[Libguestfs] febootstrap: no ext2 root device found

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 04:42:00PM -0600, Steve Keller Savvco wrote:
> Hello-
>
> I've recently upgraded from OEL 6.4 to OEL 6.8.  Infiniband Hardware
> installed on the server prevents me from upgrading the OS version any
> higher.
[...]
> Running "libguestfs-test-tool" with Kernel (2.6.32-642.el6.x86_64); the
> results are as follows:
> 
> libguestfs-tools.x86_64       1:1.16.34-2.el6            public_ol6_u4_base
> (works)
> 
> libguestfs-tools.x86_64       1:1.20.11-2.el6            public_ol6_u5_base
> (times out with error "febootstrap: no ext2 root device found")
> 
> libguestfs-tools.x86_64       1:1.20.11-17.el6           public_ol6_u8_base
> (times out with error "febootstrap: no ext2 root device found")
> 
> libguestfs-tools.x86_64       1:1.20.11-20.el6           public_ol6_latest
> (times out with error "febootstrap: no ext2 root device found")

This is a very old version, but we're going to need to see the full
output of libguestfs-test-tool from at least one of the failed tests
to say anything more.

Rich.

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