Re: Can't install a Debian 10 virtual system through netboot
On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 07:15:09PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote:
> 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...).
Ah
> > 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.
Did that, got https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=940801#20
It needs now two other actions from me.
To be continued ...
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