success report - dell gx270 with SATA disks
just filing a success report - the 'current' (2/24?) sarge bootcdimage
managed to install on my SATA-disks-only dell gx270. i'd been fighting it
for most of a week. i chose to try it one more time after seeing new
stuff roll into the archive last night - the 2/17 images had not worked.
one quirk i noticed - it never asked me for network configuration
information, at all. i had to go in post-install and edit resolv.conf and
/etc/network/interfaces by hand.
one other quirk - i installed with usb keyboard and mouse. asking to use
LILO bootloader seemed to harass 'discover' into running and putting the
system into an endless loop [some failures detecting hardware - maybe
vesafb? system has an nvidia fx5200 gfx card. i also saw some messages
about usb scroll by alongside the vesafb diagnostic message, along with a
some executable or another dumping core.] . i wound up re-starting the
installation and using grub instead. this is not terribly optimal,
obviously.
anyway, very glad to have this machine up and running - a week of work
lost fighting to get a usable installer with SATA support ;)
--elijah
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Thomas Poindessous wrote:
> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 15:25:40 +0100
> From: Thomas Poindessous <thomas@poindessous.com>
> To: Erich Waelde <Erich.Waelde@t-online.de>, debian-boot@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: netcfg broken? (20040224 image)
> Resent-Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 08:44:06 -0600 (CST)
> Resent-From: debian-boot@lists.debian.org
>
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 11:45:34AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > netcfg (0.47) unstable; urgency=low
> >
> > * Joey Hess
> > - Use three dots in ellipses for consistency.
> > - Link libiw statically. This is temporary, until there is a libiw-udeb.
> >
> > Joeyh, can you comment on this ?
>
> yesterday, i did a change to build/debian/control to add a dependance
> for libiw27. Please revert this change if you need.
>
>
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