Bug#228654: installation-reports: ide-detect lockup on Alpha PWS500a
Sent this to the wrong address. Sorry.
On Wednesday 21 January 2004 09:19 pm, you wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 05:26:28PM -0600, John Lightsey wrote:
> > > Ah, so at no point did you pick "Install aboot on a hard disk" as an
> > > option from the main menu? Do you see this as an option? Is it listed
> > > in the wrong place in the menu (i.e., below "finish the installation
> > > and reboot")?
> >
> > It's not listed as an option on the menu. Should it be there from the
> > start or does it appear after doing something else?
>
> Just to confirm, did you download the sid image or the sarge (non-sid)
> image? Currently, aboot-installer is only present in the sid build of
> the CDs, since it has not yet been included in testing (and won't until
> it's frozen into beta2, AIUI).
Ahh.. That must explain it. I used the sarge-alpha-netinst.iso.
> I'm currently downloading the sid iso to verify that aboot-installer
> is really there, but it *shouldn't* have gone anywhere. :)
>
> > > Yep, this problem makes both my SCSI controller and my ethernet
> > > unusable under 2.4.24.
> >
> > Did any kernels work for you in the 2.4 series? I haven't had this
> > machine long, and none of the recent Debian 2.4.2x kernels have worked
> > for me.
>
> Kernels up through 2.4.19 worked reliably on all alphas that I know of;
> the DMA and PCI bridge problems first seemed to manifest in 2.4.20 or
> 21. This is of course not a great answer, given the security fixes in
> .23 and .24.
Well.... I just spent a few hours backing some changes out of
arch/alpha/kernel/pci.c and compiling a new 2.4.24 kernel, but I'm coming up
empty handed. The diff between 2.4.19 and 2.4.20 is 700000 lines long.
At any rate, this report should probably be closed. All of the installer
related issues have been addressed.
John
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