Some more information on this topic. Today I used the cd I burned yesterday with i386 netinstall 110MB image from 20040523 for some further testing on the hw I mention above.
I changed in the bios to enhanced mode for both SATA and PATA. The boot with expert26 proceeded normally and I could perform the installation to some point. But when probing some hardware the system frooze. This behaviour is known to the kernel people, in particular J Garzik, but it was interesting to see the actual state of the kernel used on the d-i. After turning enhanced mode off for PATA and keeping it on for SATA, I continued with booting with expert26 and performing the install onto the SATA disk identified after manually modprobing the ata_piix module, which proceeded nicely until first reboot. Strangely enogh the existing partition types were not recognized the d-i made new filesystems wihtout a fuss. The 2.6.5-1-i386 kernel then panicked at first reboot because it couldn't find the disk (I think). I guess the module ata_piix didn't load correctly, as it didn't during the cd-boot. And thus the install couldn't complete. fter powering down and installing a new PATA disk and keeping the SATA I did a standard install to /dev/hda1 with /dev/hda2 as swap. Interestingly enough the installed kernel recognizes the SATA disk by loading ata_piix at boot time. This was 2.6.5-1-i386. Same thing with 2.6.5-1-686-smp, which I tested after installing it. So why does these kernels not load the correct modules from the d-i cd? Even grub on /dev/hda recognized the kernel on the not finished installation at /dev/sda1 that remained after my unsuccesful installation try. Grub was however unable to boot it and I came back into grub. I also tested the d-i 2.4 kernel, a 2.4.26 which doesn't have the ata_piix module. Some more installation details, in particular on net configuration. Booting with expert26 for a 2.6 kernel: During net configuration, the default question is dhcp configuration. By selecting <go back> one finds the question on dhcp or static, with dhcp as default. Booting with expert for a 2.4 kernel: During net configuration, one immediately is given the choice of dhcp or static. Ok so far. But selecting static and entering a valid ip-address the installer chokes and argues that the numbers are not valid, and each group has to be 0-255. After this one is returned to the same menu with the same values as one entered before. And this time they are accepted! I suggest that the behaviour for netconfiguration be independent of whether one selects a 2.4 or 2.6 kernel. And preferably being able to choose between dhcp or static as default, at least for expert mode. Of course the dhcp choice could be preselected so that a normal installation would only require one to press return. And then there are some annoying questions on turning on pcmcia support, which there is no hardware for. Anders Lennartsson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
