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Bug#976808: d-i Alpha 3 seems unusable for qemu-system-aarch64



W dniu 08.12.2020 o 11:13, Alper Nebi Yasak pisze:
On 08/12/2020 12:26, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:

Both standard and graphical installer contain kernel modules for virtio
framebuffer. And both ignore video output forcing user to use serial
console. Also while 'standard' installer gives "d-i in screen",
graphical one gave just d-i on serial console.

/proc/consoles has only ttyAMA0

This only happens on arm64 ACPI systems with SPCR (QEMU VM is one) now.
The arm64 graphical installer should be working fine in this release
with device-tree systems, which do have tty0 in /proc/consoles.

So maybe there should be message "Debian is for SBC, please use $OTHER_DISTRO for servers/etc" on d-i website?

You can still work around it with "console=tty0". Even more, the ACPI
case is fixed on git (by explicitly checking /dev/tty0), but that didn't
make into this alpha release.

D-I has issues with AArch64/ACPI systems since probably forever.


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