
> init[1] trap invalid opcode ip:7f99a072ff15 sp:7fffbf2a5088 error :0
> in libc-2.15.so[7f99a05f8000+1ac000]
> init used greatest stack depth: 2392 bytes left
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

Hm, that is new. It looks like init dies and that stops the bootup process.
But I am not sure what would be happening to cause it.
Is this a 32-bit install or 64-bit?

> 
> The kernel itself seems able to execute on top of Xen because I see a
> very normal-looking Xen init, then the screen blanks, then Linux
> initializes and starts executing early boot, stuff like the USB stack
> and SATA starts to come up, and then it tries to run the init process
> in userspace and it all comes crashing down.
> 
> This is on Sandy Bridge hardware with all the CPU optional instruction
> sets enabled.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Sean
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