diff --git a/nixos/tests/installer.nix b/nixos/tests/installer.nix
index 50c6af485da..a1ee7646430 100644
--- a/nixos/tests/installer.nix
+++ b/nixos/tests/installer.nix
@@ -317,6 +317,7 @@ let
             texinfo
             unionfs-fuse
             xorg.lndir
+            (lvm2.override { udev = null; }) # for initrd (extra-utils)
 
             # add curl so that rather than seeing the test attempt to download
             # curl's tarball, we see what it's trying to download