Re: [Xen-devel] Follow-up

[Ian P. <Ian...@cl...>]

> > I am having trouble with the two Xandros distros.  The 2.6.8.1-xenU kernel
> > boots to this point:
> > 
> > -----
> > Freeing unused kernel memory: 92k freed
> > Warning: unable to open an initial console.
> > ioperm not fully supported - set iopl to 3
> > ------
> It may be that Xandros' init program depends on being able to access
> some piece of hardware that is inaccessible in an unprivileged
> domain. We had a report that Gentoo's init program has problems too,
> although that was a long while ago.

I wander if we'd learn anything by starting /sbin/init under
strace ?

I've never tried this before, but it might be worth a try.

add "init=/linuxrc" on the command line, then create a shell
script that does "strace /sbin/init". You might have to redirect
stderr to stdout.

Dropping down an /sbin/init from Debian/RedHat/SuSE might be
interesting too.

Ian