Bug#224494: ide-detect lockup
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Joey Hess wrote:
> This sounds like a kernel bug. debian-installer does load the piix.o module
> before ide-detect. It would be useful if you could install sarge to that
> computer by some other means than debian-installer (such as installing
> stable and upgrading), and see if it can boot the kernel from the package
> kernel-image-2.4.22-1-386, which is the same kernel used by debian-installer.
I do have it running unstable right now. I don't remember any of the stock
Debian kernels working. If I remember right, I used the one that was
installed by the netinstall image at http://nihonlinux.jp/release_en.html.
Then after a bit of work I got a 2.4.23 kernel compiled with the right
options (or close enough or maybe not, I'm not sure anymore.) Then I spent
a couple days getting a 2.6.0-test* kernel that worked right and updated
my fstab to mount the drive as a scsi device. I'll try that kernel image
and see what happens.
[Much later]
I don't seem to be able to get that kernel to work. Without the
initrd line in my lilo.conf it complains that it can't find the root fs.
With it in the config it looks like it goes into a loop trying to install
a module (net-pf? it could actually be a few messages going by REAL fast).
The 2.4.22-bf24 from the nihonlinux cd works fine though (it doesn't
appear to have an initrd though.)
> It might also be helpful if you could switch to virtual console #4 when
> d-i is loading the modules, and see what the last messages are from the
> kernel and installer before the hang.
I'll try that again. I don't remember it saying anything usefull.
The last message on console 4 is usually about hw-detect but the last
couple times I tried it it looks like the messages are wraping back to the
top of the screen (instead of scrolling) and getting munged, so I'm not
real sure what is what here.
Booting the cd with "linux DEBCONF_DEBUG=5" and switching to console 3 the
last message appears to be it installing siimage. The piix module is
listed about 3 modules before it locks up.
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