On 17 Mar 2017, at 11:36, Mark Cave-Ayland <[email protected]> wrote: > On 17/03/17 11:33, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > >> On 03/17/2017 12:22 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: >>> 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. >> >> It's most likely the same issue as the one we have with the vdisk block >> devices when installing inside a SPARC LDOM [1]. >> >> Can you post the output of "udevadm info -q env -p /sys/block/vda" if >> /dev/vda is the virtual block device for your CD-ROM drive? If it >> doesn't include any indication of a CD device, you know why d-i doesn't >> detect the CD drive. > > Yep, here she is: > > ~ # udevadm info -q env -p /sys/block/vda > DEVLINKS=/dev/disk/by-path/platform-ffe2d650-pci-0000:00:06.0 > /dev/disk/by-label/Debian\x209.0\x20sparc64\x201 > /dev/disk/by-uuid/2017-03-16-23-13-57-00 > DEVNAME=/dev/vda > DEVPATH=/devices/root/ffe2d650/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.0/virtio0/block/vda > DEVTYPE=disk > ID_FS_LABEL=Debian_9.0_sparc64_1 > ID_FS_LABEL_ENC=Debian\x209.0\x20sparc64\x201 > ID_FS_TYPE=iso9660 > ID_FS_USAGE=filesystem > ID_FS_UUID=2017-03-16-23-13-57-00 > ID_FS_UUID_ENC=2017-03-16-23-13-57-00 > ID_PART_TABLE_TYPE=sun > ID_PATH=platform-ffe2d650-pci-0000:00:06.0 > ID_PATH_TAG=platform-ffe2d650-pci-0000_00_06_0 > MAJOR=254 > MINOR=0 > SUBSYSTEM=block > USEC_INITIALIZED=4920671 > ~ # > > Presumably the DEVTYPE=disk gives away that the device isn't correctly > being detected as a CDROM?
Nah, it would still be a disk, but you would have: > ID_CDROM=1 What does `/lib/udev/cdrom_id /dev/vda` say? James
