* Reinhard Tartler <siret...@tauware.de> [Die Aug 24, 2010 at 12:13:48 +0200]: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 10:36:43 (CEST), maximilian attems wrote:
> >> I'm using initramfs-tools in the context of an FAI nfsroot, read, I want > >> to have it booted in a KVM guest with both virtio hard drives and > >> virtio_net. It turns out despite having 'MODULES=most' in > >> /srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir/etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf, > >> the modules 'virtio_pci', 'virtio_blk' and 'virtio_ring' are included, > >> but 'virtio_net' is missing. > >> I'm still looking for a good workaround to get an virtio-net enabled > >> guest installed via an FAI nfsroot. > > lsinitramfs /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64 | grep virtio_net > > lib/modules/2.6.32-5-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/virtio_net.ko > > I can only guess that you are using an outdated version of > > initramfs-tools. please upgrade and retry. > You're right, the problem does not seem to be in initramfs-tools. In > fact, reinstalling initramfs-tools_0.97 in the generated fai chroot > fixes this problem as well. It seems to me that make-fai-nfsroot is > installing and/or calling update-initramfs in a bad order that leads to > the module 'virtio_net' ending up in the initramfs. > I'm CC'ing mikap with this email. Mikap, perhaps you have some idea what > might go wrong here? I'm using a more or less basic lenny installation > (in an openvz container, but that shouldn't matter) with the packages > downloaded from the fai source: > deb http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download lenny koeln The i-t v0.97 from http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download/lenny/ has the according drivers/net support, so that's fine from this POV. Reinhard, can you please retry with FAI version 3.4.0? We did some updates to update-initramfs handling for the 3.4 releases, would be great to know whether it works for you as well. PS: Please notice that I'm m...@d.o and *not* mikap@ ;) regards, -mika-
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