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Bug 1129930

Summary: fail to assign correct order for the boot device in seabios as we specified the bootindex in qemu-kvm cli(under the same virtio-scsi-pci)
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Jun Li <juli>
Component: seabiosAssignee: Markus Armbruster <armbru>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: high    
Version: 6.6CC: ailan, areis, armbru, famz, hhuang, jen, juzhang, knoel, kraxel, lersek, michen, pbonzini, qzhang, salmy, virt-bugs, virt-maint, vrozenfe, xfu
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: Reopened
Target Release: ---   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version: seabios-0.6.1.2-29.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
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Clone Of: 1096560 Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-07-22 07:01:41 UTC Type: Bug
Regression: --- Mount Type: ---
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Verified Versions: Category: ---
oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On: 1096560    
Bug Blocks: 1153397, 1159926    

Comment 1 Jun Li 2014-08-14 02:55:39 UTC
Test it on rhel 6, steps as followings:

1.boot guests using following cli:
/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -m 2G \
-device virtio-scsi-pci,id=scsi0 \
-drive file=/mnt/windows_img/win2012-64-virtio.raw,if=none,id=disk1,format=raw,snapshot=on \
-device scsi-hd,drive=disk1,id=sys-disk1,scsi-id=100,lun=0,bootindex=0 \
-boot menu=on -monitor stdio -vnc :2 \
-drive file=/mnt/linux_img/RHEL-Server-7.0-64.raw,if=none,id=disk2,snapshot=on \
-device scsi-hd,drive=disk2,id=sys-disk2,scsi-id=0,lun=0,bootindex=3 -S

2.check the boot order in seabios.
Press F12 for boot menu.

Actual results:
sys-disk2 is the first disk and sys-disk1 is the second disk when press F12.
Such as:
1. virtio-scsi Drive QEMU QEMU HARDDISK 1.5.
2. virtio-scsi Drive QEMU QEMU HARDDISK 1.5.
...

Expected results:
the order of the boot device in seabios should the same to we specified the bootindex in qemu-kvm command line.


Version of components:
# rpm -qa|grep qemu-kvm && rpm -qa|grep seabios
qemu-kvm-debuginfo-0.12.1.2-2.436.el6.x86_64
qemu-kvm-tools-0.12.1.2-2.436.el6.x86_64
qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.436.el6.x86_64
seabios-0.6.1.2-28.el6.x86_64

Comment 10 Jeff Nelson 2014-12-23 19:36:20 UTC
Fix included in seabios-0.6.1.2-29.el6

Comment 12 langfang 2015-02-26 07:15:40 UTC
Reproduce this bug as follow version:
Host
# uname -r
2.6.32-539.el6.x86_64
# rpm -q qemu-kvm-rhev
qemu-kvm-rhev-0.12.1.2-2.448.el6.x86_64
# rpm -q seabios
seabios-0.6.1.2-28.el6.x86_64

Steps
1.Boot guest with 

 ..-device virtio-scsi-pci,id=scsi0 -drive file=/home/rhel6.6.raw,if=none,id=disk1,format=raw -device scsi-hd,drive=disk1,id=sys-disk1,scsi-id=100,lun=0,bootindex=0 -boot menu=on -monitor stdio -vnc :2 -drive file=/home/win8-64-virtio.raw,if=none,id=disk2 -device scsi-hd,drive=disk2,id=sys-disk2,scsi-id=0,lun=0,bootindex=3...


Results: guest boot up from the "bootindex=3" imag.

Verify this bug as follow version.

Host
# uname -r
2.6.32-539.el6.x86_64
# rpm -q qemu-kvm-rhev
qemu-kvm-rhev-0.12.1.2-2.448.el6.x86_64
# rpm -q seabios
seabios-0.6.1.2-29.el6.x86_64


Steps as same as reproduce

Resutls:

Guest boot up from "bootindex=0" imag, work well


According to above test , this bug has been fixed.

Comment 16 errata-xmlrpc 2015-07-22 07:01:41 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2015-1355.html