From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Sy Subject: Re: LILO incompatibility with KVM? Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:40:08 +0800 Message-ID: <4A5760D8.1000406@neotitans.com> References: <4A539BED.1080708@neotitans.com> <5d6222a80907071213o4d55831ev324cac953efa2a4a@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Glauber Costa Return-path: Received: from mail-gx0-f226.google.com ([209.85.217.226]:42699 "EHLO mail-gx0-f226.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750838AbZGJPhL (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:37:11 -0400 Received: by gxk26 with SMTP id 26so1669397gxk.13 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:37:11 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <5d6222a80907071213o4d55831ev324cac953efa2a4a@mail.gmail.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Glauber Costa wrote: > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Andy Sy wrote: >> I am trying to install Slackware on KVM-based >> VPS hosting and keep getting a "LILO keytable read >> / checksum error" upon booting. >> >> Grub-based distros install fine on said VPS. >> >> Apparently certain builds/versions of KVM break >> with LILO: >> >> http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kvm/2008/9/1/3152074/thread >> http://support.zenwalk.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=18894 >> >> Since it might not be feasible to ask the outsourced >> VPS providers to change their setup, does anyone know >> of a workaround that can be implemented on my side >> to get LILO to work correctly with these particular >> KVM versions? > which version of kvm are you using? > > I fixed a bug with those exact characteristics quite a while ago... According to our hosting company the version of kvm they are using is: QEMU PC emulator version 0.9.1 (kvm-72)