Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Ben Hutchings Newsgroups: linux.debian.bugs.dist,linux.debian.kernel Subject: Bug#945854: Please include additional virtio modules used for boot into initramfs for MODULES=most Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:30:02 +0100 Message-ID: References: X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-bugs-dist-request@lists.debian.org Sun Nov 16 23:21:17 2025 Old-Return-Path: X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.599 Reply-To: Ben Hutchings , 945854@bugs.debian.org Resent-To: debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org Resent-Cc: debian-kernel@lists.debian.org X-Debian-Pr-Message: followup 945854 X-Debian-Pr-Package: initramfs-tools-core X-Debian-Pr-Keywords: moreinfo X-Debian-Pr-Source: initramfs-tools Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha512"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-pegM+66vpPONX2MrVCS4" User-Agent: Evolution 3.56.2-7 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Sa-Exim-Connect-IP: 2a02:578:851f:1502:391e:c5f5:10e2:b9a3 X-Sa-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-Sa-Exim-Scanned: No (on maynard); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-Debian-Message: from BTS X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1937094 List-ID: List-URL: Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 59 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:19:27 +0100 X-Original-Message-ID: X-Original-References: <157506431555.23987.1518221263063864235.reportbug@s> <0f5885749f72a7eb801134f2bc6f752dff03c957.camel@decadent.org.uk> <157506431555.23987.1518221263063864235.reportbug@s> <0f5885749f72a7eb801134f2bc6f752dff03c957.camel@decadent.org.uk> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.bugs.dist:1270458 linux.debian.kernel:90092 --=-pegM+66vpPONX2MrVCS4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Josh, Sorry that I failed to actually send this reply to you: On Sat, 2020-01-18 at 17:20 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Control: tag -1 moreinfo >=20 > On Fri, 29 Nov 2019 13:51:55 -0800 Josh Triplett = wrote: > > Package: initramfs-tools-core > > Version: 0.135 > > Severity: wishlist > >=20 > > Please consider adding the modules needed for virtiofs to MODULES=3Dmos= t, > > to support booting a system from virtiofs. >=20 > Isn't this going to require more than just a module? I think we'll > need a new boot method to support a root that's not on a block device > or NFS. Now in 2025, I would add that I don't expect to add significant new features to initramfs-tools. If this is still an open problem for you then you could try using dracut, which is supposed to support virtiofs root already. Ben. --=20 Ben Hutchings Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers. - Leonard Brandwein --=-pegM+66vpPONX2MrVCS4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCgAdFiEErCspvTSmr92z9o8157/I7JWGEQkFAmkaW/8ACgkQ57/I7JWG EQkqSRAAhKwJuv6rzbg0evf9GFoOY4014KjQZYdC6DQgmruLBfWRZL0gp1oCLvSe rw59QlQhvL0cdb/K+cIexIqFj26vV6U68WlD4Lr2ActWUR83uOhDK7pcfK9taN1u 3pzfh3Fctr8jJwsTIBQDcklVmy6wABpT2BdEtpezmKVyEp4KnN8YRV0LVblbCaFO B1XoJLRR1FDeuWLSiAKJKBhpRdnIOx1VZ+obEknLOU/VFDRopPUY6sM1bp4nwem9 +A9b2zvVdoRXFfUeL0XactS1DVogKkQHGPfsSma1Vctta2Ph0MjzAniMPNZbAyEY PoDVuK7QdSmIbQzQMOjZUwqbG3vvFdUBGbQDMmhKHzgtJSUxWdIxTlxMQfADloIJ R+R1EmyrZeBBXX0PHW/K5++OJ5Z9BZjj8twXfF+zLX6Q37eIBOAl3/E0qAAnDyTH Mg61oeo6d9UDaSo9TWn4u5+I1tGAhP6DBp2s41cQ26WNpgZQEBefnsNgG4Uy8NNi xYG5W99z82Piw3mdxkjSubT9dC57E2VVwdZrpmOAeybX5ticP8OZkZl0WJeE/zYo IIfgi3cmFQx6SjNFjwL347Dc4/t2eSd9VN9sJFhUCG+aeOJxx6JuKzmPMjBwjm/I SHMYnTJYr61LTo2Z80S2UkgaZUVLc5HxoLRbe87nXvd2/+VO/OE= =Pn5s -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-pegM+66vpPONX2MrVCS4--