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 .''`. lunar@debian.org : :Ⓐ : # apt-get install anarchism `. `'` `-
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