Re: Bug in reboot when using scsi or virtio

Henrik Holst
2008-08-30T19:48:53Z

2008/8/30 Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>:
> 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.

Many many thanks!

/Henrik Holst