[Lguest] The meaning of /dev/vda

[ron minnich]

FWIW.

It can be sometimes easier to debug an lguest if you set up the initrd
to start and ash and provide you with a prompt. You are running out of
a ramfs at that point, and you can supply all the commands you need in
the initrd when it is built.

Then you test for existence of devices, e.g. cat /proc/devices, try
out mount commands, and so on.On our clusters here we actually run out
of initrd all the time; we don't ever mount / anyway.

Just a thought for debugging.

ron