I'm trying to get Xenserver 5.5 running on a spare computer here, hardware specs:
Intel Q6600, 4GB Ram, and Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R motherboard
Xenserver itself installs fine onto a 150GB sata hdd, however it fails to boot whatsoever, giving this garbled mess: http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/9918/biosi.jpg it's not frozen because if I press enter it just prints a different garble and it also says "could not find kernel image".
The strangest thing is if I put that hdd in my desktop and assign it to a VMWare desktop vm (under the ESX profile no less) it boots perfectly… leading me to believe there are no problems with the install or the hdd itself.
From what I can tell the error seems to be occuring completely seperately to Xenserver, in the bootloader extlinux?. If there was a motherboard compatibility issue I would think it would also have manifested during installation, and the fact the problem seems to be with the booting into Xen makes me doubt this.
Any ideas guys?
(I'm using Xen because it can do PCI passthrough without VT-d.)
Best Answer
Yes, it seems that your boot-loader is unable to get the kernel up and running.
Did you install it using VMWare or did you install it using the actual hardware setup? If you did the former, that might explain it because your hardware setup is probably different from the VMWare virtual hardware.
On another note, do not confuse Xen with XenServer. XenServer is a custom commercial product. You may find it difficult to do PCI pass-through.