Bug#689528: please add virtio support for cdrom at install time
On 12/21/20 10:42 PM, Witold Baryluk wrote:
> The device is there and supported by kernel, I can mount things manually
> (i.e. mount -t iso9660 /dev/vda /media), but installer simply ignores
> this device, even if I create symlink (ln -s vda cdrom).
>
> The workaround to selecting driver none, and pointing to /dev/vda seems
> still to work and only option.
>
> Can we get some fix in the debian installer for this?
This reminds me of a similar bug we fixed in the kernel on sparc64 which
turned out to be two missing functions in the kernel for the vio driver
on sparc64 [1][2].
So it's probably a good idea to verify first that the virtio block device
driver behaves correctly in that sense and creates the proper mod aliases.
Then debian-installer should be able to detect the CD-ROM block device automatically.
Adrian
> [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=36128d204b81c099b5779771127a5546eac549c9
> [2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5bde2c9be701c4583f0a9243bd46590ec401bfba
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