From: Andy Sy <andy.sy@neotitans.com>
To: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: LILO incompatibility with KVM?
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:40:08 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A5760D8.1000406@neotitans.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5d6222a80907071213o4d55831ev324cac953efa2a4a@mail.gmail.com>
Glauber Costa wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Andy Sy<andy.sy@neotitans.com> 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.
>>
>> Apparently certain builds/versions of KVM break
>> with LILO:
>>
>> http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kvm/2008/9/1/3152074/thread
>> http://support.zenwalk.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=18894
>>
>> Since it might not be feasible to ask the outsourced
>> VPS providers to change their setup, does anyone know
>> of a workaround that can be implemented on my side
>> to get LILO to work correctly with these particular
>> KVM versions?
> which version of kvm are you using?
>
> I fixed a bug with those exact characteristics quite a while ago...
According to our hosting company the version of kvm they
are using is:
QEMU PC emulator version 0.9.1 (kvm-72)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-10 15:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-07 19:03 LILO incompatibility with KVM? Andy Sy
2009-07-07 18:57 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-08 8:25 ` Andy Sy
[not found] ` <5d6222a80907071213o4d55831ev324cac953efa2a4a@mail.gmail.com>
2009-07-10 15:40 ` Andy Sy [this message]
2009-07-10 15:31 ` Glauber Costa
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