But using this QEMU emulation setup I tried to produce minimal examples of every possible failure type to help you debug your problem.
In that simple setup, QEMU emulates a system with:
/dev/vda
(v
is the indicator letter for virtio, if it were partitioned the partitions would be /dev/vda1
, /dev/vda2
, etc.)The possible errors you could get are:
Linux cannot read bytes from the disk.
This could be either because the disk is broken, or because you didn't configure Linux with