On 16/03/17 23:46, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 03/16/2017 11:24 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> I'm rebuilding the sparc64 installer image now and will hopefully post >> it shortly. > > Here they are: https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/debian-cd/2017-03-17/ > > Adrian
Great! I can confirm the patch works as expected in that the virtio kernel modules are now loaded upon boot - thank you very much! 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. The QEMU virtio-blk device is configured like this: -drive file=debian-9.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso,if=none,index=0,id=cd,media=cdrom -device virtio-blk-pci,drive=cd So I am definitely telling QEMU that the virtio-blk device is CDROM rather than HD media, but that knowledge somehow isn't getting to the installer? ATB, Mark.
