Bug#879106: debian-installer-utils: "list-devices disk" should consider persistent memory block devices
Hi Ard,
On 2017-10-19 02:41, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> When booting an .iso image via HTTP boot from UEFI, the .iso image will
> be exposed to the OS as a ramdisk via the ACPI NFIT table, and will be
> picked up by the existing NFIT code in the kernel, which will expose it
> as a /dev/pmemXXX device.
>
> For example,
>
> # blkid
> /dev/pmem0: UUID="2017-10-17-14-41-11-00" LABEL="ISOIMAGE" TYPE="iso9660"
>
> Currently, debian-installer will fail to find this block device, and
> complain that the installer media cannot be found.
>
> Please add support for pmemXXX block device nodes to list-devices so
> that they may be found automatically when using HTTP boot to install.
Fix proposed here:
https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer-utils/-/merge_requests/14
Note that for the pmem devices to work in the installer we also need to
add the relevant kernel modules to the kernel-image udeb:
https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/merge_requests/1167
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