Bug 845931 - Guest fail to boot from hard disk correctly at the first time with gpxe if we select network in BIOS
Summary: Guest fail to boot from hard disk correctly at the first time with gpxe if we...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: gpxe
Version: 5.9
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Virtualization Maintenance
QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-08-06 07:24 UTC by Sibiao Luo
Modified: 2013-04-17 15:06 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-04-17 15:06:16 UTC
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Description Sibiao Luo 2012-08-06 07:24:37 UTC
Description of problem:
   Boot guest with gpxe in boot menu(F12), KVM cann't read hard disk correctly at the first time booting, after guest reboot (the second time) automatically, it then can boot from hard disk successfully.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
host info:
# uname -r && rpm -q kvm
2.6.18-333.el5
kvm-83-258.el5
# rpm -qa | grep  gpxe
gpxe-roms-qemu-0.9.7-9.el5
guest info:
# uname -r
2.6.18-333.el5

How reproducible:
almost every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1.prepare image installed with rhel5.9 64bit guest.
2.# alternatives --config qemu-pxe-roms

There are 2 programs which provide 'qemu-pxe-roms'.

  Selection    Command
-----------------------------------------------
*  1           /usr/share/etherboot
 + 2           /usr/share/gpxe

Enter to keep the current selection[+], or type selection number: 2
3.boot rhel 5.9 64bit guest.
eg: # /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -m 2G -smp 2,cores=2,threads=1,sockets=1 -M rhel5.6.0 -cpu qemu64,+sse2 -name virtio_nic_test -drive file=/home/RHEL-Server-5.9-64-virtio.qcow2,format=qcow2,media=disk,if=virtio,cache=none,werror=stop,boot=on -uuid `uuidgen` -balloon virtio -monitor unix:/tmp/virt-nic-sluo,server,nowait -spice port=5931,disable-ticketing -qxl 1 -usbdevice tablet -soundhw ac97 -no-hpet -rtc-td-hack -no-kvm-pit-reinjection -monitor stdio -boot nc -net nic,vlan=0,model=virtio,macaddr=08:2E:5F:0A:0D:1B -net tap,sndbuf=0,vlan=0,script=/etc/qemu-ifup,downscript=no
4.press F12 and select "Network [gPXE (PCI 00:00.0)]" from boot menu.
  
Actual results:
after the step 4, guest fail to boot from hard disk at the first time with gpxe, it will reboot automatically. after rebooting, it then can boot from hard disk successfully.

Expected results:
guest should read hard disk correctly at the first time booting.

Additional info:

Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2012-08-06 07:29:17 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated in the
current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to address this
request at this time. Red Hat invites you to ask your support
representative to propose this request, if appropriate and relevant,
in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Comment 4 RHEL Program Management 2013-04-17 15:06:16 UTC
Development Management has reviewed and declined this request.
You may appeal this decision by reopening this request.


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