reassign 498879 lilo
severity 498879 wishlist
retitle 498879 lilo: please add support for virtio drives
thanks
On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 06:58:17PM -0300, André Luís Lopes wrote:
> Frans Pop escreveu:
> > Are you sure that the problem is XFS? It could also be that lilo does not
> > support KVM's /dev/vda. That would be my first guess.
> > If that is the case, the next question is whether the problem is in
> > lilo-installer or lilo itself.
> >
> > Can you repeat the installation with a 'set -x' added in lilo-installer's
> > postinst and send the resulting syslog?
> > Could you maybe also try / on XFS in an emulator (qemu, virtualbox or
> > vmware), i.e. on a "normal" hard disk?
>
> I'm not sure who's at fault here. But it seems it's lilo or
> lilo-installer as you suggested, as a new install under VirtualBox
> didn't demonstrated this problem and LILO was installed fine.
In the syslog of the installation done using virtio drives, the relevant
message is:
Fatal: Linux experimental device 0x04x needs to be defined.
So support for virtio drives needs to be added in LILO and
lilo-installer should just work. I am therefore reassigning this bug to
lilo.
If this is not fixed for Lenny, this should be documented as an
installer erratum.
Cheers,
--
Jérémy Bobbio .''`.
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