On Thu, 2015-02-26 at 06:00 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> (2015-01-06):
> > Hi Jean,
> >
> > and thanks for the report.
> >
> > Jean Weisbuch <jean@phpnet.org> (2015-01-05):
> > > Package: debian-installer
> > > Version: 20130613+deb7u2
> > > Severity: important
> > > Tags: d-i
> > >
> > > The debian-installer netboot image on wheezy is missing the module
> > > "./lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_spi.ko"
> > > which makes the mptspi module (which is used by VMWare virtual
> > > controller among others) unloadable with "Unknown symbol" errors on
> > > the dmesg resulting on the installer unable to detect the disk(s).
> > >
> > > As a side note, both the i386 netboot and the amd64 classic netinstall
> > > images contains the module.
> > >
> > > Taking the module from the netinstall amd64 iso and
> > > putting it on the initrd image solves the problem and the installer
> > > works fine then.
> > >
> > >
> > > It seems that the file has been missing for quite a long time :
> > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2011/03/msg00233.html
> >
> > It seems to have been fixed in:
> > | linux (3.14.13-2) unstable; urgency=medium
> > | …
> > | * Add scsi_transport_sas and scsi_transport_spi to scsi-core-modules udeb
> > | as optional so that these modules do not end up in two different udebs
> > | as dependencies. Remove them from the i386, ia64, powerpc and sparc
> > | definition.
> > | …
> > | -- Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jul 2014 21:05:08 +0200
> >
> > which has been merged as r21638.
> >
> > Should probably be reassigned to src:linux, and the following patch
> > against the wheezy branch should help? (I've verified these modules are
> > indeed shipped in the linux-image package; some others exist as well,
> > not sure they're worth shipping along…)
>
> Kernel-team: what's your opinion on this?
>
> I'm attaching a refreshed (debian/changelog…) patch.
I don't get it. The netboot image isn't supposed to have SCSI support,
it's supposed to download the SCSI module packages if needed.
As it happens, it does include usb-storage-modules and that depends on
scsi-core-modules, which now includes some of the traditional SCSI
transports. But that's an implementation detail.
Is anything broken in downloading of SCSI module packages? Or was this
just another case where the PXE files weren't updated at a point
release? The netboot image for Debian 7.8 amd64 works for me with
QEMU's SCSI HD emulation.
Ben.
--
Ben Hutchings
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