[vserver] 2.6.18-5 debian vserver doesn't boot on Xeon+Intel Server Board

From: Konstantinos Pachopoulos <kostaspaxos_at_yahoo.gr>
Date: Mon 01 Oct 2007 - 15:25:42 BST
Message-ID: <692556.21950.qm@web25515.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

Hi,
i have a Xeon on an Intel SE7520BD2 board. The
motherboard has EFI -the "next generation BIOS...",
however EFI has legacy support for the classical
bootloaders and the MBRs. I have confirmed this by
sometimes getting Grub errors, when editing the
configuration file; that means that Grub is executed.

I have installed Debian Etch 2.6.18-5-amd64 on
/dev/sda or the first SCSI drive otherwise (on an
Adaptec card) and runs OK. The only problem is that
the booting output (the dmesg output) cannot be seen
in the beginning -blank screen; i only see the last
lines and the line asking for the username. I do not
know why this happens.
 
I then installed 2.6.18-5-vserver-amd64 -did "apt-get
install vserver-utils linux-image-2.6.18-5
-vserver-amd64"- on the same drive, the grub
configuration file (menu.lst) got automatically
updated, i edited the conf file changing the default
booting kernel to the vserver one and i rebooted the
system. After rebooting i ended up waiting on a blank
screen. I am still waiting...

I suspect it has to do with missing modules, SCSI,
vserver kernel constraints, etc. In which way is the
default vserver kernel different than the non-vserver
one? Will i have to create an image on my own?

I am in deep water; any ideas appreciated!

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