Bug#360805: install: Unable to install from SATA CDROM
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 12:53:04PM -0700, Frank J Niertit wrote:
> Package: install
> Version: N/A; reported 2006-04-04
> Severity: critical
>
> When attempting to install Debian Sarge from a SATA CDROM the installation
> CD will boot and get to the point where it is trying to load a CDROM driver.
> It then either hangs or asks for a floppy containing drivers for the CDROM.
> Since it booted from the CDROM the hardware is obviously working. It seems
> that the installation system does not have the necessary drivers for a SATA
> CDROM and is thus unable to install.
Sarge has very minimal SATA support. What support it does have is
exclusively for harddrives. There is no support for SATA ATAPI devices
of any kind in sarge. To get that requires a much newer kernel, and
even then may require extra kernel parameters (I think 2.6.15 kernel
might work if passed libata.enableatapi=1 at the boot prompt). So
perhaps with that boot option, the latest etch installer beta might
work.
Really the issue is that until the last month or two, the linux kernel
didn't even support SATA cdrom drives. Sarge was released last summer.
Len Sorensen
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