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Patching Debian 11 and 12 iso images to be Xen HVM compatible

Patching Debian 11 and 12 iso images to be Xen HVM compatible

Owned by Friedrich Möller, created
Last updated: Aug 07, 2024
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The Debian 11 and Debian 12 iso images have an installer that can crash when started in a HVM configured Xen virtual machine.

Here is a small tutorial how to patch the iso image to be installable. You need a linux environment and need to have the xorriso and initramfs-tools packages installed.

 

  1. Mount the original iso.

    mkdir CD sudo mount -o ro -t iso9660 debian-11.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso CD

 

  1. Copy the initrd.gz file that needs to modification to your local folder.

    cp -p CD/install.amd/initrd.gz .

 

  1. Unmount the iso again.

    sudo umount CD

 

  1. Extract the initramfs directory.

 

  1. Edit the start-udev script.

Comment out following line:

Change it to following and save:

 

  1. Re-pack the initrd.

 

  1. Create the patched installation iso.

     

  2. Clean up (optional).

 

This tutorial is based on a post from the debian-user list:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/08/msg01339.html

 

 

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