[Bug 598649] [NEW] cannot boot grub multiboot image with kvm -kernel

[Scott Moser]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: qemu-kvm

I'm trying to boot a grub multiboot image with kvm -kernel and it is not
functioning.

'-kernel' should be capable of booting a multiboot image, and I'm
passing it one.  I created the image by running the following inside a
ubuntu 10.04 guest.

$ echo "set prefix=(hd0)/boot/grub" > mycfg.cfg
$ grub-mkimage --output=grub-loader.img --config=mycfg.cfg \
   --prefix=/boot/grub biosdisk ext2 part_msdos

Then, I tried booting a disk image passing that loader to '-kernel'.  kvm hangs showing only:
  Starting SeaBIOS (version 0.5.1-20100120_010601-rothera) 

I've built git from commit bc3a9ccc5ddea4c0c713ef6fb3c11d9a88cec169 at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/qemu-kvm.git , and it is
functioning correctly.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: qemu-kvm 0.12.4+noroms-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: User Name 2.6.32-305.9-ec2 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-305-ec2 x86_64
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDmesg: [   15.541040] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
Date: Fri Jun 25 20:25:58 2010
Ec2AMI: ami-8e05ede7
Ec2AMIManifest: ubuntu-images-testing-us/ubuntu-maverick-daily-amd64-server-20100625.manifest.xml
Ec2AvailabilityZone: us-east-1d
Ec2InstanceType: m1.large
Ec2Kernel: aki-0d816864
Ec2Ramdisk: unavailable
KvmCmdLine:
 UID        PID  PPID  C    SZ   RSS PSR STIME TTY          TIME CMD
 ubuntu    1779   812 99 86610 47744   1 20:25 pts/1    00:00:18 kvm -m 128 -drive file=disk.img,index=0,if=virtio -net nic,model=virtio -net user -kernel grub-loader.img -curses
Lspci:
 
Lsusb: Error: command ['lsusb'] failed with exit code 1:
ProcCmdLine: root=/dev/sda1 ro 4
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcModules: ipv6 293479 12 - Live 0xffffffffa0000000
SourcePackage: qemu-kvm

** Affects: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug ec2-images maverick

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cannot boot grub multiboot image with kvm -kernel
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/598649
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