Bug#992449: cdimage.debian.org: sr kernel module is missing on install media for arm64 which prevents installation in KVM guest
On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 5:40 PM Steve McIntyre wrote: > I'm curious why you might be seeing different. Could you share more > details of your setup please? > So I did some more digging and realized I forgot to mention that I was doing these builds using Packer (although an older version 1.1.3, current is 1.7.4). I realized there might have been some bug fixes in Packer and started testing using the newer version of Packer. After a few adjustments (namely, removing disk_interface and setting cdrom_interface to virtio-scsi in the template) this finally worked as expected. So now I have an even bigger reason to upgrade our templates :-) Feel free to close this bug as "not a bug" or whatever makes sense. Sorry for the noise! Thanks- -- Lance Albertson Director Oregon State University | Open Source Lab
Bug#992449: cdimage.debian.org: sr kernel module is missing on install media for arm64 which prevents installation in KVM guest
Hi Lance, Sorry to hear that you're having problems here :-( On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 12:49:05PM -0700, Lance Albertson wrote: >I forgot to mention that the mini.iso image located here [1] does appear to >work as expected FWIW. But the image found here [2] does not. > >[1] https://debian.osuosl.org/debian/dists/bullseye/main/installer-arm64/ >20210731/images/netboot/ >[2] https://debian.osuosl.org/debian-cdimage/11.0.0/arm64/iso-cd/ So, I'm surprised to read this. On release day I tested our arm64 media locally using qemu/KVM VMs on an arm64 host here. I've just booted the netinst media again now (debian-11.0.0-arm64-netinst.iso) and I can see the following modules loaded, clearly including sr_mod: # lsmod Module Size Used by virtio_net 53248 0 net_failover 24576 1 virtio_net failover 20480 1 net_failover nls_utf8 16384 1 isofs 49152 1 sr_mod 32768 1 cdrom 61440 2 isofs,sr_mod virtio_scsi24576 1 scsi_mod 221184 2 virtio_scsi,sr_mod virtio_blk 28672 0 virtio_pci 28672 0 virtio_mmio24576 0 virtio_ring28672 5 virtio_mmio,virtio_scsi,virtio_pci,virtio_blk,virtio_net virtio 20480 5 virtio_mmio,virtio_scsi,virtio_pci,virtio_blk,virtio_net I'm curious why you might be seeing different. Could you share more details of your setup please? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs." -- Mike Andrews
Bug#992449: cdimage.debian.org: sr kernel module is missing on install media for arm64 which prevents installation in KVM guest
I forgot to mention that the mini.iso image located here [1] does appear to work as expected FWIW. But the image found here [2] does not. [1] https://debian.osuosl.org/debian/dists/bullseye/main/installer-arm64/20210731/images/netboot/ [2] https://debian.osuosl.org/debian-cdimage/11.0.0/arm64/iso-cd/ -- Lance Albertson Director Oregon State University | Open Source Lab
Bug#992449: cdimage.debian.org: sr kernel module is missing on install media for arm64 which prevents installation in KVM guest
Package: cdimage.debian.org Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Dear Maintainer, While attempting to use either the net install or DVD media on an arm64 guest on bullseye, the installer is unable to find the installation media found on the ISO (cdrom). I was able to get to the prompt and attempted to load the sr module (cdrom driver) but the module is missing. This prevents installation for any user using the ISO images for arm64.
