Re: release status
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 01:48:32PM +0200, Christian Leimer wrote:
> Joey Hess wrote:
>
> > Rick Thomas wrote:
> >> Bug#261460: Non-DHCP network config step of d-i is broken If you
> >> choose to manually configure the network (don't use DHCP) the
> >> installer keeps coming back to the "configure network" step, and if
> >> you force it to move forward, after the reboot, the network is not
> >> configured. This seems to be unique to OldWorld PowerPC hardware
> >> (I've tried it on two different types of OldWorld machines and it
> >> breaks identically on both of them. However, it works on a couple of
> >> NewWorld machines I tried it on.) Also, accepting the default of
> >> DNSserver==gateway makes it work OK. Verrry strange!
> >
> > I don't think this is powerpc specific, see bug #261527. Whatever it is,
> > it doesn't seem to affect many installs.
> >
> >> Bug#262201: PowerMac (OldWorld) - no driver for onboard SCSI
> >
> > It's not clear to me how many machine this effects.
> >
> >> Bug#262865: With two network interfaces after reboot uses the wrong
> >> one
> >
> > Does not seem like a common bug to me. Looks likely to have been a
> > discover version skew or something between the version used by the
> > installer and that in testing. (If so it's already fixed; the image you
> > tested is 11 days old after all.)
> >
>
> Hi I today tried the di form:
> http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/2004-08-04/powerpc/netboot/
> with BootX.
>
> It does not detect mesh and mace on oldworld. So there may be a problem in
> autodetect hardware on oldworld and loading the correct modules for scsi
> and ethernet. The mace driver I could choose from a list before DHCP config
> starts, which then works without problem. But the mesh I had to activate
> with insmod then I was able to install to my internal scsi disk.
A discover related problem maybe ?
> Since the most oldworld use scsi to boot it is very important that this
> works.
>
> Maybe 2.4 should be the standard for oldworld macs since I have a lot of
> problems getting a 2.6 kernel to work with quik.
2.4 is the default for the miboot oldworld floppies, which are the default
oldworld install. The bootx one depending on a non-free OS cannot be
recomended by debian.
> Also there should be a warning in the installer that quik works only with
> ext2 before I run into a problem trying to install quik on ext3 or other
> filesystems.
>
> And the installer should ask to reboot and not do it automatic after the
> config of the base system.
Well, i don't know how you boot, but asking is indeed the default behavior.
> Thanks a lot so far for the good work to the debian-installer developers.
>
> Only the bootloader is a problem for me now, quik does not install correct.
Work on quik only started recently, so this may be the reason for it. I would
very much like to have a better understanding of the 2.6 problem. Could you
tell me the module name involved and the pci id of the device that fail ?
Or you could check directly in :
/usr/share/discover/pci.lst
and fill a bug report against discover if it doesn't show up.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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