Hi, Martin.

On Wednesday, 18 August 2010 14:49:57 +0200,
Martin Kraus wrote:

> > I'm doing some tests in a KVM virtual machine with CentOS 5.5 and it
> > seems that GRUB is not recognizing the Virtio devices:
> > 
> > # ll /dev/vd*
> > brw-r----- 1 root disk 253,  0 ago 17 23:35 /dev/vda
> > brw-r----- 1 root disk 253,  1 ago 17 23:35 /dev/vda1
> > brw-r----- 1 root disk 253,  2 ago 17 23:35 /dev/vda2
> > brw-r----- 1 root disk 253, 16 ago 18 00:27 /dev/vdb
> > brw-r----- 1 root disk 253, 17 ago 18 00:32 /dev/vdb1
> > brw-r----- 1 root disk 253, 18 ago 18 00:32 /dev/vdb2

> I've never had any problems with installing grub on virtio. what is in
> your /boot/grub/device.map?

# cat /boot/grub/device.map
# this device map was generated by anaconda
(hd0)     /dev/vda


In Debian I had no problems, but in CentOS 5.5 I came across this when I
was doing some tests to convert an existing installation in another with
RAID-1.

Thanks for your reply.

Regards,
Daniel
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