It is a USB keyboard. Yes I can get a serial console working. 
I will follow your advise about xend and see how it goes.
Thanks
Aravindh
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Pratt [mailto:m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2005 5:41 AM
> To: Puthiyaparambil, Aravindh; Jerone Young
> Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Magolan, John F; Nakajima, Jun;
> Subrahmanian, Raj; Davis, Jason; Vessey, Bruce A;
ian.pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] Xen on ES7000 x86_64 take 2
>
> > Thanks for the patch. That's fixed the problem. Dom0 boots up
> > now. But keyboard does not work on the console.
>
> Odd. USB or PS/2?
> Can you get a serial line on the box and configure serial console?
>
> > But I am able
> > to ssh into the system. I am also unable to bring up xend.
> > Trying to bring up xend causes the system to freeze up and
> > lose network connectivity. I don't see any messages on the
> > serial console at this point.
> >
> > Any ideas on how to debug this?
>
> stop xend from bringing the bridge up by editing xend-config.sxp to
> remove the 'network' line.
>
> I expect xend will then start OK, but you'll need to configure the
> bridge etc manually via the serial console.
>
> The whole process of moving IP addresses between devices is fraught.
Its
> much better to configure it from boot using vendor scripts than to
rely
> on /etc/xen/scripts/network.
>
> Ian
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