[Lguest] Creating distro root disk image

[Rusty Russell]

On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 19:01 -0500, Jason Yeh wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> I tried to follow the instructions given in lguest.txt on creating root
> image from distro iso. However, the instructions shed no light on how 
> the rootfile should be partitioned during distro installation. My 
> several attempts to create root image all failed with guest kernel 
> failing to mount root with error message:
> 
> 	No filesystem could mount root, tried: ext3 ext2
> 	.Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs ...
> 
> I tried with and without bootloader and with and without swap. All
> attemps were done with one huge root partition under QEMU.
> 
> My question is that how should the rootfile be partitioned during distro
> install running QEMU so it will be useable by lguest guest? Thanks.

Hi Jason,

	What does "file rootfile" give, and what was your lguest command line?

Thanks,
Rusty.