elijah wright wrote: > just filing a success report - the 'current' (2/24?) sarge bootcdimage > managed to install on my SATA-disks-only dell gx270. i'd been fighting it > for most of a week. i chose to try it one more time after seeing new > stuff roll into the archive last night - the 2/17 images had not worked.
Well that is good news, I think this is the first indication we've had that SATA works with d-i. > one quirk i noticed - it never asked me for network configuration > information, at all. i had to go in post-install and edit resolv.conf and > /etc/network/interfaces by hand. Known problem, will be fixed in tomorrow's images. > one other quirk - i installed with usb keyboard and mouse. asking to use > LILO bootloader seemed to harass 'discover' into running and putting the > system into an endless loop [some failures detecting hardware - maybe > vesafb? system has an nvidia fx5200 gfx card. i also saw some messages > about usb scroll by alongside the vesafb diagnostic message, along with a > some executable or another dumping core.] . i wound up re-starting the > installation and using grub instead. this is not terribly optimal, > obviously. It sounds like the installer crashed. You mention you have a USB keyboard. Did it also work after the reboot into the final system? This is something else we have fixed since beta 2 and not tested for sure. -- see shy jo
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