Bug#227114: 20040108 fails on ia64

[Richard Hirst <rhirst@linuxcare.com>]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 02:39:47PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Richard Hirst wrote:
> > The problem is that initrd-tools is not included on the netinst ISO.
> > The kernel doesn't depend on it, so that is correct.  Unfortunately
> > on ia64 we have do_initrd=yes so kernel-installer wants to install
> > initrd-tools.  Not a problem with the businesscard ISO because it just
> > pulls initrd-tools from the net.
> 
> I belive that I have checked in a fix to debian-cd's
> tools/generate_di+k_list to fix this. Manty will need to cvs up that
> file in his build tree.

Thanks Joey.

> > d-i manages to install a kernel then, but elilo-installer causes (at
> > least) one of my scsi disks to run down, and report 'Not Ready'.
> > 
> > I have two disks, sda (8/0) and sdb (8/16).  The errors are on sdb,
> > which I'm not installing to.  elilo runs
> > 
> > 	parted /dev/discs/discN/disc print | sed ....
> > 
> > when translating /dev/discs/ paths in to /dev/scsi/ paths.
> > 
> > Earlier in the install (partitioning disks) I was able to use parted to
> > print the partition table ok.
> > 
> > I havn't seen this problem with the businesscard ISOs, but the most
> > recent I tested so far was 20040108.
> 
> The ia64 udebs on the netinst CD you used have not been updated since
> then, so I don't know about this.

I'm putting this scsi error problem down to dying hardware.  I went back
to the 20040108 iso that I'm previously used, and am getting similar
(and worse) symptoms, only on one of the two disks.

So, I still think ia64 d-i is ok for beta2, assuming initrd-tools gets
included on the netinst ISO.  No new ISOs generated since 20040111
though.

Richard