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qemu: fix /cfg mount failure due to missing mkfs.ext4 in PATH - #1330
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The cfg.ext4 disk image was created but not formatted because mkfs.ext4 wasn't found. As sbin is not in PATH for an unprivileged user in Debian. This caused the VM boot to fail with "No persistent storage found for /cfg". Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe <[email protected]>
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The cfg.ext4 disk image was created but not formatted because mkfs.ext4 wasn't found. As sbin is not in PATH for an unprivileged user in Debian.
This caused the VM boot to fail with "No persistent storage found for /cfg".
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