On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 02:28:42PM +0000, Richard Mortimer wrote: > > > On 19/02/2011 23:20, Jurij Smakov wrote: > >On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:06:04PM +0000, Jurij Smakov wrote: > >>On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:49:39AM +0000, Richard Mortimer wrote: > >>>[Cc'd to 611...@bugs.debian.org] > >>> > ... > >>>I tested with your netboot image and it exhibits the same behaviour > >>>as the official installer. The sym53c8xx driver does get loaded > >>>automatically. I'm pretty sure that this is a timing issue. I > >>>confirmed that all of the /dev/sd* files were present along with > >>>/dev/disk/* entries. > >> > >>Ok, I think the magic happens in the disk_found() function in > >>disk-detect.sh [0]. It looks like it will retry up to 3 times to see > >>whether devices have showed up (with list-devices disk), sleeping 2 > >>seconds between attempts... If it takes up to 7 seconds for driver to > >>initialize itself, we might be cutting it just a bit too short. > >>Unfortunately, I don't see how we can test it easily, as neither > >>netboot image nor miniiso contain the udebs, they are downloaded off > >>the network. > > > >Hm, if expert install mode offers an opportunity to drop to shell > >after udebs are downloaded, then we can probably replace the udeb > >containing disk-detect.sh with a modified one. Can you check whether > >it's possible? > > Yeah I can use "Go Back" at Set up users and passwords to get to the > installer main menu and then drop to a shell. > > I can likely modify any scripts in place if you give me pointers to > what you would like to change/test. > > To get things started I tried changing the number of retries from 3 > to 8 with > > sed -i 's/1 2 3/1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8/' /bin/disk-detect
Thanks, that's the confirmation I was looking for. We are going to push a patch for this to 6.0.1 as it is fairly non-controversial. > This detected the disks just fine. > > Regards > > Richard -- Jurij Smakov ju...@wooyd.org Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110220152533.ga2...@droopy.oc.cox.net
