Bug#689528: please add virtio support for cdrom at install time
FYI. This happens on both alpha and arm64 from my tests. So possibly
more architectures are affected if it is arch specific.
On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 at 21:52, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> 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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