Hi Robert, After digging a bit, I think my issue lies with the APT source I used. At work (ESXi host), netboot works because it points to a proper apt- mirror.
On the other hand, at home I frankenbuilt mine using the DVD iso and specifying debian-installer/allow_unauthenticated=true. I retried after pointing the APT mirror to, say, deb.debian.org, and everything went back to normal. So my advice is, can you check if your source http://spacewalk- test.swr.ard/ks/dist/org/1/Debian_Stretch/ was done properly? For reference, here were results for booting from borrowed initrd from DVD. In those tests, /dev/sda is successfully listed. in dmesg, after bsg has loaded: - lsilogic: Fusion MPT base driver 3.04.20 Fusion MPT SPI Host driver 3.04.20 - lsisas1068: Fusion MPT base driver 3.04.20 Fusion MPT SAS Host driver 3.04.20 - pvscsi: VMware PVSCSI driver - version 1.0.7.0-k /proc/modules yields a few ata modules, and depending on scsi controller in vmx: - lsilogic: mptspi, scsi_transport_spi, mptscsih, mptbase, scsi_mod - lsisas1068: mptsas, scsi_transport_sas, mptscsih, mptbase, scsi_mod - pvscsi: vmw_pcscsi, scsi_mod - ide0 vmdk attachment (removed SCSI controller): scsi_mod Mit freundlichen gruessen, Marc On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 1:42 PM, Paschedag, Robert <paschedag.netlut...@swr.de> wrote: > Hi Marc, > > which driver module has been used within your tests? In my version of netboot.tar.gz (initrd), the modules for LSI controllers (mptspi) were missing. > > So even on a simple VMware VM, no disks have been detected. > > Regards, > Robert > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Marc N [mailto:de...@rasqual.e4ward.com] > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 2. August 2017 13:38 > An: Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com>; Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org>; 867...@bugs.debian.org > Cc: Paschedag, Robert <paschedag.netlut...@swr.de>; debian- ker...@lists.debian.org; debian...@lists.debian.org > Betreff: Re: Bug#867898: debian-installer-netboot-images: debian- installer-9-netboot-amd64 scsi modules missing. Netboot image unusable > > Hello all, > > Steve, what is the suggested resolution then? > For testing, I booted the initrd's and kernels extracted from standard DVD and netboot iso's via PXE. While they cannot progress further for obvious reasons, by switching to tty2, /dev/sda does appear in the listing. Those do ship with the correct modules. > > 1/ What would be the negative aspect of removing the scsi modules from the > exclude-udeb-* lists, following the package mergers mentioned before? > > 2/ Also, I'm not too familiar with how the netboot is constructed, is there another way to have these drivers bundled in the netboot tar.gz (CONF.sh?)? > > Best regards, > Marc >
