On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 07:36:24AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 12:20:00AM +0100, Dale Amon wrote:
I might add that virt-rescue now gets much further than I have ever seen before... it shows a line [ 245.032513] vda: vda1 vda2
before hanging forever. So it at least has gotten to the point of recognizing the partitions on the virtual disk I want to access.
This hang is also characteristic of the ADFS problem.
I don't think anything is going to change until someone fixes this kernel bug.
Is there more than one facit to this bug? The reports I've found all seems to say it is with a blank disk. In this case the virtual disk is partitioned and has a valid ext4 and a swap partition on it and only lacks the boot MBR and grub set up.