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Bug#283983: installation-reports: ia64 rc2 businesscard w/ 2.6 kernel



Paul Telford wrote:
> When booting the 2.6 kernel on this arch my PS/2 keyboard has no input
> ability.  Works fine w/ the 2.4 kernel.  Serial console works, did not try
> USB keyboard.

This should be fixed in tomorrow's images, though I can't test it as my
ia64 has no ps2. I can provide a netboot image for ia64 if you'd like to
test it sooner.

> Additionally, the installer failed to recognize part of my preseed
> directive:
> 	d-i     partman-auto/disk       string /dev/discs/disc0/disc
> 
> and stopped at the screen asking me which disk to partition.  Changing the
> string to "/dev/sda" avoided that problem.  It works properly with
> either choice when booting 2.4.

I cannot reproduce this; I do daily ia64 autoinstalls using the 2.6
kernel and exactly that line to make it use the disk and it has always
worked.

-- 
see shy jo

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