On 17/03/17 11:33, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 03/17/2017 12:22 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: >> There is one issue I've found in that the debian-installer fails to >> detect the installation CDROM hardware automatically. >> >> I was able to workaround this by selecting the option to load an >> external driver, let that fail, then manually enter the /dev/vda device >> which allowed installation to continue but something is preventing the >> virtio-blk device being seen as a CDROM. > > It's most likely the same issue as the one we have with the vdisk block > devices when installing inside a SPARC LDOM [1]. > > Can you post the output of "udevadm info -q env -p /sys/block/vda" if > /dev/vda is the virtual block device for your CD-ROM drive? If it > doesn't include any indication of a CD device, you know why d-i doesn't > detect the CD drive.
Yep, here she is: ~ # udevadm info -q env -p /sys/block/vda DEVLINKS=/dev/disk/by-path/platform-ffe2d650-pci-0000:00:06.0 /dev/disk/by-label/Debian\x209.0\x20sparc64\x201 /dev/disk/by-uuid/2017-03-16-23-13-57-00 DEVNAME=/dev/vda DEVPATH=/devices/root/ffe2d650/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.0/virtio0/block/vda DEVTYPE=disk ID_FS_LABEL=Debian_9.0_sparc64_1 ID_FS_LABEL_ENC=Debian\x209.0\x20sparc64\x201 ID_FS_TYPE=iso9660 ID_FS_USAGE=filesystem ID_FS_UUID=2017-03-16-23-13-57-00 ID_FS_UUID_ENC=2017-03-16-23-13-57-00 ID_PART_TABLE_TYPE=sun ID_PATH=platform-ffe2d650-pci-0000:00:06.0 ID_PATH_TAG=platform-ffe2d650-pci-0000_00_06_0 MAJOR=254 MINOR=0 SUBSYSTEM=block USEC_INITIALIZED=4920671 ~ # Presumably the DEVTYPE=disk gives away that the device isn't correctly being detected as a CDROM? ATB, Mark.
