Package: debian-installer Version: 20190702+deb10u4 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
Running the installation inside a QEMU instance does not work in buster: $ virt-install --arch=s390x --name test --memory 1024 --disk none \ --extra-args=console=ttyS0 \ -l http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/buster/main/installer-s390x/ Starting install... Retrieving file kernel.debian... | 3.3 MB 00:00:00 Retrieving file initrd.debian... | 9.7 MB 00:00:01 Allocating 'virtinst-kernel.debian.mnba14e7' | 3.3 MB 00:00:00 Transferring virtinst-kernel.debian.mnba14e7 | 3.3 MB 00:00:00 Allocating 'virtinst-initrd.debian.2q88l_1j' | 9.7 MB 00:00:00 Transferring virtinst-initrd.debian.2q88l_1j | 9.7 MB 00:00:00 Connected to domain test Escape character is ^] [ 1.785649] Linux version 4.19.0-9-s390x (debian-ker...@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 8.3.0 (Debian 8.3.0-6)) #1 +SMP Debian 4.19.118-2 (2020-04-29) [ 1.786919] setup: Linux is running under KVM in 64-bit mode [ 1.788555] setup: The maximum memory size is 1024MB [ 1.790050] cpu: 1 configured CPUs, 0 standby CPUs [ 1.822704] Write protected kernel read-only data: 8976k ... [ 6.148235] mip6: Mobile IPv6 [ 6.148389] NET: Registered protocol family 17 [ 6.149302] mpls_gso: MPLS GSO support [ 6.151503] registered taskstats version 1 [ 6.152310] zswap: loaded using pool lzo/zbud [ 6.154776] AppArmor: AppArmor sha1 policy hashing enabled [ 6.780329] Freeing unused kernel memory: 684K [ 6.780784] Write protected read-only-after-init data: 20k [ 6.780870] Run /init as init process steal-ctty: No such file or directory Than just hangs there because of the problem with the serial port name. Installer tries to use nonexistent serial device /dev/ttyS1, while the real name is /dev/ttysclp0. Proposed fix is here: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/rootskel/-/merge_requests/2/diffs -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.4 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled
