Bug#233497: debian-installer: ieee1394 hd not detected : BIG PROGRESS
I've been able to access may ieee1394 drives.
Everything is fine as far as drivers are concerned, but with recent
kernels there remains some stuff to be done in user space. I think it's
what rescan-scsi-bus is for. I did it manually by
echo "scsi add-single-device 0 0 0 0" > /proc/scsi/scsi
and the hd'a are recognized under long path like
/dev/scsi/host0/……/target0/lun0/disc.
This long path is not so much a problem as d-i knows about them when
it's time to partition them.
You have to disrupt normal d-i process to have acces to a shell for
entering the echo command. After exiting the shell, the d-i finely goes
on, you can partition the disk and the system is installed on it.
Unfortunately I was unable to actually achieve the installation, because
yaboot.conf can't be written -- sid the error message. It's perhaps due
to my 800k bootstrap partition non being HFS formatted.
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