diff --git a/package/base/util-linux/util-linux.conf b/package/base/util-linux/util-linux.conf
index cbfca1443..21fe216c2 100644
--- a/package/base/util-linux/util-linux.conf
+++ b/package/base/util-linux/util-linux.conf
@@ -27,12 +27,21 @@ hook_add premake 5 "cp hwclock/hwclock.c{,.orig}; \
 	mkdir -pv ${CLFS}/var/lib/hwclock"
 # hook_add postmake 5 "mv -v ${CLFS}/usr/bin/logger ${CLFS}/bin"
 
+tmp1=`echo "$arch_machine" | sed 's/i.86/intel/;s/arm.*/arm/'`
+
 var_append makeopt " " "CC='$CC' CPU='$arch_machine' ARCH='$tmp1'"
 var_append makeinstopt " " "CC='$CC' CPU='$arch_machine' ARCH='$tmp1' DESTDIR='$root'"
 
 var_append makeopt " " 'HAVE_KILL=yes HAVE_SLN=yes'
 var_append makeinstopt " " 'HAVE_KILL=yes HAVE_SLN=yes USE_TTY_GROUP=no'
 
+# On arm, using libblkid causes qemu 0.9.0 to exit with the error
+#	lsi_scsi: error: readb 0x8
+# when mount tries to guess the fs type of CD images.
+if [ "$arch" = arm ] ; then
+	var_append makeopt " " "HAVE_BLKID=no"
+fi
+
 util_linux_postmake() {
 	rm -f $root/sbin/sln  # we are using sln from glibc
 	$CC $confdir/freeramdisk.c -o $root/sbin/freeramdisk