On Sat, Apr 02, 2016 at 04:20:27PM +0200, Andreas Glaeser wrote: > >now I dd'ed the raw-image, made in vm-manager, onto my USB-stick and tried to >boot my >thin-client from it, here is what I saw. > >The yellow colour is real, I am not faking this, it's a defective monitor >cable. >It does not matter much, my experience so far tells me that because of too >tight > >security-restrictions on Debian-Testing, the image would probably not >be usable anyway, i.e. no packages or software-updates would be installable, >but >it normaly should boot up at least.
OK, that suggests a missing/not loaded driver for /dev/vda1 - either missing in the kernel image package (unlikely) or a buggy initramfs which is missing the driver or hasn't yet loaded it. >From the initramfs prompt, you might be able to debug this. What does lsmod say about loaded modules? Can you load the right module? etc... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "Since phone messaging became popular, the young generation has lost the ability to read or write anything that is longer than one hundred and sixty characters." -- Ignatios Souvatzis