From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Glauber Costa Subject: Re: LILO incompatibility with KVM? Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:31:57 -0300 Message-ID: <5d6222a80907100831p7990cdf7s2ce92e03eb38f0df@mail.gmail.com> References: <4A539BED.1080708@neotitans.com> <5d6222a80907071213o4d55831ev324cac953efa2a4a@mail.gmail.com> <4A5760D8.1000406@neotitans.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Andy Sy Return-path: Received: from mail-gx0-f226.google.com ([209.85.217.226]:48569 "EHLO mail-gx0-f226.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753936AbZGJPb6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:31:58 -0400 Received: by gxk26 with SMTP id 26so1663441gxk.13 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:31:57 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4A5760D8.1000406@neotitans.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Andy Sy wrote: > Glauber Costa wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:03 PM, 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. >>> >>> 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) > Too old. Newer kvm versions have a fix for that. -- Glauber Costa. "Free as in Freedom" http://glommer.net "The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act."