[CentOS-virt] CentOS 5.4 KVM: PXE boot problem

Mon Jul 19 13:13:15 UTC 2010
Sergiy Yegorov <prapor at unixzone.org.ua>

Hi!

Check your VM boot options. Looks like you have network boot disabled.
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm playing with KVM in order to adopt the technology for dev /
> testing purposes. Installing RHEL5 from ISO images works ok, no
> problems with installation.
> 
> The problem occurs with PXE boot - it is simply doesn't try to do PXE
> boot, according to what I can see:
> 
> Booting from Hard Disk...
> Boot from Hard Disk failed: not a bootable disk
> FATAL: No bootable device.
> _
> 
> I have:
> 
> CentOS release 5.4 (Final) , 2.6.18-194.8.1.el5 x86_64 kernel
> 
> libvirt-0.3.3-7.el5
> etherboot-roms-kvm-5.4.4-13.el5.centos
> libvirt-python-0.3.3-7.el5
> etherboot-pxes-5.4.4-13.el5.centos
> etherboot-zroms-5.4.4-13.el5.centos
> etherboot-roms-5.4.4-13.el5.centos
> kvm-36-1
> kmod-kvm-36-3
> etherboot-zroms-kvm-5.4.4-13.el5.centos
> 
> What I'm doing wrong? Any help is appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Vladimir
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-- 
Yours sincerely
Sergiy Yegorov
RHCT
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