Artful validation: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I could able to recreate the issue; Initially added upto 32 boot order disks apart from primary disk(boot order 1), and not able to recreate it. However with one more disks added with boot dev, could able to create the reported issue. ubuntu login: root Password: Welcome to Ubuntu 17.10 (GNU/Linux 4.13.0-16-generic ppc64le) * Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com * Management: https://landscape.canonical.com * Support: https://ubuntu.com/advantage 46 packages can be updated. 27 updates are security updates. The programs included with the Ubuntu system are free software; the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright. Ubuntu comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by applicable law. root@ubuntu:~# lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom vda 252:0 0 1M 0 disk vdb 252:16 0 1M 0 disk vdc 252:32 0 1M 0 disk vdd 252:48 0 1M 0 disk vde 252:64 0 1M 0 disk vdf 252:80 0 1M 0 disk vdg 252:96 0 1M 0 disk vdh 252:112 0 1M 0 disk vdi 252:128 0 1M 0 disk vdj 252:144 0 1M 0 disk vdk 252:160 0 1M 0 disk vdl 252:176 0 1M 0 disk vdm 252:192 0 1M 0 disk vdn 252:208 0 1M 0 disk vdo 252:224 0 1M 0 disk vdp 252:240 0 1M 0 disk vdq 252:256 0 1M 0 disk vdr 252:272 0 1M 0 disk vds 252:288 0 1M 0 disk vdt 252:304 0 1M 0 disk vdu 252:320 0 1M 0 disk vdv 252:336 0 1M 0 disk vdw 252:352 0 1M 0 disk vdx 252:368 0 1M 0 disk vdy 252:384 0 1M 0 disk vdz 252:400 0 1M 0 disk vdaa 252:416 0 50G 0 disk ├─vdaa1 252:417 0 7M 0 part └─vdaa2 252:418 0 50G 0 part / vdab 252:432 0 1M 0 disk vdac 252:448 0 1M 0 disk vdad 252:464 0 1M 0 disk vdae 252:480 0 1M 0 disk vdaf 252:496 0 1M 0 disk vdag 252:512 0 1M 0 disk Added one more addition one, 34th boot order disk, could able to recreate it. [root@lep8a artful]# vi disk.xml [root@lep8a artful]# virsh edit kal-artful_vm1 Domain kal-artful_vm1 XML configuration edited. [root@lep8a artful]# virsh destroy kal-artful_vm1 Domain kal-artful_vm1 destroyed [root@lep8a artful]# virsh start --console kal-artful_vm1 Domain kal-artful_vm1 started Connected to domain kal-artful_vm1 Escape character is ^] SLOF ********************************************************************** QEMU Starting Build Date = May 19 2017 07:43:48 FW Version = mockbuild@ release 20170303 Press "s" to enter Open Firmware. Populating /vdevice methods Populating /vdevice/v-scsi@2000 SCSI: Looking for devices 8000000000000000 CD-ROM : "QEMU QEMU CD-ROM 2.5+" Populating /vdevice/vty@30000000 Populating /vdevice/nvram@71000000 Populating /pci@800000020000000 00 f800 (D) : 1af4 1001 virtio [ block ] 00 f000 (D) : 1af4 1001 virtio [ block ] 00 e800 (D) : 1af4 1001 virtio [ block ] 00 e000 (D) : 1af4 1001 virtio [ block ] 00 d800 (D) : 1af4 1001 virtio [ block ] 00 d000 (D) : 1af4 1001 virtio [ block ] 00 c800 (D) : 1af4 1001 virtio [ block ] 00 c000 (D) : 1af4 1001 virtio [ block ] 00 b800 (D) : 1af4 1001 virtio [ block ] 00 b000 (D) : 1af4 1001 virtio [ block ] 00 a800 (D) : 1af4 1001 virtio [ block ] 00 a000 (D) : 1af4 1001 virtio [ block ] 00 9800 (D) : 1af4 1001 virtio [ block ] 00 9000 (D) : 1af4 1001 virtio [ block ] 00 8800 (D) : 1af4 1001 virtio [ block ] 00 8000 (D) : 1af4 1001 virtio [ block ] 00 7800 (D) : 1af4 1001 virtio [ block ] 00 7000 (D) : 1af4 1001 virtio [ block ] 00 6800 (D) : 1af4 1001 virtio [ block ] 00 6000 (D) : 1af4 1001 virtio [ block ] 00 5800 (D) : 1af4 1001 virtio [ block ] 00 5000 (D) : 1af4 1001 virtio [ block ] 00 4800 (D) : 1af4 1001 virtio [ block ] 00 4000 (D) : 1af4 1001 virtio [ block ] 00 3800 (D) : 1af4 1001 virtio [ block ] 00 3000 (D) : 1af4 1001 virtio [ block ] 00 2800 (B) : 1b36 0001 pci* 01 3800 (D) : 1af4 1001 virtio [ block ] 01 3000 (D) : 1af4 1001 virtio [ block ] 01 2800 (D) : 1af4 1001 virtio [ block ] 01 2000 (D) : 1af4 1001 virtio [ block ] 01 1800 (D) : 1af4 1001 virtio [ block ] 01 1000 (D) : 1af4 1001 virtio [ block ] 01 0800 (D) : 1af4 1001 virtio [ block ] 00 2000 (D) : 1af4 1002 unknown-legacy-device* 00 1800 (D) : 1af4 1001 virtio [ block ] 00 1000 (D) : 1033 0194 serial bus [ usb-xhci ] 00 0800 (D) : 1af4 1000 virtio [ net ] No NVRAM common partition, re-initializing... Scanning USB XHCI: Initializing Using default console: /vdevice/vty@30000000 Welcome to Open Firmware Copyright (c) 2004, 2017 IBM Corporation All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms of the BSD License available at http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php ( 400 ) Instruction Storage Exception [ c0 ] R0 .. R7 R8 .. R15 R16 .. R23 R24 .. R31 000000007dbe2ff4 000000007dc5e228 0000000000000000 000000007dc08540 000000007e666000 63692d6272696467 0000000000000000 0000000000000006 000000007dc0df00 000000007e7a5c38 0000000000000000 000000007dc04900 000000007e45df00 000000007e45df00 000000007dbe0e38 000000007dc08370 000000007dc4a018 0000000000040000 0000000000000045 0000000000000003 00000000000000c0 0000000000000000 000000007e7a5c23 ffffffffffffffff 000000007dc4a040 0000000000000000 000000007e7a018c 000000007e462010 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 000000007e706df0 CR / XER LR / CTR SRR0 / SRR1 DAR / DSISR 84000042 000000007dbe5330 63692d6272696464 0000000000000000 0000000020000000 63692d6272696467 8000000040001000 00000000 7 > Removed 34 boot order disk:
Booted the VM successfully. Applied artful proposed fixes and could not able to see the reported issue fixed. Help needed to apply artful-proposed fix. root@ubuntu:~# apt-get install qemu-slof/artful-proposed Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Selected version '20170724+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1' (Ubuntu:17.10/artful-proposed [all]) for 'qemu-slof' Suggested packages: qemu The following packages will be upgraded: qemu-slof 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 42 not upgraded. Need to get 172 kB of archives. After this operation, 1,024 B of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports artful-proposed/main ppc64el qemu-slof all 20170724+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1 [172 kB] Fetched 172 kB in 0s (240 kB/s) (Reading database ... 62634 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../qemu-slof_20170724+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1_all.deb ... Unpacking qemu-slof (20170724+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1) over (20170724+dfsg-1) ... Setting up qemu-slof (20170724+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1) ... root@ubuntu:~# root@ubuntu:~# apt-get install qemu-slof/artful-proposed Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done qemu-slof is already the newest version (20170724+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1). Selected version '20170724+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1' (Ubuntu:17.10/artful-proposed [all]) for 'qemu-slof' 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 42 not upgraded. Applied artful proposed fixes and could not able to see the reported issue fixed. Help needed to apply artful-proposed fix.