Re: Missing virtio modules for sparc64
On 17/03/17 11:33, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 03/17/2017 12:22 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
>> There is one issue I've found in that the debian-installer fails to
>> detect the installation CDROM hardware automatically.
>>
>> I was able to workaround this by selecting the option to load an
>> external driver, let that fail, then manually enter the /dev/vda device
>> which allowed installation to continue but something is preventing the
>> virtio-blk device being seen as a CDROM.
>
> It's most likely the same issue as the one we have with the vdisk block
> devices when installing inside a SPARC LDOM [1].
>
> Can you post the output of "udevadm info -q env -p /sys/block/vda" if
> /dev/vda is the virtual block device for your CD-ROM drive? If it
> doesn't include any indication of a CD device, you know why d-i doesn't
> detect the CD drive.
Yep, here she is:
~ # udevadm info -q env -p /sys/block/vda
DEVLINKS=/dev/disk/by-path/platform-ffe2d650-pci-0000:00:06.0
/dev/disk/by-label/Debian\x209.0\x20sparc64\x201
/dev/disk/by-uuid/2017-03-16-23-13-57-00
DEVNAME=/dev/vda
DEVPATH=/devices/root/ffe2d650/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.0/virtio0/block/vda
DEVTYPE=disk
ID_FS_LABEL=Debian_9.0_sparc64_1
ID_FS_LABEL_ENC=Debian\x209.0\x20sparc64\x201
ID_FS_TYPE=iso9660
ID_FS_USAGE=filesystem
ID_FS_UUID=2017-03-16-23-13-57-00
ID_FS_UUID_ENC=2017-03-16-23-13-57-00
ID_PART_TABLE_TYPE=sun
ID_PATH=platform-ffe2d650-pci-0000:00:06.0
ID_PATH_TAG=platform-ffe2d650-pci-0000_00_06_0
MAJOR=254
MINOR=0
SUBSYSTEM=block
USEC_INITIALIZED=4920671
~ #
Presumably the DEVTYPE=disk gives away that the device isn't correctly
being detected as a CDROM?
ATB,
Mark.
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