BUG: rawhide installer does not autoload xenblk/xennet modules

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Tue Jan 8 17:20:18 UTC 2008


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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