Bug#868198: cdrom: CDROM detection fails for SATA drive in debian-installer
Package: cdrom
Severity: important
Tags: d-i
Dear Maintainer,
Debian installer from official testing build for 2017-07-10 from
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/jigdo-dvd/debian-testing-amd64-DVD-1.jigdo
fails on "detect cdrom" stage.
I write the image to my SATA drive as follows:
dd if=debian-testing-amd64-DVD-1.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=4M; sync
The reason is that installation media cannot be mounted, as verified
from Alt+F2 console:
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
mount: mounting /dev/sdb1 on /mnt failed: Invalid argument
But when I issue
modprobe isofs
mounting works fine, and the installation resumes after I repeat cdrom
detection.
At https://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/debian-installer/ in the section
"SATA driver can block access to CD drive in installations from CD" it is
written that "isofs" module is necessary in order that sata driver will let
access the device.
As it turns out, usb driver lets to access the device without "isofs" module.
Adding "modules=isofs" to kernel boot parameters gives nothing.
So, please make debian installer load this module automatically at an early
stage.
(Installing from SATA drive is a neccessity. No usb flash drive.)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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