Package: debian-installer Severity: critical Justification: breaks system unless you can boot another way and apply workaround
This is also a kernel bug, but I don't know how to send the report to both debian-installer (which needs to work around the problem or get questions on why an affected system will not boot on reboot after install), and the kernel (because that's where the source of the problem lies).
On my current system with a PCChips M599LMR motherboard, the install succeeded, but on reboot my cd-rw didn't work. modprobe ide-generic fixed that, and further investigation revealed that the module loaded by default (sis5513) has no effect. This means that even though the board is detected sis5513 the module required the ide parts of the system to work is ide-generic. For most people with an ide main hd rather than scsi, they wouldn't just have a non-funcitonal cd-rom they'd have an unbootable system, which is bad.
If you need more info about this system I'd be happy to provide it, and I am pretty sure that I have seen at least one install report on the mailing list that sounds like it wouldn't boot for this reason - unfortunately I didn't have a workaround at that time, so I didn't post anything.
Oh yes, this is using the rc2 netinst cd
-- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i586) Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-386 Locale: LANG=en_CA, LC_CTYPE=en_CA (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
(lspci -n; lspci) | sort
0000:00:00.0 0600: 1039:0530 (rev 03) 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 530 Host (rev 03) 0000:00:00.1 0101: 1039:5513 (rev d0) 0000:00:00.1 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0)0000:00:01.0 0601: 1039:0008 (rev b1) 0000:00:01.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS85C503/5513 (LPC Bridge) (rev b1) 0000:00:01.1 ff00: 1039:0009 0000:00:01.1 ff00: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] ACPI 0000:00:01.2 0c03: 1039:7001 (rev 11) 0000:00:01.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 11) 0000:00:02.0 0604: 1039:0001 0000:00:02.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP) 0000:00:09.0 0100: 1000:000f (rev 04) 0000:00:09.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c875 (rev 04) 0000:00:0a.0 0400: 109e:0350 (rev 12) 0000:00:0a.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt848 Video Capture (rev 12) 0000:00:0b.0 0200: 1282:9102 (rev 10) 0000:00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Davicom Semiconductor, Inc. 21x4x DEC-Tulip compatible 10/100 Ethernet (rev 10) 0000:00:0c.0 0401: 13f6:0111 (rev 10) 0000:00:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10) 0000:00:0c.1 0780: 13f6:0211 (rev 10) 0000:00:0c.1 Communication controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10) 0000:01:00.0 0300: 1039:6306 (rev a3) 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 530/620 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter (rev a3)
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