LILO incompatibility with KVM?
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?
TIA for any help...
Quoted 5 lines · Andy Sy
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.
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.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
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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:
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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
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Quoted 18 lines · Andy Sy
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=18894Since 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?
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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.
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Quoted 9 lines · Andy Sy
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:
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http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kvm/2008/9/1/3152074/thread
http://support.zenwalk.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=18894Since 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?
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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)