FS#17943 - installer doesn't work with virtio disks

Attached to Project: Release Engineering
Opened by Nicolas Doualot (slubman) - Thursday, 21 January 2010, 15:45 GMT
Last edited by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be) - Friday, 05 March 2010, 18:31 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category AIF
Status Closed
Assigned To Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2009.08
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
The installer doesn't detect virtio disk.

Steps to reproduce:

* Start a new virtual machine with qemu, using a virtio disk :
qemu -drive file="arch-base.img",if=virtio,boot=on -iso archlinux-2009.08-core-i686.iso ...

* Try to install archlinux on the disk.

The virtio_blk module is loaded, and we can manually create partition on the /dev/vda device.
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Closed by  Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be)
Friday, 05 March 2010, 18:31 GMT
Reason for closing:  Duplicate
Additional comments about closing:  dup of  FS#16050 
Comment by frederick_metzengerstein (metzengerstein) - Saturday, 06 February 2010, 13:40 GMT
A possible workaround is described in http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16050

So before running /arch/setup just type:

sed -i s/'\^sd'/'\^\[sv\]d'/ /usr/lib/aif/core/libs/lib-blockdevices-filesystems.sh

and it should work.

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