Re: [Wg-test-framework] debian-installer failure with arm64 (was RE: laxton (softiron) boot failure with Debian linux-image-4.7.0-0.bpo.1-arm64)

[Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lennart Sorensen writes ("Re: debian-installer failure with arm64 (was RE: 
laxton (softiron) boot failure with Debian linux-image-4.7.0-0.bpo.1-arm64)"):
> Stretch in the archive currently has a kernel version of 4.8.11, so an
> installer booted with 4.7.8 is going to have a hard time finding working
> kernel modules.
...
> Maybe these would work better:
> https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/arm64/daily/netboot/debian-installer/arm64/

Yes, they do, much better, thank you.  There are still some alarming
messages on the console which I will take up with the
hardware/firmware folks, but d-i ran to completion and generated a
system which boots.

Is it the case, then, that the images here

> >  
> > http://ftp.debian.org/debian//dists/stretch/main/installer-arm64/current/images/netboot//debian-installer/arm64/linux

are simply useless now ?  They seemed like the obvious starting point
to me.  (The corresponding amd64 installer is what I used to install
stretch on an x86 machine fairly recently.)

Anyway, what I really want is a suitable combination of parts in
backports.  Should I expect this all to work if I use a backports
kernel ?

If so then I will try it again more systematically and report what
goes wrong - but IIRC[1] it's probably the same thing: not finding the
kernel modules.

Thanks,
Ian.

[1] If I Recall Correctly.

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