From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>
To: Guillaume Rousse <Guillaume.Rousse@inria.fr>,
xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: ISCSI boot limitation in HVM hosts
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:29:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C5AF2CAB.BBA%keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49897348.2090300@inria.fr>
On 04/02/2009 10:51, "Guillaume Rousse" <Guillaume.Rousse@inria.fr> wrote:
> I just ran into the issue of unability to boot from a device exported as
> /dev/sda in a HVM host, as described at
> http://www.bestgrid.org/index.php/HVM_virtual_machine
>
> As even IDE drives are now labeled 'sda' also with recent linux kernels,
> this is a bit troublesome :)
The limitation is that the BIOS cannot boot from SCSI discs. It can boot
from any IDE disc, regardless of what Linux calls it.
-- Keir
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-04 11:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-04 10:51 ISCSI boot limitation in HVM hosts Guillaume Rousse
2009-02-04 11:29 ` Keir Fraser [this message]
2009-02-04 11:39 ` Daniel P. Berrange
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