fix: a test that aborts fails (exit status of the piped block), vminstall reads the ISO with bsdtar (no loop partitions in CI containers)

scripts/vmbootloadertest.sh

@@ -115,7 +115,11 @@ b="$(gssh uname -r)"
 step "DONE"
 stop_vm
 } 2>&1 | tee "$log" | tee >(sed -u "s/^/[$loader] /" >> "$TEST_LOG") | sed 's/\x1b\[[0-9;]*m//g'
+rc=${PIPESTATUS[0]}   # the test itself: an abort (exit inside the braces) must not pass as 0 failed checks
 fails="$(grep -c '^FAIL' "$log")"
+if [[ $rc -ne 0 && $fails -eq 0 ]]; then
+    echo "FAIL $loader aborted (exit $rc): $(grep -v '^$' "$log" | tail -n 1)" | tee -a "$log"; fails=1
+fi
 echo; echo "== $loader: $(grep -c '^PASS' "$log") passed, $fails failed (log: $log)"
 grep '^FAIL' "$log"
 exit "$fails"

scripts/vminstall.sh

@@ -88,7 +88,15 @@ boot="$VM_DIR/iso-boot"
 mkdir -p "$boot"
 # One loop setup at a time: parallel installs (vmtest.sh --install) otherwise get "Device or resource busy".
 exec 9> /tmp/vminstall-iso.lock; flock 9
-if ! command -v udisksctl >/dev/null && [[ $EUID -eq 0 ]]; then
+if command -v bsdtar >/dev/null; then
+    # No loop device, no udisks, no root: libarchive reads the ISO9660 image directly (a CI container has no
+    # loop partition nodes, so the mounts below can't work there).
+    mnt="$(mktemp -d)"
+    cleanup_loop() { rm -rf "$mnt"; }
+    trap cleanup_loop EXIT
+    bsdtar -xf "$iso" -C "$mnt" arch/boot/x86_64/vmlinuz-linux-cachyos arch/boot/x86_64/initramfs-linux-cachyos.img boot EFI 2>/dev/null || true
+    [[ -f "$mnt/arch/boot/x86_64/vmlinuz-linux-cachyos" ]] || { echo "bsdtar found no kernel in the ISO." >&2; exit 1; }
+elif ! command -v udisksctl >/dev/null && [[ $EUID -eq 0 ]]; then
     # No udisks (the WSL box, as root): a plain loop device and mount.
     loop="$(losetup -f -r -P --show "$iso")"
     mnt="$(mktemp -d)"

scripts/vmsuite.sh

@@ -96,7 +96,11 @@ for block in "$dir"/*.sh; do
 done
 vm_stop
 } 2>&1 | tee "$log" | sed -u "s/^/[$suite] /" >> "$TEST_LOG"
+rc=${PIPESTATUS[0]}   # an abort inside the braces must not pass as 0 failed checks
 fails="$(grep -c '^FAIL' "$log")"
+if [[ $rc -ne 0 && $fails -eq 0 ]]; then
+    echo "FAIL $suite aborted (exit $rc): $(grep -v '^$' "$log" | tail -n 1)" | tee -a "$log"; fails=1
+fi
 echo "== $suite: $(grep -c '^PASS' "$log") passed, $fails failed, $(grep -c '^SKIP' "$log") skipped (log: $log)" | tee -a "$log"
 grep '^FAIL' "$log"
 exit "$fails"