[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#658606: Xen 4.0 dom0 boot hangs "Waiting for /dev to be populated"

[Owen Dunn]

Package: xen-hypervisor-4.0-amd64
Version: 4.0.1-4

After an upgrade to squeeze I've installed Xen 4.0, but when trying to 
boot the Xen kernel the boot freezes at the message:

Waiting for /dev to be fully populated...

Nothing further usually [*] appears after this message, and after a short 
time the screen becomes blank (and power saves, as if there is no signal) 
and there appears to be no system activity: hard drive LEDs are inactive 
and there's no network traffic.

[*] Sometimes a subsequent message appears about the pcspkr driver.

The caps lock LED on the keyboard does respond to pressing the Caps Lock 
key.


The system is a Xeon E5502 in an Intel S5520SC Workstation Board.  Booting 
an ordinary amd64 kernel works normally.

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