Bug#560272: initramfs-tools: fails to mount BTRFS root file system under KVM

2009-12-10 Thread Jason White
maximilian attems wrote: > you could simply use rootfstype bootarg, > as described in man initramfs-tools. My mistake was to enter it in uppercase (corresponding to the name of the environment variable in the script) rather than in lowercase as I should have done. It works now. Thanks. --

Bug#560272: initramfs-tools: fails to mount BTRFS root file system under KVM

2009-12-10 Thread maximilian attems
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, Jason White wrote: > Package: initramfs-tools > Version: 0.93.4 > Severity: wishlist > > > To experiment with BTRFS as the root file system under KVM, I added btrfs and > associated modules to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules and built an initrd image, > which I then installed t

Bug#560272: initramfs-tools: fails to mount BTRFS root file system under KVM

2009-12-09 Thread Jason White
Editing scripts.local to hard-code the file system type worked around this bug. I suppose this is now a wishlist bug for Btrfs file system type detection. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.d

Bug#560272: initramfs-tools: fails to mount BTRFS root file system under KVM

2009-12-09 Thread Jason White
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.93.4 Severity: wishlist To experiment with BTRFS as the root file system under KVM, I added btrfs and associated modules to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules and built an initrd image, which I then installed to an EXT3 partition in the QCOW2 image to be loaded by KV