Bug#291347: debian-installer: SiS5513 IDE Module doesn't work,, must use ide-generic or ide based systems won't work
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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