[Bug 279754] Re: Intrepid fails to install onto virtio block device

2008-10-07 Thread Blinkiz
> Can you give me step-by-step instructions? Sure. I should have done it from the beginning of this bug report. Sorry about that. -- Steps to reproduce -- * Create a new image file with "qemu-img create myfile.img 5G". Default should be "raw". You can check it with "qemu-img info myfile.img". *

[Bug 279754] Re: Intrepid fails to install onto virtio block device

2008-10-07 Thread Blinkiz
Using a simple image file as block device and the installation will also fail. No need for LVM to reproduce this. I used the default "raw" as file format for the image file. -- Intrepid fails to install onto virtio block device https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279754 You received this bug notifica

[Bug 279754] Re: Intrepid fails to install onto virtio block device

2008-10-07 Thread Blinkiz
Temporary solution for this is to install intrepid without having the virtual hard drive accessed the virtio way. Just plain simple /dev/hda type. After installation is finish, I shutdown the machine and switch to virtio block device. The change to /dev/vda is not a problem because UUID is used. H