Bug 470388 - kvm: syslinux's "boot from local drive" doesn't work with virtio
Summary: kvm: syslinux's "boot from local drive" doesn't work with virtio
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kvm
Version: 10
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Glauber Costa
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-11-06 22:45 UTC by Bill Nottingham
Modified: 2014-03-17 03:16 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-12-18 06:46:11 UTC
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Description Bill Nottingham 2008-11-06 22:45:59 UTC
Description of problem:

They don't show up in the initial boot device list, although I can select
'Hard drive' under the boot menu.

If I boot from an installer CD, and select 'boot from local drive', the virtio disk isn't found.

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

virt-manager-0.6.0-3.fc10.x86_64
kvm-74-5.fc10.x86_64
qemu-img-0.9.1-10.fc10.x86_64

Comment 1 Mark McLoughlin 2008-11-07 10:42:42 UTC
Yeah, the BIOS doesn't have support for virtio so we use the extboot option ROM to boot from virtio ... you get that loaded by specifying -drive ...,boot=on

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2008-11-11 17:26:03 UTC
To elaborate on the 'boot from local drive' - selecting that in isolinux/syslinux yields:

Booting from local disk...
FATAL: No bootable device.bb

Comment 3 Glauber Costa 2008-11-26 00:30:29 UTC
bill,

mind sharing your command line? I'm getting variable results depending on how I test it, want to make sure I'm matching your configuration exactly.

Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 04:55:57 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle.
Changing version to '10'.

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Comment 5 Bill Nottingham 2008-11-26 19:32:49 UTC
/usr/bin/qemu-kvm -S -M pc -m 1000 -smp 1 -name aaargh -monitor pty -boot c -drive file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/boot.iso,if=ide,media=cdrom,index=2 -drive file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/aaargh.img,if=virtio,index=0,boot=on -net nic,macaddr=54:52:00:6d:c2:6a,vlan=0,model=virtio -net tap,fd=12,script=,vlan=0,ifname=vnet0 -serial pty -parallel none -usb -vnc 127.0.0.1:0 -k en-us -soundhw es1370

(Launched via virt-manager.)

Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2009-11-18 08:46:40 UTC
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Comment 7 Bug Zapper 2009-12-18 06:46:11 UTC
Fedora 10 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-12-17. Fedora 10 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
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