Bug#865425: debian-installer-9-netboot-mips64el: mips64el Malta netboot installer finds no installable kernel

[Bruno Bierbaumer <list@bierbaumer.net>]

Package: debian-installer-9-netboot-mips64el
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i

Dear Maintainer,

I wanted to install Debian Stretch mips64el in QEMU.
It seems that the netboot installer can't find any installable kernel for this architecture.
There is definitely linux-images for 5kc-malta in the repo and the same install procedure worked for both mips and mipsel.

Steps to reproduce:

qemu-system-mips64el -M malta -m 256 -cpu MIPS64R2-generic  \
-drive file=hda.qcow2,if=virtio,format=qcow2,index=0 \
-kernel vmlinux-4.9.0-3-5kc-malta \
-initrd initrd.gz \
-net user,hostfwd=tcp::22222-:22 \
-net nic \
-nographic \
-append "nokaslr"

The installer will show the error: No installable kernel was found in the defined APT sources                                                

Cheers,
Bruno


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.8
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.4.27-x86_64-jb1 (SMP w/3 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)