[Users] Change bootdisk from IDE to virtio

[Markus Stockhausen]

> > After switching the disk over to virtio the boot process hangs at
> >
> > SeaBIOS...
> > 
> > Machine UUID ...
> > 
> > iPXE ...
> > 
> > Booting from Hard Disk ...
> 
>  initramfs doesn't contain virtio drivers?

Tried it without luck:

linux-xj78:~ # blkid
/dev/vda1: UUID="d03b0079-c2e1-4ca2-8ac2-53e46fac55d3" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/vdb1: UUID="31ecf1f8-6d46-4ee1-bd73-c2dca46478b2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda1: UUID="92f14b02-77b4-4efa-bd7b-a9136453ae6d" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sda2: UUID="31681173-fe97-446b-ba6b-7b459c66b52a" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/vdc1: UUID="413fbea0-343a-4eb7-9901-f92f16c60c48" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/vdd1: UUID="87b31934-029c-49df-b667-37b239792f52" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/vde1: UUID="6457aeb7-84ee-495a-8649-6ade44f62ff0" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/vdf1: UUID="04a15523-1ec5-4108-9574-3e1c32194fee" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/vdg1: UUID="5f01c32b-5939-4772-b879-d75003107b6c" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/vdh1: UUID="304850e0-00ac-4a7c-b71e-4413ce4a5e30" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/vdi1: UUID="dea7d034-6189-42c7-9127-ab2d1bda5696" TYPE="ext3"
linux-xj78:~ # export rootdev=/dev/disk/by-uuid/31681173-fe97-446b-ba6b-7b459c66b52a
linux-xj78:~ # mkinitrd

Kernel image:   /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.76-0.11-default
Initrd image:   /boot/initrd-3.0.76-0.11-default
KMS drivers:    intel-agp cirrus
Root device:    /dev/disk/by-uuid/31681173-fe97-446b-ba6b-7b459c66b52a (/dev/sda2) (mounted on / as ext3)
Resume device:  /dev/disk/by-uuid/92f14b02-77b4-4efa-bd7b-a9136453ae6d (/dev/sda1)
Kernel Modules: hwmon thermal_sys thermal processor fan scsi_mod scsi_transport_spi mptbase mptscsih mptspi libata ata_piix ata_generic virtio_ring virtio virtio_blk scsi_dh scsi_dh_emc scsi_dh_hp_sw scsi_dh_alua scsi_dh_rdac mbcache jbd ext3 intel-gtt intel-agp syscopyarea sysfillrect sysimgblt i2c-core drm drm_kms_helper ttm cirrus usb-common usbcore ohci-hcd uhci-hcd ehci-hcd xhci-hcd hid usbhid crc-t10dif sd_mod virtio_pci
Features:       acpi kms block usb resume.userspace resume.kernel
Bootsplash:     SLES (800x600)
37356 blocks
>>> Network: auto
>>> Calling mkinitrd -k /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.76-0.11-default -i /tmp/mkdumprd.7kqe8kilVL -f 'kdump network' -B  -s ''
Regenerating kdump initrd ...

Kernel image:   /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.76-0.11-default
Initrd image:   /tmp/mkdumprd.7kqe8kilVL
KMS drivers:    intel-agp cirrus
Root device:    /dev/disk/by-uuid/31681173-fe97-446b-ba6b-7b459c66b52a (/dev/sda2) (mounted on / as ext3)
Resume device:  /dev/disk/by-uuid/92f14b02-77b4-4efa-bd7b-a9136453ae6d (/dev/sda1)
Kernel Modules: hwmon thermal_sys thermal processor fan scsi_mod scsi_transport_spi mptbase mptscsih mptspi libata ata_piix ata_generic virtio_ring virtio virtio_blk scsi_dh scsi_dh_emc scsi_dh_hp_sw scsi_dh_alua scsi_dh_rdac mbcache jbd ext3 intel-gtt intel-agp syscopyarea sysfillrect sysimgblt i2c-core drm drm_kms_helper ttm cirrus usb-common usbcore ohci-hcd uhci-hcd ehci-hcd xhci-hcd hid usbhid af_packet e1000 nls_utf8 crc-t10dif sd_mod virtio_pci
Features:       acpi kms block usb network resume.userspace resume.kernel kdump
50842 blocks

Markus


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