From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 2 23:35:07 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 152021065674 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2010 23:35:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from k@kevinkevin.com) Received: from mail-gw0-f54.google.com (mail-gw0-f54.google.com [74.125.83.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CECEB8FC0A for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2010 23:35:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gwaa20 with SMTP id a20so490973gwa.13 for ; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:35:01 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.150.184.14 with SMTP id h14mr246181ybf.51.1267572901244; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:35:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from kkPC (76-10-166-187.dsl.teksavvy.com [76.10.166.187]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 21sm4553585iwn.7.2010.03.02.15.34.59 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:35:00 -0800 (PST) From: "kevin" To: Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 18:34:36 -0500 Message-ID: <01c901caba60$ecaeb5e0$c60c21a0$@com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 12.0 thread-index: Acq6YOuvlOU12oUuS4a0fBMjUy1Q1A== Content-Language: en-us Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: XEN HVM + FreeBSD = BTX Halted? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:35:07 -0000 Hello, I have been trying to install a FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE or FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE implementation. After finally getting the XEN HVM instance to see the boot disk , I am now seeing "BTX Halted" error messages right when it tries to boot. I did some research and this is a known issue with FreeBSD / XEN. I'm curious if anyone has encountered this issue and if there is a workaround available? Apparently this problem was reported years ago, however I'm not certain if its related, or this is a new issue, or I am not aware of a workaround. Thanks! References : http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-bugs/2009-07/msg00000.html http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=622