Bug 440271

Summary: Intel e1000 boot ROM doesn't show up in boot menu
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jay Turner <jturner>
Component: kvmAssignee: Glauber Costa <gcosta>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 9CC: berrange, clalance, lkundrak, srevivo, virt-maint
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Description Lubomir Kundrak 2008-04-02 15:49:36 UTC
Description of problem:

When /usr/share/kvm/pxe-e1000.bin loads (either if specified as -option-rom, or
when -boot string contains 'n' is present) there's no "Network" choice in F10
menu, and the code from the ROM is unconditionally executed.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

kvm-64

Additional info:

This breaks situations when user wants to have boot from network available
(selectable via F10 menu), but default to boot from network. Examples are "-boot
cn" (this one can be produced by libvirt) or "-boot c -option-rom
/usr/share/kvm/pxe-e1000.bin"

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2008-04-03 03:36:54 UTC
Hmmm, something from the e1000 pxe rom must be different.  As the option rom
definitely shouldn't get called unconditionally.  And there's nothing special
casing it afaict from a quick look through kvm.

Comment 2 Lubomir Kundrak 2008-04-03 07:45:30 UTC
Jeremy I was attempting to rebuild the option rom, but was not able to find
neither sources nor configuration file used to generate one that was shipped in
the package. Do we ship a blob here?

Also, I generated a rom from gPXE project and it worked (nearly, that is it had
a default DHCP timeout somewhat shorter) all well. I'm thinking whether we
should package etherboot or gPXE separately providin rom images for selected
NICs and let qemu/kvm use those?

Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 08:35:17 UTC
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA.
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Comment 6 Lubomir Rintel 2009-06-10 06:53:19 UTC
I believe this was reworked in F11.