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Bug#867898: debian-installer-netboot-images: debian-installer-9-netboot-amd64 scsi modules missing. Netboot image unusable



Control: severity -1 important

Hi Robert & kernel maintainers,

Paschedag, Robert <paschedag.netlution@swr.de> (2017-07-10):
> Package: debian-installer-netboot-images
> Version: 20170615
> Severity: serious
> 
> Trying to perform a PXE installation with the debian 9 (stretch)
> netboot image and a Debian 9.0.0 Release DVD 1 (amd64) fails, because
> no disks get detected by the installer.
> 
> There are no "scsi" module .udeb files downloaded by the installer.
> Also the scsi-core-modules udeb package is missing on the realease
> image disk (DVD). I also cannot find it within your cd image search
> tool (https://cdimage-search.debian.org/). Searching
> "scsi-core-modules" does not find a package for the "amd64"
> architecture.

There's a udeb for amd64 anyway:
  https://packages.debian.org/stretch/amd64/scsi-core-modules-4.9.0-3-amd64-di/download

It seems to be used to build the cdrom initramfses on the following archs:
| kibi@armor:~/debian-installer/installer/build$ git grep scsi-core-modules|sort
| pkg-lists/cdrom/alpha.cfg:scsi-core-modules-${kernel:Version}
| pkg-lists/cdrom/amd64.cfg:scsi-core-modules-${kernel:Version}
| pkg-lists/cdrom/arm64.cfg:scsi-core-modules-${kernel:Version}
| pkg-lists/cdrom/i386.cfg:scsi-core-modules-${kernel:Version}
| pkg-lists/hd-media/armhf.cfg:scsi-core-modules-${kernel:Version}

(That's in src:debian-installer)

So it looks to me we only need to have the extra module in this udeb, and
the release images will automatically get it.


> The installation has been tried on a simple VMware VM with the LSI
> logic parallel controller. The driver that is used is the "mptspi.ko"
> module. This module (and other scsi) modules are missing.)

Kernel maintainers (in copy): maybe this wasn't added to one of the scsi
udebs because the module is below the drivers/message/fusion directory?

Feel free to steal the bug report away from us if the required change is
just about shipping extra .ko('s) into your udebs.


KiBi.

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