From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com (us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com [216.205.24.124]) by mx.groups.io with SMTP id smtpd.web09.4516.1628575319116673266 for ; Mon, 09 Aug 2021 23:01:59 -0700 Authentication-Results: mx.groups.io; dkim=pass header.i=@redhat.com header.s=mimecast20190719 header.b=gVvOFy/p; spf=pass (domain: redhat.com, ip: 216.205.24.124, mailfrom: kraxel@redhat.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1628575317; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=93h2RtP8fah4xSh3qelbSsAiWy5UeZihudjHGSOs804=; b=gVvOFy/p8Byz4ZJPjm2qvWbGo0eru1qrBBrM/8R4H3ZEL4WyiPPoAPh9HUiFowqobNnLd8 AbcShy0z6QcR/UDeDim0kzzDuE1BXHm0fem/WGF9pxCdaQiL2BUDIRpsAGLabGe+ZYfI0a pd92mNllrw2f65vtrkgMNZ6DjYJi54M= Received: from mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (mimecast-mx01.redhat.com [209.132.183.4]) (Using TLS) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP id us-mta-253-G9KKZGWgMreyze7BM2wQ4w-1; Tue, 10 Aug 2021 02:01:54 -0400 X-MC-Unique: G9KKZGWgMreyze7BM2wQ4w-1 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.12]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CDBCC801A92; Tue, 10 Aug 2021 06:01:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sirius.home.kraxel.org (unknown [10.39.193.3]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 86A7860C05; Tue, 10 Aug 2021 06:01:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by sirius.home.kraxel.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C86CA18003AA; Tue, 10 Aug 2021 08:01:50 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 08:01:50 +0200 From: "Gerd Hoffmann" To: devel@edk2.groups.io, chris.willing@linux.com Cc: James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com, ardb+tianocore@kernel.org, jiewen.yao@intel.com Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH 1/1] OvmfPkg PlatformBootManagerLib: Move TryRunningQemuKernel() Message-ID: <20210810060150.2fjakuteasiujwmn@sirius.home.kraxel.org> References: <20210728020232.127332-1-chris.willing@linux.com> <1695D2E15A92C8E7.3876@groups.io> <62f9ffa0-786f-09dd-9546-c4c118fa2a17@linux.com> <1b544f28-b5b9-c08c-bab7-8c1f41778dce@linux.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1b544f28-b5b9-c08c-bab7-8c1f41778dce@linux.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.12 Authentication-Results: relay.mimecast.com; auth=pass smtp.auth=CUSA124A263 smtp.mailfrom=kraxel@redhat.com X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Hi, > insmod /lib/modules/5.13.8/kernel/fs/jbd2/jbd2.ko > insmod /lib/modules/5.13.8/kernel/fs/mbcache.ko > insmod /lib/modules/5.13.8/kernel/fs/ext4/ext4.ko > mount: mounting /dev/sda2 on /mnt failed: No such file or directory > ERROR: No /sbin/init found on rootdev (or not mounted). Trouble ahead. > You can try to fix it. Type 'exit' when things are done. > > At that point I'm dropped into a recovery shell to try fixing something > but there's nothing that can be done since the disk containing the OS is > not visible. > From the above, I think I've done everything possible to verify the > problem and a possible fix. Is there something fundamentally wrong in > the way I'm going about this? Root cause is not clear. Grab the kernel log ('dmesg') from a good and a bad boot and comparing them should give a clue. take care, Gerd