Hi! Please keep the bug report CC'ed.
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 10:55:32PM +0100, Jon Thackray wrote: > And yet further efforts. I rebooted using an Ubuntu CD, and checked what > modules were installed. It would appear that what is needed at least for > the PATA system on the 955 board (D955XBKLKR) is pata_marvell. > Unfortunately, this doesn't see the light of day until 2.6.25 kernels, > which is a shame given that it's needed for boards several years old now. > With this, and some other modules from 2.6.25 which I've been unable to > identify, I can see both PATA IDE discs and the CDROM on the same IDE > channel (although /dev/cdrom now points to /dev/scd0). I think this is > about as far as I want to go with this investigation, so unless someone is > prepared to produce a CDROM boot image (or a floppy boot image) that > contains the required modules, I shall be forced to use Ubuntu instead. Most SATA drivers can be set (using the BIOS) to use a compatible mode which would be supported, AFAIK, by the ide-generic driver which exists in d-i beta2. The current daily builds of the debian-installer uses the 2.6.25 kernel and ships the pata_marvell driver in the pata-modules udeb. The pata-modules is priority "standard" and is included on the CD-ROM but not included in the cdrom initial ramdisk. Thus making it unavailable until the content of the CD can be read (with a driver that would support it, for example). The ide-pci-generic module that is shipped in 2.6.25 has a command-line option "all_generic_ide" that will make it claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controller, which might fit your Marvell's. Could you please try to start a daily build of the debian-installer, specifiying on the boot command-line (use TAB to enter additional paramaters), the following: all_generic_ide=1 I am leaving the rest of your email as it contains information that have not been read by other followers of the debian-boot mailling-list. > To summarise, the problems are:- > > Lenny beta2 boot CDROM does not contain suitable CDROM drivers for this > board > Lenny beta2 boot CDROM does not contain suitable ethernet drivers for this > board > Lenny beta2 boot CDROM does not contain suitable ethernet drivers for an > SMC network card > Lenny beta2 boot CDROM does not contain suitable floppy drivers for this > board > because of this, it is impossible to save (and hence to forward) the > installation failure debug logs > > The same problems apply to the latest testing CDROM install > > The floppy install does contain the missing ethernet drivers, both for the > board and the SMC card > The floppy install does contain the missing floppy drivers > The floppy install does not contain the missing CDROM drivers > > There is therefore the possibility of adding the missing CDROM drivers to > the driver set for the floppy install > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jon Thackray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Jérémy Bobbio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2008 7:14 PM > Subject: Re: Bug#492051: Lenny Beta 2 installer failure > > > >Further efforts. > > > >I have now verified that the floppy drive is not faulty. The machine can > >boot from it. I have since acquired the Debian floppy installation system > >from http://linux.simple.be/debian/floppy and have been able to use it to > >detect all the network cards in the system (one SMC card which the testing > >latest and the lenny2 beta could not detect, and the on board Intel chip). > >The cd-drivers from this site were still insufficient to detect the CDROM > >drive however. > > > >So, one thing you will now be able to check is what network drivers are > >available from the floppy installer that are missing from the testing > >latest and lenny2 beta. > > > >One a system has been installed, I'll let you know what CDROM driver it > >has chosen, assuming it does choose one. > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Jon Thackray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "Jérémy Bobbio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 12:55 PM > >Subject: Re: Bug#492051: Lenny Beta 2 installer failure > > > > > >>I have now also tried a formatted floppy with no fie system (using using > >>fdformat) and a formatted floppy with an ext2 file system. All fail. I > >>can't save the data to /mnt, but have no way to get it out of the machine > >>from there. I've tried mounting other devices within the machine which I > >>know to contain valid linux partitions, but mount always replies > >>"mounting /dev/scd1 on /mnt failed: no such device" from a command such > >>as mount -t ext3 /dev/scd1 /mnt > >> > >>Since there seem to be around 100k bytes of logs it's not feasible simply > >>to transcribe them by hand. Is there any other way I can get them out of > >>the machine? > >> > >>----- Original Message ----- > >>From: "Jon Thackray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>To: "Jérémy Bobbio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 9:30 AM > >>Subject: Re: Bug#492051: Lenny Beta 2 installer failure > >> > >> > >>>Hmm, I formatted a floppy (FAT) and tried to save the debug logs to it. > >>>That also failed. So, is there some other format you want the floppy to > >>>be, or is there some other way I can get at the logs. There are no > >>>mounte file systems (haven't got that far yet), and the installer won't > >>>drive the ethernet so web save isn't an option. Where do I go from here? > >>> > >>>----- Original Message ----- > >>>From: "Jérémy Bobbio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>To: "Jon Thackray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 5:51 PM > >>>Subject: Re: Bug#492051: Lenny Beta 2 installer failure > >>> > >>> > >> > > Cheers, -- Jérémy Bobbio .''`. [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :Ⓐ : # apt-get install anarchism `. `'` `-
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