centos 4 bhyve guest

[Peter Grehan]

> I believe only CentOS-6.x and newer are currently supported.  I am in a
> similar predicament where I'd like to port some development CentOS5.x
> systems and am unable to.

  With CentOS 5.11 it's possible to get some early kernel output by 
setting the "earlyprintk=serial" kernel command-line option. But, this 
disappears when the switchover to the main console happens.

> I'd be keen to learn what issues exist preventing this and see if I can
> help in any way to get older CentOS systems supported.

  I suspect that Centos 5 does boot, but without console output there's 
not much that can be done :( It might need some Linux kernel builds and 
insertion of debug to work out why the console settings from grub aren't 
being used.

later,

Peter.