Re: Restore backup to KVM

From	Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Restore backup to KVM
Date	2017-09-26 17:40 +0200
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	Hi.

On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 01:12:52PM +0200, solitone wrote:
> On 26/09/17 13:01, solitone wrote:
> > It's strange, since it finds /dev/sda, i.e. the entire disk:
> > 
> > =========================================================
> > [    6.438693] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 188743680 512-byte logical blocks:
> > (96.6 GB/90.0 GiB)
> > [    6.469182] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
> > [    6.482421] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
> > enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
> > =========================================================
> > 
> > However, it then complains that /dev/sda1 does not exists

That's because you don't have any partitions on that disk. Partition
that's start with sector 0 is impossible.


> I've found out that if I specify /dev/sda like this:
> 
> $ qemu-system-x86_64 -hda alan_restore.img
> -kernel /vmlinuz
> -initrd /initrd.img
> -append "root=/dev/sda ro init=/bin/bash"
> 
> then it finds, checks, and mounts the root file system.

That's expected. Effectively you're using a filesystem on whole disk, so
root should be /dev/sda.


> However now it fails
> because it tries to mount /dev and /run on /root/dev and /root/run, rather
> than simply /dev and /run:
> 
> =========================================================
> [...]
> Gave up waiting for suspend/resume device
> done.
> Begin: Will now check root file system ... fsck from util-linux 2.29.2
> [/sbin/fsck.ext4 (1) -- /dev/sda] fsck.ext4 -a -C0 /dev/sda
> /dev/sda: clean, 434616/5898240 files, 15174007/23592960 blocks
> done.
> [   40.335292] EXT4-fs (sda): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> Opts: (null)
> done.
> Begin: Running /scripts/local-bottom ... done.
> Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom ... mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev
> failed: No such file or directory

Interesting. Do you have /root directory in your root filesystem?

Reco

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Restore backup to KVM solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2017-09-22 06:50 +0200
  Re: Restore backup to KVM Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2017-09-22 08:10 +0200
    Re: Restore backup to KVM solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2017-09-22 21:20 +0200
      Re: Restore backup to KVM Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2017-09-22 21:40 +0200
        Re: Restore backup to KVM solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2017-09-24 11:00 +0200
          Re: Restore backup to KVM <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-09-24 11:20 +0200
          Re: Restore backup to KVM Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2017-09-24 12:00 +0200
            Re: Restore backup to KVM solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2017-09-25 21:10 +0200
              Re: Restore backup to KVM Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2017-09-26 08:50 +0200
            Re: Restore backup to KVM solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2017-09-25 21:20 +0200
              Re: Restore backup to KVM Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2017-09-26 08:50 +0200
                Re: Restore backup to KVM solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2017-09-26 13:10 +0200
                Re: Restore backup to KVM solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2017-09-26 13:20 +0200
                Re: Restore backup to KVM Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2017-09-26 17:40 +0200
                Re: Restore backup to KVM solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2017-09-26 21:20 +0200
                Re: Restore backup to KVM solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2017-09-26 21:50 +0200
                Re: Restore backup to KVM Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2017-09-27 09:00 +0200
                Re: Restore backup to KVM "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-09-27 09:50 +0200
                Re: Restore backup to KVM Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2017-09-27 10:40 +0200
                Re: Restore backup to KVM solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2017-09-27 14:10 +0200
                Re: Restore backup to KVM solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2017-09-27 19:00 +0200
                Re: Restore backup to KVM Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2017-09-28 09:00 +0200
                Re: Restore backup to KVM solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2017-09-29 06:40 +0200
                Re: Restore backup to KVM Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2017-09-29 08:40 +0200
                Re: Restore backup to KVM Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2017-09-30 13:10 +0200
                Re: Restore backup to KVM solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2017-09-30 15:50 +0200
                Re: Restore backup to KVM Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2017-09-30 17:00 +0200

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