Bruce Walker wrote: > Comments/Problems: > This was an install on an IBM HS20 blade. It uses a USB CDROM and > floppy. Installation was ultimately successful, but... > > Using netinst CDROM, it loaded the kernel fine and started the > installer. After the HW detection, it could not see the CDROM to mount > it (at least it gave a nice prompt saying it couldn't find it, and to > hit enter to try again). lsmod revealed that usb-ohci was not loaded. > Loading it found all the USB hardware, but the installer still didn't > see cdrom when I tried to continue beyond the prompt. > > Workaround: as soon as the installer booted up to the language prompt > (before hardware auto-detection), activated an alternate console and > manually did modprobe to load usb-ohci and usb-storage (not sure if > latter would be required, but did it anyway). Then it was happy after > going through the hw detection, and the rest of the installation was > fine. hw-detect only loads usb-storage if it sees a usb bus. So the only problem is probably a missing PCI id for your USB controller in discover1-data. Could you send the necessary info? -- see shy jo
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