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From: Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: Virtio with Debian GNU/Linux Etch
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 22:30:20 -0300
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Hi, Zdenek.

El viernes 17 de septiembre del 2010 a las 23:11:58,
Zdenek Kaspar escribi=F3:

> > I have some installations with Debian GNU/Linux Etch I'm migrating
> > to KVM. I just installed a kernel 2.6.26 from backports to use
> > Virtio.
> >=20
> > But when I try to boot the operating system, it can not find the vd*
> > device to mount the root filesystem. I made sure to change the
> > /etc/fstab using partitions vd* and using in the 'root' GRUB
> > parameter the vd corresponding partition. Just in case it were not
> > loading the module, I added 'virtioi-blk' in /etc/modules, but I
> > keep getting the same problem.
> >=20
> > What could be the problem?

> 1) try put virtio_pci and virtio_blk into /etc/initramfs-tools/modules
> and run update-initramfs

Great! Following these steps, the kernel boots without problems!

It draws attention to me that previous was not necessary to do with a
stock kernel 2.6.26 of Debian GNU/Linux Lenny wanting to switch from
using IDE disks to virtio disks.

> BTW, for next kernel package updates you should modify grub menu.lst:
> ie: # kopt=3Droot=3D/dev/vda1 ro otherwise next kernel update
> (update-grub) will screw root parameter again if the entries were
> automatically generated..

Thanks for the recommendation.


Thanks to both for your replies.

Regards,
Daniel
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