Sabayon Spinbase Installation on Hyper-V 2012R2

[WolfgangG]

Hi,

the last day I have tried to install Sabayon Spinbase on a Windows Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V.
The livesystem worked fine but the installation in a VM wasn't successful.
The reason : no hyper-v drivers in the installsystem.
Then I have modified initramfs and now I have a functional Sabayon under Hyper-V.
Please can you include the Hyper-V drivers in the installsystem?
There is another problem with anaconda. If you try to install a system in German, the installation fails because of
a problem with German "umlauts".

Thanks

Wolfgang

[lxnay]

what changes did you have to do to the initramfs to get it working?

[WolfgangG]

Hi,
We will make a short HowTo and put it here in the forum.

Greetings
Wolfgang

[lxnay]

Ok, let me know, because I can integrate the changes to genkernel so that it will work out of the box, if possible.

[WolfgangG]

Ok, here it is.
The creation of a new VM in Hyper-V follows the Standards.
Then boot from iso Image and Installation.
Don't reboot!
Follow the instructions

# vgchange -ay # mounten lvm
# mkdir /mnt/sabayon
# mount /dev/mapper/vg_sabayon-lv_root /mnt/sabayon/
# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sabayon/boot/
# cd /tmp
# mkdir initrd
# cd initrd
# zcat /mnt/sabayon/boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-3.10.0-sabayon | cpio -i -d -H newc
# mkdir lib/modules/3.10.0-sabayon/kernel/drivers/hv
# mkdir lib/modules/3.10.0-sabayon/kernel/drivers/net/hyperv
# find /lib/modules/ -type f -name "*hv*" | while read f; do cp $f `echo $f | cut -b2-200` ; done
# depmod -b .
# find . | cpio -H newc -o > /mnt/sabayon/boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-3.10.0-sabayon # replace the original version
# reboot

That's it.


Greetings
Wolfgang

[lxnay]

Could you please file a bug at bugs.sabayon.org then?
Please also state clearly the errors you get during boot without the hyperv drivers.
Are the drivers really needed to be found in the initramfs? Can't you just load them after the initramfs? (see "man modules-load.d").

[WolfgangG]

I forgot,
I have used Sabayon 13.11 spinbase(64Bit)

Wolfgang

[WolfgangG]

I will file a bug then.

The other way is to activate the hv* moduls in the kernel. That should solve the problem too.

Greetings Wolfgang