Re: Missing virtio modules for sparc64
On 17/03/17 11:40, James Clarke wrote:
> On 17 Mar 2017, at 11:36, Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk> wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Nah, it would still be a disk, but you would have:
>
>> ID_CDROM=1
>
>
> What does `/lib/udev/cdrom_id /dev/vda` say?
Hmmm seemingly nothing:
~ # /lib/udev/cdrom_id /dev/vda
~ #
ATB,
Mark.
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