Comment 12 for bug 1859656

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Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer) wrote : Re: [2.6] Unable to reboot s390x KVM machine after initial deploy

First check - as assumed - the old style config always failed.
It went into netboot, netboot fails and then it bails out.

root@testkvm-bionic-from:~# virsh start netboot --console
Domain netboot started
Connected to domain netboot
Escape character is ^]
done
  Using IPv4 address: 192.168.122.33
  Using TFTP server: 192.168.122.1
Trying pxelinux.cfg files...
  TFTP error: ICMP ERROR "port unreachable"
  TFTP error: ICMP ERROR "port unreachable"
  TFTP error: ICMP ERROR "port unreachable"
  TFTP error: ICMP ERROR "port unreachable"
  TFTP error: ICMP ERROR "port unreachable"
  TFTP error: ICMP ERROR "port unreachable"
  Receiving data: 0 KBytes
Repeating TFTP read request...
  TFTP error: ICMP ERROR "port unreachable"
  TFTP error: ICMP ERROR "port unreachable"
  TFTP error: ICMP ERROR "port unreachable"
  TFTP error: ICMP ERROR "port unreachable"
  Receiving data: 0 KBytes
Repeating TFTP read request...
  TFTP error: ICMP ERROR "port unreachable"
Failed to load OS from network

root@testkvm-bionic-from:~#
root@testkvm-bionic-from:~# virsh list --all
 Id Name State
----------------------------------------------------
 - netboot shut off

-- -- -- --

The suggested config with bootindex (lets see if that would work on s390x)

root@testkvm-bionic-from:~# virsh start netboot --console
Domain netboot started
Connected to domain netboot
Escape character is ^]
done
  Using IPv4 address: 192.168.122.33
  Using TFTP server: 192.168.122.1
Trying pxelinux.cfg files...
  TFTP error: ICMP ERROR "port unreachable"
  TFTP error: ICMP ERROR "port unreachable"
  TFTP error: ICMP ERROR "port unreachable"
  TFTP error: ICMP ERROR "port unreachable"
  TFTP error: ICMP ERROR "port unreachable"
  TFTP error: ICMP ERROR "port unreachable"
  Receiving data: 0 KBytes
Repeating TFTP read request...
  TFTP error: ICMP ERROR "port unreachable"
  TFTP error: ICMP ERROR "port unreachable"
  TFTP error: ICMP ERROR "port unreachable"
  TFTP error: ICMP ERROR "port unreachable"
  Receiving data: 0 KBytes
Repeating TFTP read request...
  TFTP error: ICMP ERROR "port unreachable"
Failed to load OS from network

by that confirming SFeole again (comment #9 this time).

So no easy workarounds present.