Hi,
When using the Hyper-V Generation 2 hypervisor and trying to PXE boot a VM
guest, the GRUB2 time functions are not working, which causes the PXE menu to
display for a fraction of a second, instead of the usual 10 seconds or so, then
boot the default menu entry, and immediately report that it timed out while
loading the kernel. In other words, the time goes by superfast. For example,
you'll get the message:
error: time out opening `rhel60x64/vmlinuz'.
This is because the functions in "./grub-core/kern/i386/tsc.c" that are used to
calculate time are not working.
I found this site, which seems to say that the devices that GRUB2 uses to
calculate the time have been removed from Hyper-V Generation 2:
Hyper-V generation 2 virtual machines – part 1 - John Howard - Senior Program
Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft - Site Home - TechNet Blogs
Referring to changes made to Hyper-V Generation 2, it says:Then we changed
other devices such as removing the legacy i8042 keyboard controller (which has
an interesting side effect I will talk about in a future part), PS/2 mouse, S3
Video, the Programmable Interrupt Controller (PIC), the Programmable Interrupt
Timer (PIT), the Super I/O device on which floppy support relied. We actually
went even further by removing the PCI bus as well. For good measure, we also
removed the speaker and the numerical co-processor. We also revised ACPI.
I noticed that in "tsc.c", the grub_inb(GRUB_PIT_SPEAKER_PORT) call always
returns 0xff on Hyper-V Generation 2.
static void
grub_pit_wait (grub_uint16_t tics)
{
...
grub_outb (grub_inb (GRUB_PIT_SPEAKER_PORT)
& ~ (GRUB_PIT_SPK_DATA | GRUB_PIT_SPK_TMR2),
GRUB_PIT_SPEAKER_PORT);
...
}
Is this a known issue that is already being addressed?
Thank you,
Rigoberto Corujo_______________________________________________
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