I don't know if SDA or SDB is the correct device or not.  It shows both 
during boot, but once it completely boots up after install, I can't do 
anything else because any command line access fails with an I/O error, 
so I can't cat dmesg or the messages logs after reboot.

Jeff

On 11/29/2012 3:18 AM, Arne Fitzenreiter wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 08:26:31 -0600, Jeffrey Lanham
> <bluezone(a)jlpaonline.com> wrote:
>> I tried installing under Windows Hyper-V 2008 R2. Installation
>> seemed flawless and it found the synthetic drivers and everything, so
>> that was good. Problem is, it installs to a 127gb sized hard drive
>> regardless of the size of the virtual hard drive installed on the
>> virtual machine, it seems to create this partition and shows the
>> actual hard drive as sdb. Then the web interface becomes unresponsive
>> and all commands entered on the command line show an I/O error. I
>> haven't gone through the logs to try to determine what exactly is
>> going on, but, it doesn't seem to like the result of installing on a
>> virtual hard drive. Very odd.
> Is sda you source device or a complete wrong device? Are you able to
> extract the output from the second console and the dmesg.
> Also the files in /sys/block/sda , /sys/block/sda/device and the same
> for the correct sdb are intresting.
>