On 10/06/2015 08:55 AM, Martti Kühne wrote: > Kernel parameter root= appears to be missing. Unless you know for > absolutely certain that the early userspace is capable to figure out > the root partition on its own, you'd rather put it into your > bootloader's config. Thanks but I don't have any bootloader config nor need any[1]. The parameter should handle anything initramfs needs -append 'root=r rw rootfstype=9p rootflags=trans=virtio console=ttyS0' In my opinion with `root=r` it defines root, where `r` is the mount_tag: ` -virtfs local,id=r,path=/root/arch,security_model=passthrough,mount_tag=r,' the mountpoint is /root/arch (on the hostsystem) On the recovery shell I can type mount -t 9p -o trans=virtio r new_root/ and `r` does exactly what I want, it mounts `r` which is /root/arch on the host system to the `new_root` directory as a VirtFs Filesystem. So I don't know why I does not find `r` by itself: ERROR: device 'r' not found. Skipping fsck. ERROR: Unable to find root device 'r'. Do I have to 'swap' anything in here? MODULES="9p 9pnet virtio virtio_blk virtio_pci virtio_net" HOOKS="base udev block autodetect modconf filesystems keyboard fsck" [1] (see section Can 9p used as root file system?) http://blog.allenx.org/2015/07/03/virtio-9p-note/ Cheers Chris
