BUG: rawhide installer does not autoload xenblk/xennet modules

Don Dutile ddutile at redhat.com
Tue Jan 8 17:43:50 UTC 2008


Needs something like the attached patch file...



Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 12:16 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>> Jeremy Katz (katzj at redhat.com) said: 
>>> On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 21:32 +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>>>> I just tried to install rawhide/development to a xen domU with virt-manager,
>>>> and it seems current kernel (or xen drivers?) has a bug that prevents
>>>> anaconda/installer from autoloading the needed drivers.. 
>>> [snip]
>>>> "No driver found"
>>>> "Unable to find any devices of the type needed for this installation type."
>>>> "Would you like to manually select your driver or use a driver disk?"
>>> This could either be the xen kernel or the changes within anaconda to
>>> stop using kudzu.  Please file it in bugzilla so that it doesn't get
>>> lost in the noise of the list.
>> xenblk/xennet don't export any aliases that would cause them to get loaded.
>> So they don't get loaded.
> 
> That would do it.  Thus, file the bug against kernel-xen.  They should
> have modaliases so they can get loaded automatically 
> 
> Jeremy
> 
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