[Bug 795717] Re: 32bit rhel and centos 5.(5|6) hangs on boot on natty

[gdahlman]

I tried many ISO's and the systems that worked before I did a dist
upgrade failed to boot also

I just tried it with 2 cpu's and 2GB of ram and it still failed.

I do not get to a point where I can get dmesg output but I have included
a screenshot

I have reproduced this issue on a Dell R710, 2950 and R610.

I installed with the 11.04 Server ISO image.

Re-installing 10.10 server allowed the guests to boot as did dropping
the vcpu number down to 1

Here are the ISO images I was using for the guests.

root at usmirror001:/export/isos/Operating_Systems/Linux# isoinfo -d -i CentOS-5.5-i386-bin-DVD.iso
CD-ROM is in ISO 9660 format
System id: LINUX
Volume id: CentOS_5.5_Final
Volume set id: 
Publisher id: CentOS Project
Data preparer id: CentOS
Application id: CentOS_5.5_Final
Copyright File id: 
Abstract File id: 
Bibliographic File id: 
Volume set size is: 1
Volume set sequence number is: 1
Logical block size is: 2048
Volume size is: 2043515
El Torito VD version 1 found, boot catalog is in sector 406
Joliet with UCS level 3 found
Rock Ridge signatures version 1 found
Eltorito validation header:
    Hid 1
    Arch 0 (x86)
    ID 'CentOS Project'
    Key 55 AA
    Eltorito defaultboot header:
        Bootid 88 (bootable)
        Boot media 0 (No Emulation Boot)
        Load segment 0
        Sys type 0
        Nsect 4
        Bootoff 197 407

root at usmirror001:/export/isos/Operating_Systems/Linux# isoinfo -d -i CentOS-5.6-i386-LiveCD.iso 
CD-ROM is in ISO 9660 format
System id: LINUX
Volume id: CentOS-5.6-i386-LiveCD
Volume set id: 
Publisher id: 
Data preparer id: 
Application id: MKISOFS ISO 9660/HFS FILESYSTEM BUILDER & CDRECORD CD-R/DVD CREATOR (C) 1993 E.YOUNGDALE (C) 1997 J.PEARSON/J.SCHILLING
Copyright File id: 
Abstract File id: 
Bibliographic File id: 
Volume set size is: 1
Volume set sequence number is: 1
Logical block size is: 2048
Volume size is: 354800
El Torito VD version 1 found, boot catalog is in sector 36
Joliet with UCS level 3 found
Rock Ridge signatures version 1 found
Eltorito validation header:
    Hid 1
    Arch 0 (x86)
    ID ''
    Key 55 AA
    Eltorito defaultboot header:
        Bootid 88 (bootable)
        Boot media 0 (No Emulation Boot)
        Load segment 0
        Sys type 0
        Nsect 4
        Bootoff 25 37

** Attachment added: "Screen capture of where it gets stuck"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu-kvm/+bug/795717/+attachment/2179933/+files/rhel3crash.png

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