Cross-posting to debian-boot and hope to get more responses. Please see the error message in the screenshot below. To reproduce,
- follow instructions by blahcat at https://blahcat.github.io/2017/07/14/building-a-debian-stretch-qemu-image-for-mipsel/ - KERNEL_NAME=vmlinux-4.9.0-9-5kc-malta BOOTSTRAP_INITRD=" http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian9.9/main/installer-mips64el/current/images/malta/netboot/initrd.gz " BOOTSTRAP_KERNEL=" http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian9.9/main/installer-mips64el/current/images/malta/netboot/$KERNEL_NAME " Does anybody know how to work around this or fix this? Thanks. Jun [image: image.png] On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 11:23 PM Jun Sun <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for quick reply, Yunqiang. > > For the installer bug, should we file a bug somewhere? Any pointer how we > might be able to fix it? Note the initramfs seems to find kernel module > just fine. > > Also, any pointer to the Debian9.9 no suitable kernel to install bug? > > Thanks! > > Jun > > On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 10:43 PM YunQiang Su <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Jun Sun <[email protected]> 于2019年5月20日周一 下午1:24写道： >> > >> > I'm following instructions below to build mips64el qemu image. >> > >> > >> https://blahcat.github.io/2017/07/14/building-a-debian-stretch-qemu-image-for-mipsel/ >> > >> > However, I failed to do so for various version with different reasons: >> > >> > First off, I can't find Debian9.2 which was what the author used >> anymore (any pointers?) >> > For current Debian9.9, I got an error at the end of installing base >> system, saying "there is no suitable kernel to install". Otherwise >> installation is fine. However, since there was no kernel installed, I can't >> find a suitable initrd to boot the image. >> > I also tried other versions, such as buster, an old 2017 stretch, sid. >> They all fail pretty early on due to "No kernel module found" error. See >> full error message below. >> > >> >> Ohh, I guess it is a bug of Debian installer, which cannot detect the >> qemu host type. >> Generally, you need to install 5kc-malta kernel flavor for mips64el, >> and 4kc-malta for mipsel. >> >> > Does anybody have a clue here? I'm especially worried about the >> failing in the latest buster release. >> > >> >> I guess the bug is still existing for buster. >> >> > BTW, in Debian8.11, there are no mips release at all, it seems. Are we >> dropping MIPS somehow? >> > >> >> There are only LTS support for jessie now, and mips* is not in the LTS >> arch list. >> >> > Cheers. >> > >> > Jun >> >> >> >> -- >> YunQiang Su >> >
