Bug#796470: debian-installer: amd64 and i386 netboot/mini.iso do not boot on qemu
Package: debian-installer
Version: ?
Severity: important
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Dear Maintainer,
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/mini.iso
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/mini.iso
with website date "2015-08-13 10:40" do not boot in qemu
of Deban 8.1.
(As advised by Ian Campbell on debian-cd, i report against
debian-installer. But i do not know its version and reportbug
is unhappy that debian-installer is not installed.
So i have to create this bug mail manually from an older one.)
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How to reproduce:
Any senseful combination of
{i386 mini.iso, amd64 mini.iso}
x {qemu-system-i386 , qemu-system-x86_64}
x {-cdrom , -hda}
is broken currently. E.g.:
qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 512 -cdrom mini.iso -boot d
qemu-system-i386 -enable-kvm -m 512 -hda mini.iso
El Torito boot record and MBR properly lead to isolinux.bin which
gets stuck after its startup message. Famous last words are
"ETCD" or "EHDD", depending on -cdrom or -hda.
SeaBIOS (version 1.7.5-20140531_083030-gandalf)
...
ISOLINUX 6.03 20150812 ETCD
top shows qemu running at 103% CPU on a 4/8 core Xeon.
(I understand 1.03 cores are busy at 3900 MHz.)
debian-8.1.0-amd64-netinst.iso boots fine and installs.
The minis do not have the EFI boot equipment which netinst.iso
has. But i doubt that this is the reason.
I would normally blame it on the SYSLINUX version. But the
successful netinst.iso has in its isolinux.bin the string
ISOLINUX 6.03 20150107
So no major version jump to see.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.1
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
-- no debconf information
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