Jared Rhine wrote: > I have access to a box on which D-I RC2 will install fine using the > linux24 target, but fails during the partition disk step with "no > partitionable media were found" when the linux26 option is used. > > It's a Tyan Thunderbolt 440GX/440BX box with 2x SCSI running on an > AIC-7896. aic7xxx itself seems to be properly detected and loaded > under D-I 2.6. > > I know the 440BX has a rich history of weirdness, which is why I'm not > filing this as a bug report (unless someone asks), though I couldn't > find a duplicate per se. Bug #242114 is described with similar > platform and history, but I'm pretty sure my issue here isn't the > partman overlapping partition problem. > > The box works fine under Ubutu Warty, and can be fdisk'ed, mke2fs'ed, > and accessed normally on both disks. > > Under 2.4, there's a relatively long pause during the aic7xxx > detection step, but it proceeds fine.
The aic7xxx driver is known to be busted in debian's 2.6.8 kernel. There are already a lot of bug reports about it. -- see shy jo
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