Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 05:51:03PM +0200, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
>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.

OK. Can you edit the grub command line and add "console=tty0" before
starting please?

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
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