Bug#300719: sarge installer is unable to mount any drive (ide-cd, ide-disk, etc.)
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: sarge debian installer, iso image from:
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/sparc/20050321/sarge-sparc-businesscard.iso
uname -a: <unable to execute uname>
Date: 2005 March 21st
Method: boot from cd image burnt on CD-RW
[power on, then] <Stop+A>
[OpenPROM] boot cdrom <Enter>
[SILO prompt] boot: <Enter>
Machine: Sun Blade 150 (with USB mouse and USB keyboard)
Processor: UltraSPARC-IIe 650MHz (sparc64 / sun4u)
Memory: 256 MB
Root Device: ? (for boot it's IDE CD)
Root Size/partition table: <unable to execute fdisk>
Output of lspci and lspci -n: <unable to execute lspci>
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked: [O] great!
Configure network HW: [ ]
Config network: [ ]
Detect CD: [E]
Load installer modules: [E]
Detect hard drives: [E]
Partition hard drives: [ ]
Create file systems: [ ]
Mount partitions: [ ]
Install base system: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Reboot: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
Initial boot is a pleasure. It just worked after pressing <Enter>
on the SILO prompt. No need to specify ramdisk size, or any other
esoteric options. Yummy :)
Finally my old problem (aka bugs #278215 <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=278215> and #248855 <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=248855&archive=yes>) is now resolved
and the USB keyboard works. So I can test what else doesn't work.
And indeed, there are some issues.
Most important is that even though ide-cd and ide-disk modules are
loaded (via insmod - seen this on vt3/vt4), no expected devices are
present. The following directories are empty:
[vt2]# ls /dev/cdroms
[vt2]# ls /dev/ide
So, obviously, "Detecting installation CD-ROM" step fails miserably.
However, I noticed some message about hotplug being loaded, whereas
I couldn't see devfsd anywhere in the process list. Not being sure
what's going on, I'm filling this report.
Wiktor Wandadchowicz
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