Package: debian-installer Followup-For: Bug #1116551 X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
The trigger making the aarch64 debian-installer always default to the newt interface on the serial console was found to consist of the addition of a preseed.cfg file to the installer's initrd. If no pressed.cfg is added to the initrd, the graphical installer frontend starts up and functions normally. When instead of the initrd preseed method providing the preseed.cfg via kernel parameter, e.g., 'preseed/file=/cdrom/install/gtk/preseed.cfg', the graphical installer not only starts up normally but also properly recognizes and uses the supplied preseed.cfg file. So this appears to be a functional workaround in aarch64 for the reported issue. It might be worthwhile to mention this functional difference of preseeding methods between architectures in the associated documentation. Regards, Paul -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.12 APT prefers oldstable APT policy: (990, 'oldstable'), (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-security'), (500, 'oldstable-proposed-updates') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.12.43+deb12-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC, TAINT_USER, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled
