Re: Bug in reboot when using scsi or virtio

Avi Kivity
2008-08-30T10:05:58Z

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.

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