Re: FWD: Re: does anyone care about sparc CDs for sarge?
Joey Hess schrieb am Sonntag, 11. April 2004 um 19:18:20 -0400:
> ----- Forwarded message from Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> -----
> On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 02:38:57PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 12:28:42PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > > Sparc CDs for sarge currently do not boot. Bug #243122. I've seen a lot
> > > of workarounds, and zero effort to fix the problem. If this problem
> > > remains in 2 weeks, then we will not ship sparc CDs as part of beta 4 of
> > > the Debian installer. Which puts us quite close to not including sparc
> > > CDs as part of the sarge release. If someone cares about this, you need
> > > to get busy and fix it.
> >
> > BTW, the installer is broken. It seems to expect the need to load cd
> > modules in order to detect a CD. However, the cd is already detected and
> > recognized by the kernel.
> >
> > Why is that?
>
> My mistake, the initrd doesn't contain the ide-cd module. That needs to
> be fixed. It used to be there. Someone must have removed that.
>
The initrd doesn't contain any module, just tested with the daily
builds. Installation stops/loops at cdrom-detection
--
Jörg Friedrich
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