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Bill Kenworthy wrote: |
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> On 10/03/16 01:56, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 12:41 PM, hw <hw@×××××.de> wrote: |
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>>> I'm stuck with 'Could not find the root block device |
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>>> in UUID= ...' when trying to boot the guest. |
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>>> Is grub2 unable to work with virtio devices? |
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>> Are you sure that is a grub2 message? It seems more likely that this |
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>> is a message from the kernel (unless it is referring to the grub2 root |
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>> - posting the entire error would probably help here, and I didn't |
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>> realize grub2 even can find its root with a UUID assuming it actually |
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>> can). Does your kernel have virtio support enabled? What initramfs |
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>> are you using? The problem could lie with either. See if you can get |
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>> the initramfs to give you a shell (usually this can be done with a |
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>> kernel command line option) and see what block devices it can see (run |
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>> blkid or such). |
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>> If you're not using an initramfs then that is your problem. You can't |
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>> use UUID to reference your root if you aren't using an initramfs. |
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> I had to use this on grub install: |
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> grub2-install --target=i386-pc /dev/vda && \ |
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> grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg |
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> It couldn't find the right module without the hint. |
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That seems to work just fine: |
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livecd linux # grub2-install /dev/vda |
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Installing for i386-pc platform. |
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installation beendet. Keine Fehler aufgetreten. |
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Do you think it claims to have worked but actually didn't? |
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