Bug#285077: debian-installer: RC2: cdrom not recognized, RC1: ethernet tg3 and hard drives not recognized
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: (Debian installer RC2) Friday 10 Dec 2004,
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/rc2/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
uname -a: <The result of running uname -a on a shell prompt>
Date: Friday 10 Dec 2004, 11am CET
Method: CD Rom boot
Machine: Dell Precision 370 [1]
Processor: Intel P4 3.0 GHz
Memory: 2Gb DDR2
Root Device: SATA drive (SATA/AHCI) (Hitachi 7K400 SATA)
Root Size/partition table: No system installed yet :(
Output of lspci and lspci -n: (this is the output of another box with
the same configuration, that I managed to install following directions
found at [2])
[[
yoda:~# lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 925X Memory Controller Hub (rev 04)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 925X PCI Express Root Port (rev 04)
0000:00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
0000:00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d3)
0000:00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FR (ICH6/ICH6R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801FR/FRW (ICH6R/ICH6RW) SATA Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00fd (rev a2)
0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 01)
yoda:~# lspci -n
0000:00:00.0 0600: 8086:2584 (rev 04)
0000:00:01.0 0604: 8086:2585 (rev 04)
0000:00:1c.0 0604: 8086:2660 (rev 03)
0000:00:1c.1 0604: 8086:2662 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:2658 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.1 0c03: 8086:2659 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.2 0c03: 8086:265a (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.3 0c03: 8086:265b (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.7 0c03: 8086:265c (rev 03)
0000:00:1e.0 0604: 8086:244e (rev d3)
0000:00:1e.2 0401: 8086:266e (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.0 0601: 8086:2640 (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.1 0101: 8086:266f (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.2 0101: 8086:2652 (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.3 0c05: 8086:266a (rev 03)
0000:01:00.0 0300: 10de:00fd (rev a2)
0000:02:00.0 0200: 14e4:1677 (rev 01)
]]
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [ ]
Config network: [ ]
Detect CD: [E]
Load installer modules: [ ]
Detect hard drives: [ ]
Partition hard drives: [ ]
Create file systems: [ ]
Mount partitions: [ ]
Install base system: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Reboot: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
The initial boot process went fine.
At the CDRom detection it failed.
My CD drive is a : TEAC DVD+RW DV-W58E
This device was recognized properly by the RC1 version on the Debian
installer, but it isn't anymore with the RC2.
I encountered other issues when I tried the RC1 version on the same
computer. The SATA hard drives were not recognized so I wasn't able to
create any partition.
Also the Network controller (Broadcom Gigabit) wasn't recognized
properly.
(I installed a similar computer using a different network card then I
was able to build a 2.6.8.1 kernel with a working tg3 module, thanks to
the explaination found at [2]).
Bests,
Vivien
[1]
http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/precn_370?c=us&cs=28&l=en&s=dfb&~tab=specstab#tabtop
[2] http://wiki.osuosl.org/display/LNX/Debian+on+Dell+Servers
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Vivien Lacourba vivien@w3.org
World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org
W3C Systems Team
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