On 17/03/17 11:40, James Clarke wrote: > On 17 Mar 2017, at 11:36, Mark Cave-Ayland <[email protected]> > wrote: >> 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? > > Nah, it would still be a disk, but you would have: > >> ID_CDROM=1 > > > What does `/lib/udev/cdrom_id /dev/vda` say?
Hmmm seemingly nothing: ~ # /lib/udev/cdrom_id /dev/vda ~ # ATB, Mark.
