Boot from CD-ROM in XEN

Eygene Ryabinkin rea-fbsd at codelabs.ru
Wed Nov 19 04:41:34 PST 2008


Alex, good day.

Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 01:28:15PM +0300, Alex Keda wrote:
> I replace default GENERIC kernel on my XEN kernel in FreeBSD 
> installation CD-ROM (i386 7.0-RELEASE)
> But, I cannot boot in XEN - I see fast run "BTX halted" and many other 
> debugging info.

You should use real-mode BTX.  It was committed to RELENG_7 at
revision 1.44.2.1 of
  http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/boot/i386/btx/btx/btx.S

Don't know if you'll be able to use 7.1-BETA2 images, but probably yes:
they were created after the merge of real-mode BTX.
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