Bug#1021919: virtionet device not found in debian testing netinst ISO 20221017

[Laurent GUERBY]

Package: debian-installer
Severity: important

Hi,

Trying to install the testing netinst ISO in a VM (in proxmox):

https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-cd/debian-te
sting-amd64-netinst.iso

The issue is that the installer fails to find an ethernet card which is
there in lspci (virtio ethernet from proxmox).

Note : same VM under proxmox (just changing the ISO) finds the ethernet
card with officiel debian 11 netinst ISO.

Sincerely,

Laurent

[Cyril Brulebois]

Hi Laurent,

Laurent GUERBY <lau...@guerby.net> (2022-10-17):

> Trying to install the testing netinst ISO in a VM (in proxmox):
>
> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-cd/debian-te
> sting-amd64-netinst.iso
>
> The issue is that the installer fails to find an ethernet card which is
> there in lspci (virtio ethernet from proxmox).
>
> Note : same VM under proxmox (just changing the ISO) finds the ethernet
> card with officiel debian 11 netinst ISO.

I'm seeing BFP issues, similar to those reported here:
https://bugs.debian.org/1003210

except for the virtio_net module. Checking /var/lib/dpkg/status, it
looks like we have kernel-image from 5.19.11-1 and nic-modules from
5.19.11-1+b1, which would mean kernel and modules from a different
build, which was flagged in #1003210 as possibly problematic.

Looping in kernel maintainers to get some input, and debian-cd for
information given the way testing images are built…


Cheers,
--
Cyril Brulebois (ki...@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/>
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant