From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Sy Subject: Re: LILO incompatibility with KVM? Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:25:39 +0800 Message-ID: <4A545803.9010904@neotitans.com> References: <4A539BED.1080708@neotitans.com> <4A539A94.9050300@codemonkey.ws> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Anthony Liguori , glommer@gmail.com To: kvm@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail-gx0-f226.google.com ([209.85.217.226]:47995 "EHLO mail-gx0-f226.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756383AbZGHIZr (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jul 2009 04:25:47 -0400 Received: by gxk26 with SMTP id 26so2907205gxk.13 for ; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:25:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4A539A94.9050300@codemonkey.ws> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > Andy Sy wrote: > I am trying to install Slackware on KVM-based > VPS hosting and keep getting a "LILO keytable read > / checksum error" upon booting. > > Grub-based distros install fine on said VPS. > Anthony Liguori wrote: > > Are you using virtio disks? It's probably that extboot doesn't > implement enough int13 functions for LILO. > > If you have the option, switching to an IDE disk may be a work around. > Glauber Costa wrote: > > which version of kvm are you using? > I fixed a bug with those exact characteristics quite a while ago... Hi guys, Thanks for responding. I was wondering if there is a LILO-based workaround (perhaps something I can put in lilo.conf itself) to avoid having that error show up? I will try to ask our VPS hoster for the info above but the hosting company may be leery of modifying their KVM setup (immediately) just to accommodate my specific situation and we need to get this LILO-based distro up and running in the short-term. Thanks, Andy