Harald Dunkel wrote: > - hdparm was not installed. (If you install some non-standard > tools like pppoe, then you should install hdparm, too. I > would guess there are more users with an IDE disk than with > a PPPoE connection.) Hdparm is not necessary if the kernel detects your ide chipset and enables dma, which it does for both. Even if hdparm is necessary to turn on DMA on your disk, that does not prevent you from being able to install. Lack of pppoe support would make it impossible for some users to install at all. > - In partman I had selected "partition manually" and reiserfs > for the root partition. I also had set a label for the > root partition called "root". The label was set correctly. > But the generated /etc/fstab is > > # /etc/fstab: static file system information. > # > # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 > /dev/sda1 / reiserfs notail 0 1 > /dev/sda3 none swap sw 0 0 > /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 > /dev/sdd /media/usb0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 > > Especially note that there is no "LABEL=root" for / . I am not > sure whether labels for reiserfs partitions are supported here. > If not, then the option in partman-reiserfs asking for a label > might be obsolete. If yes, then LABEL=root is missing. AFAIK we're setting disk labels but have not switched to mounting with them, I think it's best to put this change off until after sarge since various things can (and in my experience, do) break with disk labels. > - In d-i I did not disable any of the suggested drivers. Especially > all ide-* drivers were kept enabled. The final system did not use > the expected amd74xx driver for ide, but ide-generic, i.e. dma is > off if you keep the defaults suggested by d-i. > > I don't think that this is correct. If I tell d-i to kick out > _all_ suggested ide drivers, then discover loads the expected > amd74xx at boot time, and dma is working correctly. I don't understand this; there is no connection between the code in d-i that loads all ide drivers and the code in the initrd of the installed system that does the same thing. I also don't understand why loading adma100, aec62xx, and alim15x3 before amd74xx would prevent amd74xx from taking over ide for its card, or why loading some other drivers and ide-generic later would change this. -- see shy jo
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