Bug#510060: installation report for lenny d-i rc1 on silicon graphics O2

[Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>]

On Monday 29 December 2008, Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
> Comments/Problems:
> 0) only the internal ethernet board is recognized. The network pci
> board is not found by the first kernel. It is found after reboot with a
> final kernel;

Please try to find out why by comparing the output of lsmod and dmesg for 
the installer and installed system. My guess would be that maybe a module 
is missing in D-I.

> 1) fdisk give errors when creating a second partition (I found a
> workaround)
> 2) an unexistant partition 17 is displayed in partition list when
> selecting partition usage
> 4) information about PROM is slightly wrong

These should probably be discussed on the debian-mips mailing list as it 
is a port-specific issue (IIRC mips is the only port that does not use 
partman). Please make sure that any results are either implemented by the 
porters directly or communicated clearly to the D-I team.

> 3) no LVM and device mapper available at installation time (no big
> problem, I think)

If mips does not use partman I think lvmcfg can be loaded as an optional 
component. I'm not sure whether or not it should be loaded by default.

Cheers,
FJP