Stuck on blank screen after booting Xen

Akshay Jaggi jaggi at freebsd.org
Thu May 17 17:42:09 UTC 2018


I guess this is expected behaviour. My knowledge is two years old. But
iirc, Dom0/Xen sent output over serial.

On Thu 17 May, 2018, 6:35 PM Pratyush Yadav, <pratiy0100 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to boot Xen on my Laptop. FreeBSD without Xen boots fine
> but when I install Xen and reboot, it gets to the boot loader screen,
> prints some Xen messages and then stops on a blank screen.
>
> I can't provide the logs as I never got the chance to look at them,
> they go by very fast. All I remember is seeing some dots in a line and
> then the blank screen.
>
> I am running it on a laptop with Intel i7 4710HQ processor. Also, my
> FreeBSD is installed in BIOS mode on my USB drive. Does Xen not
> support boot from USB? Is there any other reason its getting stuck?
> The config files I pretty much copied exactly from the FreeBSD as a
> Xen host wiki page [0].
>
> Regards,
> Pratyush Yadav
>
> [0] https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/virtualization-host-xen.html
>


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