On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Andy Sy<andy.sy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Glauber Costa wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Andy Sy<andy.sy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
