Bug#495929: debian-installer: can not use a virtual optical drive (with VIOS 1.5) to install from
Package: debian-installer
Version: debian stable: 4.0r4a
Severity: normal
Situation:
- IBM p52a
- LPAR with diskspace served via VIOS 1.5 (an LV, not a physical disk)
- CD-ROM is a virtual optical drive served by VIOS LPAR, backed by iso-image of debian install
- virtual console accessed via HMC
The LPAR always succeeds in booting from the CD, e.g. the installer-screen appears.
In most of the cases during the CD-ROM detecting phase the installer says that it cannot use this CD-ROM to install from. Please note: NOT in ALL cases: in some cases it proceeds and starts to
install packages but then after a few fails with read errors.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-powerpc64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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