Bug#940801: Fwd: Re: Can't install a Debian 10 virtual system through netboot
Why this bugreport was created.
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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 19:15:09 +0200
From: Geert Stappers
To: debian-boot@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Can't install a Debian 10 virtual system through netboot
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On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 05:25:53PM +0200, Fred Boiteux wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to install a Debian 10.1 on a virtual machine (qemu) running on a
> host without Internet access, using the neboot system. I've setup net
> ressources to allow network boot on the VM, getting a grub menu where I can
> select Debian 10 installation. The VM then downloads linux and initrd.gz
> I've got from netboot.tar.gz (from here : http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/buster/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/netboot.tar.gz).
>
> I'm using a preseed file, where I've configured to use a local HTP mirror (a
> whole copy of debian-installer ISO : first using netinst image, then DVD-1
> image, as the CD images aren't available :
> https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/ is also serving
> netinst images, not full CD images...).
>
> The VM boots, starts debian-installer, which configures its network, then
> load additional components, but fail finding my [virtual] disk ! When going
> on the installed system, I can see that virtio_blk module isn't loaded nor
> available ! I've tried to find if a *virtio-modules*.deb package was
> missing, but no such package seems to exist for Debian 10 Buster.
>
> Do you have any hint about how to solve my disk detection issue ?
>
> Thanks,
>
Thank you for reporting this. Yes, that is a sincere "thank you".
Because things unknown being broken won't get fixed.
A half year ago (Hi you in Bcc ;-)
I was told about missing virtio_blk in Debian Stretch.
And was able to reproduce it (no virtio_blk module)
A test with a Debian Buster yield the module present and went on.
So now with the new report I'll have another look at it.
Groeten
Geert Stappers
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