RE: specifying virtio block device as root filesystem for Debin S390X install?

2015-11-02 Thread Philipp Kern
Hi, On 2015-11-02 00:24, Kevin Kwan (Personal) wrote: I actually do run into fatal errors if I run this on my Debian x64 machine, but I think it's possible issues with the S390X TCG in the older builds of QEMU - actually have both the Windows and Linux version running side-by-side - the Windo

RE: specifying virtio block device as root filesystem for Debin S390X install?

2015-11-01 Thread Kevin Kwan (Personal)
, November 01, 2015 5:54 AM To: Kevin Kwan (Personal) Cc: debian-s390@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: specifying virtio block device as root filesystem for Debin S390X install? On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 08:47:51PM -0400, Kevin Kwan (Personal) wrote: > Is it possible to specify a virtio block dev

Re: specifying virtio block device as root filesystem for Debin S390X install?

2015-11-01 Thread Philipp Kern
On Sun, Nov 01, 2015 at 11:54:27AM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > I wonder how you got into the disk partitioner in the first place. All > my tries caused fatal errors in the DASD configuration part and it > wouldn't let me proceed. So s390-dasd will need a fix to detect this > situation. After I dea

Re: specifying virtio block device as root filesystem for Debin S390X install?

2015-11-01 Thread Philipp Kern
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 08:47:51PM -0400, Kevin Kwan (Personal) wrote: > Is it possible to specify a virtio block device as a root filesystem within > the Debian s390x installer? I specified a virtio disk for > qemu-system-s390x, and through some miracle was able to get the virtio > networking up