Bug#244539: firewire not supported
On 19 avr. 04, at 09:49, Colin Watson wrote:
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 09:07:56AM +0200, jp moins wrote:
De : "Colin Watson" cjwatson@debian.org
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 10:53:23PM +0200, JP Moins wrote:
Load installer modules: [ E ] -> sbp2 ieee1394 ohci1394 raw1394 (?)
missing to make external
[...]
I like my OS X.3 machine; I would love to run linux on the side, on a
removable FW drive.
This is doable, but the installer needs to provide the firewire
modules.
That's odd. All of the above, with the exception of raw1394, are built
directly into the current installer kernel.
Is raw1394 needed? If so, I'll gladly add it.
Colin,
OK, I can now report partial success. Here is an updated install status
<x-tad-bigger>Base System Installation Checklist:
See NOTE
Initial boot worked: [ OK ]
Configure network HW: [ OK ] (1)
Config network: [ OK ] (1)
Detect CD: [ OK ] (1)
Load installer modules: [ OK ]
Detect hard drives: [ OK ] (2)
Partition hard drives: [ ]
Create file systems: [ OK ] (3)
Mount partitions: [ OK ]
Install base system: [ OK ]
Install boot loader: [ E ] (4)
Reboot: [ OK ]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:</x-tad-bigger>
NOTE 1: The installer unfortunately reports it cannot find the following modules after hardware detection : sungem (apple uninorth gmac), ide-scsi, usb-storage.
This error message is confusing because in fact the kernel has those modules compiled in, so there is nothing here precluding the user to keep on installing. Reporting the network driver is missing on a netinst Cd doesn't build confidence...
NOTE 2: I dropped to the shell and did 'echo "scsi add-single-device 0 0 0 0" > /proc/scsi/scsi' as soon as my keyboard was properly setup.
Please note I experienced 3 attempts where, although the FW drive was recognised, any access to it was horribly long, like 15 secs for a simple 'ls'. I *believe* that in this case the thing to do is repeat the scsi add command. In this semi-working state, the log shows lines like:
ieee1394: sbp2: aborting sbp2 command
Read (10) 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00 <--- the Read (10) is the invariant part in these messages
ieee1394: sbp2: generating sbp2 fetch agent reset <---- which doesn't help much ;-)
Anyway a 4th attempt brought me a perfectly usable drive. I powered off the mac and drive before, dunno if it helped.
I think having to drop to a shell and *guess* the location of the drive is not so cool. I dialog box like "do you want me to scan for SCSI devices ?" would be fancier.
NOTE 3: I wanted to re-format the HFS the bootstrap partition. I don't think I found the HFS format in the list of available fs. I'll double-check that later on.
NOTE 4: yaboot config failed although the installer did correctly identify the bootstrap partition location. Failure could come from pb reported at (3). I am now investingating this.
Later,
--JPM
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