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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Stuart Sheldon <stu@actusa.net>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug in reboot when using scsi or virtio
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:06:02 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48B91B8A.1010007@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48B8436E.7090900@actusa.net>

Stuart Sheldon wrote:
> Guest boots and runs fine, but does not see boot device on guest reboot
> if if=scsi or if=virtio is used.
>
> Boot Screen after reboot:
> Booting from Hard Disk...
> Boot from Hard Disk failed: could not read boot disk
> ... More failed boot devices that shouldn't boot anyway...
> FATAL: No bootable device
>
>   

This was caused by the extboot rom writing into itself, thus failing 
checksum on the next reboot.  I fixed this for kvm-75 by reloading the 
rom on reset.

-- 
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-08-30 10:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-29 18:43 Bug in reboot when using scsi or virtio Stuart Sheldon
2008-08-29 20:21 ` Brian Jackson
2008-08-29 21:23   ` Stuart Sheldon
2008-08-30 10:06 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-08-30 15:17   ` Stuart Sheldon
2008-08-31  7:38     ` Avi Kivity
2008-08-30 19:48   ` Henrik Holst

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