FYI. This happens on both alpha and arm64 from my tests. So possibly more architectures are affected if it is arch specific.
On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 at 21:52, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > On 12/21/20 10:42 PM, Witold Baryluk wrote: > > The device is there and supported by kernel, I can mount things manually > > (i.e. mount -t iso9660 /dev/vda /media), but installer simply ignores > > this device, even if I create symlink (ln -s vda cdrom). > > > > The workaround to selecting driver none, and pointing to /dev/vda seems > > still to work and only option. > > > > Can we get some fix in the debian installer for this? > > This reminds me of a similar bug we fixed in the kernel on sparc64 which > turned out to be two missing functions in the kernel for the vio driver > on sparc64 [1][2]. > > So it's probably a good idea to verify first that the virtio block device > driver behaves correctly in that sense and creates the proper mod aliases. > > Then debian-installer should be able to detect the CD-ROM block device > automatically. > > Adrian > > > [1] > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=36128d204b81c099b5779771127a5546eac549c9 > > [2] > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5bde2c9be701c4583f0a9243bd46590ec401bfba > > -- > .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org > `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de > `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 >
