Bug#225370: step forward

[Giuseppe Sacco <giuseppe@eppesuigoccas.homedns.org>]

Il Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 01:53:16PM -0500, Joey Hess ha scritto:
> Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
> > You are right: with devfs=mount,dall the init process goes further and
> > the system stops since it cannot mount the CDROM.
> 
> Does the d-i initrd have a cdrom.o on it anywhere? I am not familiar
> with mac hardware, so I don't know if this is an ide or a scsi cdrom,
> but I do not see any cdrom modules at all listed in
> build/pkg-lists/cdrom/powerpc. Was this previously perhaps built in, and
> became modular in the new powerpc kernel?

No, the initrd do not contains such file. The hardware is an IDE dvd.

> > Detecting hardware...
> > Loading modules...
> > Detected module '[Unknown]' for 'Unknown MATSHITACD-RW CW-8121'
> > Detected modules 'sungem' for 'Apple Computer Inc. Uninorth GMAC'
> > Trying to load module 'sungem'
> > Could not load driver 'sungem' for 'Apple Computer Inc. Uninorth GMAC'
> 
> I don't know why, but the new powerpc kernel does not include a sungem
> module at all. I had to remove it from the modules list.

This need to be there. Actually no network and no cdrom (and not hw floppy)
cannot make Debian installed :-)

Anyway, are you sure that modules are working right with recent busybox? I
remember a problem, two months ago that prevented lo load modules. And lsmod
gives no output at all, actually.

Bye,
Giuseppe