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wuischke

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From: Suisse Romande

Registered: 2007-01-06

Posts: 630

virtio supported by Arch installer?

Hi,

this morning I tried to install arch using the latest installation cd. (arch i686 on a Ubuntu 10.10 x86 host with qemu/KVM)

Everything worked fine until I came to the hard disk setup. Automatic setup failed. Manual partitioning worked, but there were no options when selecting a file system and mount point. Is this expected behaviour or should I file a bug report?

A manual install with chroot worked fine, btw.

Edit: The virtio-device was called /dev/vda.

Last edited by wuischke (2011-10-17 15:40:23)

Svinto

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Registered: 2012-01-15

Posts: 18

Re: virtio supported by Arch installer?

I had the same problem. Arch installation script fails to detect the virtual disk.

I solved this by doing an ugly hack to the script.
Adding the code echo -ne /dev/vda "" to the function "finddisks" in the file /usr/lib/aif/core/libs/lib-blockdevises-filesystems.sh solved the problem.

If you're interested you can see my my solution at: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=133623