Confirmed! :-( Installing the SUSE Network and Storage drivers from the Optional Updates renders the OS unbootable. http://img.nux.ro/xR4-Screenshot.png -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nux!" <nux@xxxxxxxxx> > To: "Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS" <centos-virt@xxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Wednesday, 9 December, 2015 09:04:26 > Subject: Re: win2008r2 update on centos 6 host made system unbootable > This is pretty epic if true. > I'm installing some Fail 2008r2 now to check. > > Is your hypervisor running CentOS 6 or 7? > > -- > Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! > > Nux! > www.nux.ro > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Dennis Jacobfeuerborn" <dennisml@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >> To: "Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS" <centos-virt@xxxxxxxxxx> >> Sent: Wednesday, 9 December, 2015 00:00:28 >> Subject: Re: win2008r2 update on centos 6 host made system >> unbootable > >> On 09.12.2015 00:39, NightLightHosts Admin wrote: >>> On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 5:26 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn >>> <dennisml@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> today we ran into a strange problem: When performing a regular Windows >>>> 2008r2 update apparently among other things the following was installed: >>>> "SUSE - Storage Controller - SUSE Block Driver for Windows" >>>> >>>> Previously the disk drive was using the Red Hat virtio drivers which >>>> worked just fine but after the reboot after the update I just get a blue >>>> screen indicating that Windows cannot find a boot device. >>>> >>>> Does anyone understand what is going on here? Why is the windows update >>>> installing a Suse driver that overrides the Red Hat driver even though >>>> it is apparently incompatible with the system? >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Dennis >>> >>> Did you roll back the driver and did it work after that? >> >> I can't roll back the driver for that device because I can't boot the >> system. The only way I can boot into the system is by changing the disk >> type to IDE but then I cannot roll back the driver because the entire >> device changed. As far as I can tell the Suse version of the virtio >> block driver is incompatible with the incompatible with the system but >> right now I see no way to tell windows "Uninstall the driver completely >> for the entire system" so that on the next boot it would fall back to >> the old virtio driver from Red Hat. >> I tried installing the current stable drivers from this URL: >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Windows_Virtio_Drivers >> >> But Windows refuses and says the driver is already up-to-date. >> >> What worries me is that I want to update other win2008r2 guests as well >> but now fear that they will all be rendered unbootable by such an update. >> >> Regards, >> Dennis >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS-virt mailing list >> CentOS-virt@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
