On Wed, 2014-07-23 at 14:22 +0200, Thomas Lange wrote:
> >>>>> On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 12:22:18 +0100, Patrick J Cherry 
> >>>>> <patr...@bytemark.co.uk> said:
> 
>     > In wheezy, dracut will not add virtio_* modules to the initramfs if the 
> systemd-detect-virt
>     > Can this be patched into wheezy please?  
> No. This is not an important bug. And since wheezy is stable, only
> very important things should be patched and uploaded to wheezy updates.
> 
> You can use all newer dracut versions in wheezy (I doing this for a
> long time) without any problems. That way, you get much more bug fixes
> and features for dracut.
> 
> I you like to stay with the official wheezy version, just edit
> /etc/dracut.conf and add the virtio driver to the variable
> 
> #add_drivers+=""
> 

I appreciate your time.  I'd argue it renders quite a common class of
machines unbootable after moving from initramfs-tools, and as such I
think it becomes a bug important enough to be considered for
wheezy-updates.

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Patrick J Cherry
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