I tweaked a couple of configuration settings in my previous kernel to get an i686 kernel to build (links below). I tried it and found two main problems; * the ATA driver is serious enough in this case to stop disk access * when I booted off a USB image logging to a serial console, it booted eventually, and from the way the cursor responded to the keyboard, I think there was a login session on the monitor, but everything except the cursor was blank (as if there was black text on a black screen), which might point to an issue with the frame buffer console drivers.
I am also told that xend doesn't start for my kernels. This may be a real problem, or it may be necessary to load the right modules before it will start.
Michael Young
http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/~may/xen/kernel-2.6.29-0.41.rc2.pvops2342.2.fc10.sr... http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/~may/xen/kernel-PAE-2.6.29-0.41.rc2.pvops2342.2.fc1... http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/~may/xen/kernel-firmware-2.6.29-0.41.rc2.pvops2342....