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Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)



W dniu 20.04.2020 o 17:38, Steve McIntyre pisze:
> Hey Marcin!
> 
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 05:36:30PM +0200, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
>> W dniu 20.04.2020 o 16:43, Steve McIntyre pisze:
>>
>>> Try the image at
>>>
>>>  http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/arm64-gi/
>>
>> Booted VM with it. Debian installer started on serial port still
>> despite selecting 'graphical install' in grub menu.
>>
>> Graphical display in meantime displayed only blinking cursor.
>>
>> Maybe it was because on aarch64 framebuffer is available after
>> 'virtio_gpu' kernel module gets loaded so d-i starts too early
>> to notice it.
> 
> Does /dev/tty0 show up in /proc/consoles in your setup? We might need
> to tweak that yet...


~ # cat /proc/consoles 
ttyAMA0              -W- (EC p a)  204:64
~ # 

Syslog:

Apr 20 15:41:17 entropy-source: haveged not needed: rng detected
Apr 20 15:41:18 reopen-console: Looking at console ttyAMA0 from /proc/consoles
Apr 20 15:41:18 reopen-console:    Adding ttyAMA0 to possible consoles list
Apr 20 15:41:18 reopen-console:    ttyAMA0 is preferred
Apr 20 15:41:18 reopen-console: Adding inittab entry for ttyAMA0
Apr 20 15:41:18 reopen-console: Restarting init to start d-i on the console(s) we found
Apr 20 15:41:18 init: reloading /etc/inittab
Apr 20 15:41:18 init: starting pid 261, tty '/dev/tty4': '/usr/bin/tail -f /var/log/syslog'
Apr 20 15:41:18 init: starting pid 265, tty '/dev/ttyAMA0': '/sbin/debian-installer'
Apr 20 15:41:19 debconf: Setting debconf/language to en
Apr 20 15:41:20 main-menu[284]: INFO: Falling back to the package description for brltty-udeb
Apr 20 15:41:20 main-menu[284]: INFO: Menu item 'localechooser' selected
Apr 20 15:41:21 debconf: Setting debconf/language to 
Apr 20 15:41:23 main-menu[284]: INFO: Menu item 'localechooser' succeeded but requested to be left unconfigured.
Apr 20 15:41:23 main-menu[284]: INFO: Falling back to the package description for brltty-udeb
Apr 20 15:41:25 main-menu[284]: INFO: Falling back to the package description for brltty-udeb
Apr 20 15:41:25 main-menu[284]: INFO: Menu item 'di-utils-shell' selected


Just before d-i started on serial line there was some message
about missing framebuffer.


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