Re: [libvirt] Re: Can't boot guest after adding an IDE storage

On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 05:58:37PM +0530, M. Mohan Kumar wrote: > Hi, > > We installed Fedora 11 guest in an emulated SCSI disk using virt-install. > After the installation the guest was shutdown and additional IDE virtual > storage was added to the guest. > > When we try to boot the guest from virt-manager, it tries to boot from > the newly added IDE storage (instead of installed SCSI storage) and fails > to boot. > > It seems that how the disk devices are sorted is the problem. There is a > bug opened to track this issue: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507271 > > As dicussed in the bugzilla, ideally there should be a 'bootable' flag > for each storage device. Also virt-manager could another option to > specify which disk to boot from. Yeah, this is getting painful we need to fix this for next release !