Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Tags: d-i X-Debbugs-Cc: jmran...@hotmail.com
Dear Maintainer, Environment: - physical hardware is a Mac with an M1 processor, running MacOS - VM provided by QEMU-6.1.0 + patches for that processor, hidden in the hombrew installer for QEMU - using qemu-system-aarch64 - so arm64 VM on an arm64 physical CPU - reproduced with both debian-11.1.0-arm64-netinst.iso and today's debian-testing-arm64-netinst.iso - the ISO is made visible inside QEMU via its "-cdrom" command-line argument, which makes it visible under /dev/vda in Debian's installer - for simplification, no other virtual hard disk exist - Debian's normal "non-graphical, non-expert" install mode is used Error: - At installation step 4 (Detect and mount installation media), the installer fails to detect the ISO, and states "No device for installation media was detected". Solution: - to "Load drivers from removable media?", answer no - to "Manually select a module and device for installation media, answer yes - to "Module needed for accessing the installation media", select "none" - enter "/dev/vda" (or "/dev/vda1") as the device file to use - installation media is now detected, and installation continues. Would it make sense to add the various /dev/vd? to the list of locations already automatically probed? Thanks.