Bug#689528: please add virtio support for cdrom at install time

2025-07-05 Thread Witold Baryluk
Package: debian-installer Followup-For: Bug #689528 X-Debbugs-Cc: witold.bary...@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, I just tested daily snapshot installed for amd64 for trixie, and it appears that some parts of this issue are fixed (I do not know when, probably years ago). For example qemu-system-x86_6

Bug#689528: please add virtio support for cdrom at install time

2020-12-22 Thread Witold Baryluk
> For the install time, isn't it trivial to use regular ide/sata cdrom > drive or an usb flash instead of more exotic ways? trivial? I don't know how to do that, and it does feel like a workaround. > Most of the time cdrom is only needed for the > installation, later on you can either > remove it

Bug#689528: please add virtio support for cdrom at install time

2020-12-21 Thread Michael Tokarev
22.01.2020 09:18, Witold Baryluk wrote: Package: debian-installer Followup-For: Bug #689528 Dear Maintainer, any progress on this, I still have this issue. Out of curiosity, _why_ this is necessary? For the install time, isn't it trivial to use regular ide/sata cdrom drive or an usb flash ins

Bug#689528: please add virtio support for cdrom at install time

2020-12-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 12/21/20 11:10 PM, Witold Baryluk wrote: > FYI. This happens on both alpha and arm64 from my tests. So possibly > more architectures are affected if it is arch specific. The virtio driver isn't arch-specific. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@deb

Bug#689528: please add virtio support for cdrom at install time

2020-12-21 Thread Witold Baryluk
FYI. This happens on both alpha and arm64 from my tests. So possibly more architectures are affected if it is arch specific. On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 at 21:52, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > On 12/21/20 10:42 PM, Witold Baryluk wrote: > > The device is there and supported by kernel, I can mount

Bug#689528: please add virtio support for cdrom at install time

2020-12-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 12/21/20 10:42 PM, Witold Baryluk wrote: > The device is there and supported by kernel, I can mount things manually > (i.e. mount -t iso9660 /dev/vda /media), but installer simply ignores > this device, even if I create symlink (ln -s vda cdrom). > > The workaround to selecting driver none, and

Bug#689528: please add virtio support for cdrom at install time

2020-12-21 Thread Witold Baryluk
Package: debian-installer Followup-For: Bug #689528 X-Debbugs-Cc: witold.bary...@gmail.com Hi, this is still broken with recent debian installer daily snapshots. The device is there and supported by kernel, I can mount things manually (i.e. mount -t iso9660 /dev/vda /media), but installer simp

Bug#689528: please add virtio support for cdrom at install time

2020-01-21 Thread Witold Baryluk
Package: debian-installer Followup-For: Bug #689528 Dear Maintainer, any progress on this, I still have this issue. I think the culprit might be in the `list-devices cd`, but the git / salsa organization of debian-installer is very convoluted, and I can't track it down where it is. Regards, Wi

Bug#689528: please add virtio support for cdrom at install time

2019-07-17 Thread Witold Baryluk
Package: debian-installer Followup-For: Bug #689528 Dear Maintainer, I encountered the same issue. The kernel and initrd on the installer CD (unofficial one for Alpha architecture), does detect attached drive (/dev/vda, and I did read it using dd without issues, and it has correct content, dd |

Bug#689528: please add virtio support for cdrom at install time

2019-01-22 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 01:17:04PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Looking to add these changes, as I've had similar requests from other > people too. But I'm struggling to get my qemu to actually boot such an > image! My command line is > > $ qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 2048 \ > -drive fil

Bug#689528: please add virtio support for cdrom at install time

2019-01-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 11:38:33AM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote: >On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 01:20:53PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> On Mon, 17 Mar 2014 03:32:41 +0100 Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> > I suspect all we need is to add virtio-modules-${kernel:Version} to >> > pkg-lists/cdrom/.cfg files. Qu

Bug#689528: please add virtio support for cdrom at install time

2018-12-10 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 01:20:53PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 17 Mar 2014 03:32:41 +0100 Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > I suspect all we need is to add virtio-modules-${kernel:Version} to > > pkg-lists/cdrom/.cfg files. Quoting for example the amd64 one: > > I agree. This should be done f

Bug#689528: please add virtio support for cdrom at install time

2018-08-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 17 Mar 2014 03:32:41 +0100 Cyril Brulebois wrote: [...] > I suspect the following happens: > - when booting on non-virtio cdrom, udebs are detected on the cdrom >and/or on the network, loaded, and the virtio-modules kernel udeb is >then loaded, and non-cdrom resources work fine (n

Bug#689528: please add virtio support for cdrom at install time

2014-03-16 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Control: reassign -1 debian-installer Hi Harald, and thanks for your report. Harald Dunkel (2012-10-03): > Package: installation-reports > > Boot method: CD > kvm -m 2048 -drive file=/export/storage/usba.img,if=virtio -drive > file=/var/tmp/debian-wheezy-DI-b2-amd64-netinst.iso,if=virtio,medi

Bug#689528: please add virtio support for cdrom at install time

2012-10-03 Thread Harald Dunkel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD kvm -m 2048 -drive file=/export/storage/usba.img,if=virtio -drive file=/var/tmp/debian-wheezy-DI-b2-amd64-netinst.iso,if=virtio,media=cdrom,boot=on -net nic,model=virtio -net tap -vnc :1 -usbdevice table