Hi, I wonder if the (untested) simple recipe below would work. It would confirm that the missing QLOGIC firmware was indeed the culprit.
I hope it will help ! Regards, JH Chatenet # download firmware-qlogic apt-get download firmware-qlogic # become root (to preserve rights) su - # install genisoimage (if not already) apt-get install genisoimage # mount the CD image mkdir my-mount-point && mount -o ro,loop debian-10.0-alpha-NETINST-1.iso my-mount-point # extract the initramfs mkdir my_workdir1 && cd my_workdir1 zcat ../my-mount-point/boot/initrd.gz | cpio -idv # add some firmwares dpkg --fsys-tarfile ../firmware-qlogic_20190717-2_all.deb \ | tar -xvf - ./lib/firmware/qlogic/1040.bin \ ./lib/firmware/qlogic/1280.bin \ ./lib/firmware/qlogic/12160.bin # rebuild the initramfs find . | sort | cpio --create -H newc | gzip -v9 > ../initrd.gz cd .. # rebuild the cdrom image mkdir my_workdir2 (cd my-mount-point && tar -cf - .) | (cd my_workdir2 && tar -xvf -) umount my-mount-point rm my_workdir2/boot/initrd.gz cp -a initrd.gz my_workdir2/boot/ genisoimage -o debian-10.0-alpha-NETINST-1-fw.iso -r -J -joliet-long \ -cache-inodes -l -alpha-boot boot/bootlx \ -V 'Debian 10.0 alpha w fw' my_workdir2