[ovirt-users] virtual machine does not boot from its hard disk

Omer Frenkel ofrenkel at redhat.com
Sun Apr 5 08:32:37 UTC 2015



----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jason Keltz" <jas at cse.yorku.ca>
> To: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Thursday, April 2, 2015 9:41:45 PM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] virtual machine does not boot from its hard disk
> 
> This is not the problem because I can hit F12, choose the disk, and the
> machine boots fine.
> I *had* set the machine to PXE boot before hard disk, but after undoing that,
> the configuration seems to have held.
> 
> Jason.
> On 04/02/2015 02:05 PM, shimano wrote:
>

is the disk marked as 'bootable'?
 
> 
> 
> Make sure that KickStart installed correct boot sector (on correct
> partition). For example boot Hiren's CD on VM and check that Grub trying to
> boot correct /boot partition and your /boot partition is active (bootable).
> 
> 
> 2015-04-02 18:28 GMT+02:00 Jason Keltz < jas at cse.yorku.ca > :
> 
> 
> I have kickstarted my first CentOS 6 host under ovirt. When it boots, the VM
> tries to PXE boot again rather than going to the hard disk.
> 
> If I look under "Boot Options" in my VM, there's only:
> 
> * First Device: Hard Disk
> * Second Device: [None]
> 
> If I "Enable boot menu" then I can Hit F12 when the machine boots and select
> the disk.
> 
> I suspect this is a bug, or am I missing something?
> 
> In addition, can you configure which of the network interface does PXE boot?
> or ovirt will always try all of them until it finds one that works? It would
> seem natural to me to have another column under "Network Interfaces"
> labelled "PXE" where you decide which of the interfaces have PXE enabled.
> 
> Jason.
> 
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