[syslinux] syslinux-4.10-pre15 and KVM guest booting problem

[Shantanu Gadgil]

Hi,
Sorry for the delay, I could not post sooner.

The physical machines that I had experimented with are no longer RHEL and will be Windows' for a few more weeks.

Whether it is a host machine related problem is something I can /probably/ verify only then. Until then, I can get a make and model of the machines.

Also, sorry to sound cryptic in the first "bug-report" post...in my mind I was in continuation of my previous "4.10-preXXX" related posts.

WRT that, I had already experimented with all the chipsets; same result as you have mentioned...just doesn't work with virtio, and this trippy behavior with e1000. I always verify to see to it that the network being used is e1000 (unless required otherwise).

Any pointers on how to update the qemu-roms package safely? without messing with things?

(Idea: I can try with the CentOS 6.0 equivalent and report back as well).

Till then I am setting up a VirtualBox based server with 4.10-pre15 and see how things go.

Regards,
Shantanu

--- On Tue, 7/19/11, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:

> From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com>
> Subject: Re: [syslinux] syslinux-4.10-pre15 and KVM guest booting problem
> To: "Shantanu Gadgil" <shantanugadgil at yahoo.com>, "For discussion of Syslinux and tftp-hpa" <syslinux at zytor.com>
> Date: Tuesday, July 19, 2011, 1:41 AM
> On 07/16/2011 09:01 AM, Shantanu
> Gadgil wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have a problem to report with the 4.10-pre15
> branch.
> > The problem is that my KVM guest "just reboots" when
> booting off the network.
> > 
> > The setup is as follows:
> > Host OS: RHEL 6.0/RHEL 6.1 with the default packages
> (no additional repos or packages)
> > KVM guest configured to network boot.
> > 
> > (maybe irrelevant info ...) ?!?
> > 
> > DHCP server (using dnsmasq) in the same subnet as the
> KVM host.
> > DHCP server running on a different physical machine
> than that of the KVM host.
> > JFYI, DHCP server assigns static DHCP lease and then
> TFTP follows...
> > TFTP is configured using dnsmasq (again) :)
> > 
> > The TFTP server is a different physical machine (than
> the above two machines)
> > 
> 
> First of all, what is the complete KVM configuration?
> 
>     -hpa
>