Re: 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.
>
> Well that is good news, I think this is the first indication we've had
> that SATA works with d-i.
yeah. :)
> > 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.
>
> Known problem, will be fixed in tomorrow's images.
fabulous.
> > 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.
>
> It sounds like the installer crashed.
it seemed to.
> You mention you have a USB keyboard. Did it also work after the reboot
> into the final system? This is something else we have fixed since beta 2
> and not tested for sure.
yes, it worked. it did take a minute - the keyboard i'm using
(dell-badged keyboard with usb hubs at the back corners - i think they
said it was a logitech when we ordered the hardware) took a while to show
up. i finally got some console messages about it finding the keyboard's
hub right around the time that the first console login prompt showed up.
elijah
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