Bug#244195: installation-reports

[Paul Verwayen <paul@kronk.cistron.nl>]

Martin,

Today I used de Debian Installer of 20040526.

There's still no detection of the Promise 20378 SATA.
Not with the 2.4.26, and not with the 2.6 kernel.

I've got Debian running now by installing first to
an IDE(PATA) disk, and then install the 2.4.26-2 kernel
and loading the "sata_promise" module, and then
copy everything to the SATA disk.

I recently installed Fedora on the same machine and
the installer detected the controller.

So, what's missing, is the loading of the sata_promise
module.

Good luck with the installer! Let me know when you
think my controller gets detected, then I will try
again.

Gr.
Paul Verwayen


Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Paul Verwayen <paul@kronk.cistron.nl> [2004-04-17 10:49]:
>
> > De installer does not detect the 2 harddrives ont the Promise 20378 SATA 
> > Controller.
>
>
> Since the last beta of debian-installer was released, a large number
> of changes related to SATA have been made.  In particular, we now ship
> a 2.4.26 kernel with (some) SATA support.  We're currently preparing a
> new test release of debian-installer (release candidate 1), and we'd
> appreciate it if you could try our daily image and tell us whether
> this works.  This will give us some time to make important changes if
> so requires before rc1 is released.  You can find current images at
> http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/
>
> We'd appreciate it if you could test this image and tell us if the issues
> you mentioned in your bug report have been dealt with, and in particular
> whether your SATA disks are recognized and work.  You can either boot
> normally (by pressing enter or typing "linux") and will get a 2.4.26 kernel
> with SATA, or you can type "linux26" and get a 2.6 kernel; both should
> work, and we'd appreciate feedback about both of them.  Thanks