Bug#249633: installation-reports i386 netinst expert26 problem with libata install

[Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>]

* Anders Lennartsson <anders.lennartsson@foi.se> [2004-05-18 18:09]:
> The S-ATA disk is not detected automatically. After manually loading
> the modules libata, sd_mod and ata_piix, the S-ATA disk was

This was with 2.6, right?

Can you please paste the output of the following two commands:
  lspci
  lspci -n

> were correctly identified as to the size, but not the partition types
> (file system types). I could only select existing partitions to be
> included as swap-space, or used for lvm or raid.
> 
> If selecting the disk itself in the partitioning menu nothing
> happened. After doing so, the same behaviour as described above
> persisted.

Yeah, the daily images are currently pretty broken due to a bug in
libdebian-installer - not all packages needed for the partitioning
tool are installed.  We're working on a fix for this.

> /dev/sda.  I used the 2.6 kernel on the d-i disk to be able to
> continue using libata since I suspect that the 2.4 kernel does not
> include the libata patch(?)

Our 2.4 kernel actually includes the SATA patch from 2.4.27-pre2, but
it seems there is no ata_piix module.
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com