On Thursday, September 9, 2004, at 12:45 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Wednesday, September 8, 2004, at 09:18 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:On Wednesday, September 8, 2004, at 05:18 AM, Sven Luther wrote:Please try again with todays floppies,and if it doesn't fix the problem, we need to investigate what driver ismissing or something.I'll try the new floppies tonight.
I guess whatever it was is fixed now. Because I was able to download a set of floppies from
Index of /~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/floppy-2.4 Name Last modified Size Description ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Parent Directory 26-Aug-2004 21:35 - asian-root.img 10-Sep-2004 05:46 1.2M boot.img 10-Sep-2004 05:47 1.4M cd-drivers.img 10-Sep-2004 05:49 1.4M net-drivers.img 10-Sep-2004 05:50 1.4M ofonlyboot.img 10-Sep-2004 05:51 1.4M root-2.img 10-Sep-2004 05:52 1.4M root.img 10-Sep-2004 05:53 1.3M ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apache/1.3.26 Server at people.debian.org Port 80
The "ofonlyboot" has not changed. It reads and inverts the colors of the tuxmac, but never switches to text-mode screen from the inverted color tuxmac.
The boot floppy reads and switches to the text screen then asks for the root floppy, which it reads. It then asks for language (English) and location (US) (but not keyboard layout) then invites me to load drivers from a floppy. I gave it the "root-2" floppy and it complained about not being able to find any kernel drivers on that floppy. I chose <go back> and re-executed "load drivers from a floppy". This time I gave it the net-drivers floppy, and it was happy. Still thinking that we wouldn't get any where without the root-2 floppy loading (and being a bit bull headed anyway) I tried "load drivers from floppy" for the third time, and again fed it the root-2. It complained again about not finding any kernel modules. This time I told it to "continue without loading drivers" and to my amazement, it started decoding the stuff from the root-2 floppy! Curioser and curioser!
I think it was at this point that it asked for my keyboard layout, and suggested "European" as default, even though I had given it every reason to suspect that US-English was my preferred locale. I've reported this violation of the principle of least astonishment before.
It proceeded then to find my ethernet interface (remember I'd loaded the net-drivers floppy earlier) and do DHCP discovery on it. This succeeded, as expected. When it asked, I chose the uchicago mirror as usual, and it loaded the installer-components list (I think -- I didn't get the exact words) after which it *again* complained about not finding any kernel modules! I told it to continue anyway, and it started downloading and unpacking installer components from the uchicago mirror (presumably).
When it got done with that and moved on to the partitioner, it couldn't find any of my disks (not my IDE main disk or my SCSI Zip disk). The only IDE think it knew about was the CD-ROM drive. Exploring on the F2 console showed that it wasn't just the partitioner that was confused. There was no evidence of IDE or SCSI disks in /proc or /dev. (Same as last time -- no progress on that front...)
So I wrapped it up and took a tea break to write this report.I have to consider the check for kernel modules at inappropriate times to be a serious bug...
Enjoy! Rick