Blinking cursor with Debian 12 auto-install on macOS M1

[FunTimeCoding]

Overview of the Issue

I want to pack a basic Debian 12. When starting the process, after entering the boot command, I see a black screen with a white cursor. I haven't been able to get more verbose details.

Reproduction Steps

packer build -machine-readable -on-error cleanup /Users/areitzel/Downloads/debian.json

Plugin and Packer version

2023/08/24 13:02:38 [INFO] Packer version: 1.9.4 [go1.21.0 darwin arm64]
2023/08/24 13:02:38 [TRACE] discovering plugins in
2023/08/24 13:02:38 [TRACE] discovering plugins in /opt/homebrew/bin
2023/08/24 13:02:38 [INFO] Discovered potential plugin: qemu = /opt/homebrew/bin/github.com/hashicorp/qemu/packer-plugin-qemu_v1.0.9_x5.0_darwin_arm64
2023/08/24 13:02:38 [INFO] found external [-packer-default-plugin-name-] builders from qemu plugin
2023/08/24 13:02:38 [INFO] PACKER_CONFIG env var not set; checking the default config file path
2023/08/24 13:02:38 [INFO] PACKER_CONFIG env var set; attempting to open config file: /Users/areitzel/.packerconfig
2023/08/24 13:02:38 [WARN] Config file doesn't exist: /Users/areitzel/.packerconfig
2023/08/24 13:02:38 [INFO] Setting cache directory: /Users/areitzel/.cache/packer
2023/08/24 13:02:38 machine readable: version []string{"1.9.4"}
2023/08/24 13:02:38 machine readable: version-prelease []string{""}
2023/08/24 13:02:38 machine readable: version-commit []string{""}
2023/08/24 13:02:38 [INFO] (telemetry) Finalizing.
Packer v1.9.4
2023/08/24 13:02:38 waiting for all plugin processes to complete...

Simplified Packer Buildfile

debian.json: https://gist.github.com/FunTimeCoding/6a49aa9a219f1f7e041007598d853342

Operating system and Environment details

                    'c.          areitzel@armbp
                 ,xNMM.          --------------
               .OMMMMo           OS: macOS 13.4.1 22F82 arm64
               OMMM0,            Host: MacBookPro18,1
     .;loddo:' loolloddol;.      Kernel: 22.5.0
   cKMMMMMMMMMMNWMMMMMMMMMM0:    Uptime: 19 days, 20 hours, 6 mins
 .KMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMWd.    Packages: 236 (brew)
 XMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMX.      Shell: zsh 5.9
;MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM:       Resolution: 1728x1117, 2560x1080
:MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM:       DE: Aqua
.MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMX.      WM: Quartz Compositor
 kMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMWd.    WM Theme: Blue (Dark)
 .XMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMk   Terminal: iTerm2
  .XMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMK.   Terminal Font: Monaco 16
    kMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMd     CPU: Apple M1 Pro
     ;KMMMMMMMWXXWMMMMMMMk.      GPU: Apple M1 Pro
       .cooc,.    .,coo:.        Memory: 4337MiB / 32768MiB

Log Fragments and crash.log files

Packer log: https://gist.github.com/FunTimeCoding/21c4c9b901921c06b1e96daad237c3f9

What works

If I don't include auto url=... in the kernel parameters, the installer starts normally, but as soon as auto is in the play, the blinking cursor appears and the installer TUI doesn't start. I suspect something might be wrong with my network configuration. I don't know how to confirm its requesting the preseed.cfg. I've tried various permutations of different settings without success.

[bradleyd]

I get the same thing as well for aarch64 Debian 12.5. Using the same flags.