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Bug#689528: please add virtio support for cdrom at install time

From Witold Baryluk <witold.baryluk@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.maint.boot
Subject Bug#689528: please add virtio support for cdrom at install time
Date 2020-12-21 23:20 +0100
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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
<glaubitz@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 - glaubitz@debian.org
> `. `'   Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de
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Bug#689528: please add virtio support for cdrom at install time Witold Baryluk <witold.baryluk@gmail.com> - 2020-12-21 22:50 +0100
  Bug#689528: please add virtio support for cdrom at install time John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> - 2020-12-21 23:00 +0100
    Bug#689528: please add virtio support for cdrom at install time Witold Baryluk <witold.baryluk@gmail.com> - 2020-12-21 23:20 +0100
      Bug#689528: please add virtio support for cdrom at install time John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> - 2020-12-21 23:30 +0100

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