Bug#990190: Debian installer 10.10 for ARM64 fails to boot on QEMU (Synchronous Exception at 0x0000000078465288)

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

Hi Bakhelit,

Thanks for your bug report!

On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 11:25:35AM +0000, bakhelit@gmail.com wrote:
>Package: debian-installer
>Version: 10.10.0-arm64-netinst
>
>Dear Maintainers,
>
>The "debian-10.10.0-arm64-netinst.iso" fails to boot on QEMU "virt" machine -
>it only produces this output:
>
>Synchronous Exception at 0x0000000078465288

Apologies, you've been bitten by the fallout from bug #990082 in
shim. We've just pushed out a very quick workaround for that which
will help with installed systems, but we've not yet created new
installation media including that change.

I'm currently working on a better fix with a new shim upload due
shortly, then I'll see what I can do in terms of generating new
media. As you've worked out, 10.9.0 media will still work on arm64 in
the meantime.

Apologies for the problem here. :-(

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