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From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: ISCSI boot limitation in HVM hosts
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:29:47 +0000
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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