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

[Paul Telford <pxt@debian.org>]

On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, Joey Hess wrote:

> 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.

Thanks, it works now.


> > 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.


Ok, I dug into this one a little more.  With the 2.4 kernel
/dev/discs/disc0/disc maps to /dev/sda, my install target.  With 2.6 it
maps to /dev/hda, an ide-floppy, and /dev/discs/disc1/disc maps to
/dev/sda.  I'm guessing this has to do with the order in which the modules
load.  Would it be possible to force then to load in a specific order so
that the results are consistent between the two kernels?


Thanks,


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