<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 04 Mar 2016, at 23:50, Patrick <<a href="mailto:plafratt@gmail.com" class="">plafratt@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Thanks for the response. I had seen that StackOverflow post and done that a couple of days ago. I was hoping there was another answer, since I wouldn't be able to do that if I weren't using QEMU.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br class=""></div></div></div></div></blockquote>If you weren’t using Qemu I’d point you at netconsole. The first step in debugging panics is always to figure out what the panic is.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">When I looked at the output from QEMU a couple of days ago, the kernel was saying that it couldn't find a device to mount with the root filesystem. So I generated an initrd image on the host Linux system, and I used that on the guest which got me to a BusyBox prompt. But this was totally a hack, since I didn't even know if getting an initrd image was really the next thing I needed to do. I was hoping someone might be able to point me to something that might explain what to do to get the kernel to mount a device with the root filesystem.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br class=""></div></div></div></div></blockquote>You want to pass the ‘root=/dev/foo’ option to your kernel. Obviously change /dev/foo into whatever device you’re booting from.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Kristof</div><br class=""></body></html>