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.