Bug#543443: installation-reports: eventual success on QNAP TS-219
Simon, can you please respond to my email below. IMHO your
installation report can be closed because there's no bug in the
installer but I'd like to get a confirmation from you. Thanks.
* Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> [2009-09-19 17:49]:
> * Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> [2009-08-25 01:50]:
> > Booting with the serial console appeared to stop at the stage of starting
> > init; I never got a shell on the serial port, and d-i never got as far as
> > doing DHCP, for some reason (the server's logs indicate that it never received
> > a request). In the absence of a shell, I couldn't debug this.
>
> I cannot reproduce this. I just took a daily image and it boots fine.
> I first see the kernel messages, then "Starting system log daemon:
> syslogd, klogd." and then a black screen with a green cursos and a
> little bit later I get a window with DHCP.
>
> Can you please boot the installer again and see what happens?
>
> > At the "partition disks" stage, no disks were found or offered for
> > partitioning; dmesg reported that both SATA links were down.
> ...
> > I suspected that the serial console providing partial power to the board might
> > be causing problems, so I disconnected it before the first boot of the
> > installed system. As I'd hoped, both disks were brought up correctly
> > in the installed system
>
> So you're saying the disk didn't come up in d-i because of the serial
> connector? So can I ignore this issue?
>
> The way I read your report, there are three issues:
> - d-i doesn't start properly: I cannot reproduce this. I'd like to
> hear more info.
> - initrd size in my docs are wrong: fixed.
> - disk doesn't come up: caused by your serial connector.
>
> Right?
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> Martin Michlmayr
> http://www.cyrius.com/
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