Bug#600789: debian-installer: Xen block device driver cannot be loaded

[Emmanuel Benoît <ebenoit@ebenoit.info>]

Package: debian-installer
Severity: important

I have tried to install both Sid and Squeeze from the provided Xen netboot images.

However, the installation cannot be completed since the installer does not detect the "disks".
I have tried loading the xen-blkfront manually. If I do, the following error appears in the kernel's messages:

[   80.560746] xen_blkfront: Unknown symbol xen_platform_pci_unplug

Note that the problem occurred on both the amd64 and the i386 version of the netboot images.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash