Re: Debian 11 installer crashed and reboot
Hi Chuck,
On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 08:04:43AM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote:
> After some testing of the Debian 11 installer on Xen
> (using the debian-11.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso), I find that
> this image only supports installation into a Xen PV guest,
> the guest always crashes and reboots for either a BIOS
> or OVMF boot into an HVM Xen guest.
Could you report this to Debian's Xen team as a bug? Perhaps it is
as simple as needing different kernel options in the netinst
installer kernel given that the full install works under HVM?
The Debian Xen team is very under-resourced for human help and it
has been a long time since they have managed to keep the version in
stable to a recent and supported one upstream. If you run a Xen dom0
on Debian I think really you need to be building your own packages
or using the Debian Xen team's packages from sid.
The stable packaged 4.11 hypervisor is out of even security support
upstream so it's not really suitable for production use. I don't
think the Debian Xen team would recommend using it but would instead
suggest using their newer package that;s in sid (on stable) and
test/report bigs against that. But let's get this reported.
I'm not skilled enough in Debian package building to help the team
but I do still report bigs sometimes; for production use I am
building packages from newer upstream source.
For this problem I can't help as I don't run HVM guests (only PV and
PVH).
The Debian Xen team mailing list is at:
https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-xen-devel
Cheers,
Andy
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