Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09
On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 2:23 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> Hello!
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> *snip*
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> * alpha
> - There have been reports about missing firmware for storage devices.
> The firmware required for these devices is located in the
> "firmware-linux" and "firmware-linux-nonfree" packages but currently
> don't have a floppy driver in debian-installer to load additional
> firmware. I will figure out how to build CD images including firmware
> similar to the images available for i386 and amd64.
> - The images now includes the pata-modules package so users previously
> missing PATA drivers should be able to install their machines now.
Hi, just summarising my experience with latest (10 May) media. I have
an AlphaServer 1200 with a couple of SCSI HDD and a couple of IDE HDD
running off a PCI card. It also has a SCSI CDROM and an IDE CD/DVD,
the latter running off the same PCI card.
I burned 2 copies of the CD image and put one in each CD drive. The
SRM console can only boot the SCSI drives, and I could successfully
boot the CD. When it got to the point of scanning for hardware, the
installer found the disc in the IDE CDROM (but not the SCSI drive) and
was able to continue the installation by using the second disc. It
found the Ethernet (tulip) as well.
When it came to disk partitioning, the installer could see the IDE
HDDs but not the SCSI ones. I was able to install onto the IDE drives
but since SRM cannot boot them that's not a full solution.
As previously, the installer asked me to install firmware from
removable media, in this case qlogic/1040.bin, and at some point I was
some output mentioning missing qla1280. So these SCSI firmware seem to
be the only real issue at the moment, assuming the required kernel
modules are also available.
Sorry for not posting logs. I could I guess post them by booting the
Debian 5.0 disk and mounting the one I am trying to install Deb 10 to.
If you think that would be any use, tell me. I don't want to fill up
the list with redundant material.
Thanks again for all the effort going into keeping Alphas alive!
Darren
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