Hi Ard, On 2017-10-19 02:41, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > When booting an .iso image via HTTP boot from UEFI, the .iso image will > be exposed to the OS as a ramdisk via the ACPI NFIT table, and will be > picked up by the existing NFIT code in the kernel, which will expose it > as a /dev/pmemXXX device. > > For example, > > # blkid > /dev/pmem0: UUID="2017-10-17-14-41-11-00" LABEL="ISOIMAGE" TYPE="iso9660" > > Currently, debian-installer will fail to find this block device, and > complain that the installer media cannot be found. > > Please add support for pmemXXX block device nodes to list-devices so > that they may be found automatically when using HTTP boot to install.
Fix proposed here: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer-utils/-/merge_requests/14 Note that for the pmem devices to work in the installer we also need to add the relevant kernel modules to the kernel-image udeb: https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/merge_requests/1167 ema
