Hi, Quoting Philip Hands (2022-05-12 10:14:46) > > So for some reason passwd/root-password-again is ignored. Above recipe > > works fine for other architectures and for some reason stops with above > > prompt on mips64el. Why? > > It seems that you are hitting a limit on the length of the command line. > > If you flip to one of the shells (Ctrl-A Ctrl-A 2) and do: > > cat /proc/cmdline Ah thank you! I probably missed that in the docs (this is probably screen running?). This is very helpful. :) > you'll see that most of your kernel commandline is missing. I'd guess > that's a limitation of mips64el. Probably best to specify a preseed > file in order to get round this limitation, either by url, or you could > try this: > > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed/EditIso#Adding_a_Preseed_File_to_the_Initrd Ouch... that's a very unexpected architecture specific limitation. Thanks a lot for your very quick help! I wasn't sure where to direct my d-i "bug" reports to. Context is, that I'm running d-i inside qemu to create bootable disk images that can then be used with autopkgtest-virt-qemu. So far amd64, i386, ppc64el and arm64 work well. I'm running into problems with the network interface on s390x but I'm maybe just driving QEMU wrongly. I assume that somebody is already running d-i in QEMU for multiple architectures somewhere as part of some d-i CI infrastructure? If that already exists, I'd welcome a pointer because I'm probably re-inventing the wheel here. :) Otherwise, feel free to close this bug report. Thanks! cheers, josch
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