Re: [kvm-devel] virtio: kvm-62, lilo cannot be installed into virtio device

2008-02-28 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Tomas Rusnak wrote: > Chris Wedgwood napsal(a): >> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:11:30AM +0100, Tomas Rusnak wrote: >> > Check 'man lilo.conf' under 'disk=' and 'max-partitions=' >>> Thank you for your quick answer, but this doesn't help. After i run >>> lilo, it give me the same error message. >>

Re: [kvm-devel] virtio: kvm-62, lilo cannot be installed into virtio device

2008-02-28 Thread Tomas Rusnak
Chris Wedgwood napsal(a): > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:25:49AM +0100, Tomas Rusnak wrote: > >> But max-partitions=16 give you "bad value". > > I suggested 16 because that's what the called to alloc_disk in the > virtio block driver is using. I'm not sure why lilo dislikes that > value. > >> Now

Re: [kvm-devel] virtio: kvm-62, lilo cannot be installed into virtio device

2008-02-28 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:25:49AM +0100, Tomas Rusnak wrote: > But max-partitions=16 give you "bad value". I suggested 16 because that's what the called to alloc_disk in the virtio block driver is using. I'm not sure why lilo dislikes that value. > Now I can boot it correctly. Thank you very m

Re: [kvm-devel] virtio: kvm-62, lilo cannot be installed into virtio device

2008-02-28 Thread Tomas Rusnak
Chris Wedgwood napsal(a): > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:11:30AM +0100, Tomas Rusnak wrote: > Check 'man lilo.conf' under 'disk=' and 'max-partitions=' > >> Thank you for your quick answer, but this doesn't help. After i run >> lilo, it give me the same error message. > > did you try adding '

Re: [kvm-devel] virtio: kvm-62, lilo cannot be installed into virtio device

2008-02-28 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:11:30AM +0100, Tomas Rusnak wrote: >>> Check 'man lilo.conf' under 'disk=' and 'max-partitions=' > Thank you for your quick answer, but this doesn't help. After i run > lilo, it give me the same error message. did you try adding 'max-partitions=16' or similar? --

Re: [kvm-devel] virtio: kvm-62, lilo cannot be installed into virtio device

2008-02-28 Thread Tomas Rusnak
Chris Wedgwood napsal(a): > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 09:40:00AM +0100, Tomas Rusnak wrote: > >> I test virtio block device. I can boot from vda as root partition, but >> if I want to install lilo into boot sector, lilo give me this error: >> >> Fatal: Linux experimental device 0x04x needs to be de

Re: [kvm-devel] virtio: kvm-62, lilo cannot be installed into virtio device

2008-02-28 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 09:40:00AM +0100, Tomas Rusnak wrote: > I test virtio block device. I can boot from vda as root partition, but > if I want to install lilo into boot sector, lilo give me this error: > > Fatal: Linux experimental device 0x04x needs to be defined. > Check 'man lilo.conf' un

[kvm-devel] virtio: kvm-62, lilo cannot be installed into virtio device

2008-02-28 Thread Tomas Rusnak
Hello I test virtio block device. I can boot from vda as root partition, but if I want to install lilo into boot sector, lilo give me this error: Fatal: Linux experimental device 0x04x needs to be defined. Check 'man lilo.conf' under 'disk=' and 'max-partitions=' I boot it like this: kvm -boot