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Bug#1036215: installation-reports: PXE netboot x86_64 libvirt guest on aarch64 host



Hello,

following up here on the BTS for the benefit of those not reading #debian-boot.

On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 05:37:07PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Emanuele Rocca <ema@debian.org> (2023-05-17):
> > (B) failure to load the grub splash screen

[...] 

> >  sarzana dnsmasq-tftp[7413]: file /srv/tftp/bookworm/isolinux/splash.png not found for 192.168.122.7
> >  sarzana dnsmasq-tftp[7413]: file /srv/tftp/bookworm/splash.png not found for 192.168.122.7
> > 
> > The grub.cfg file under /debian-installer/amd64/grub/grub.cfg has the following
> > conditionals:
> > 
> >  if background_image /isolinux/splash.png; then
> > [...]
> >  elif background_image /splash.png; then
> > 
> > The splash screen is loaded correctly replacing either of those with
> > /debian-installer/amd64/boot-screens/splash.png instead.
> 
> Adding an extra conditional in there really doesn't seem appropriate at
> this point. Seeing how images/netboot/ is 745M, and how splash.png is
> 58K, I think I'd rather have it duplicated in a way that it's found in
> /splash.png for both text and gtk installers (/isolinux/splash.png could
> would be a weird location given the booting happens via GRUB).

Even better than duplicating the image, we can use a symlink instead, see:
https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer/-/merge_requests/32


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