Bug#308565: Installation report
reassign 308565 debian-installer
retitle 308565 usb devices cause misconfiguration of RAID
thanks
On Wednesday 11 May 2005 07:32, Jonathan Santaana wrote:
> Comments/Problems:
> The installer complained several times about hardware for which it
> hadn't yet loaded the driver modules. Since most of these were (as the
> disclaimer mentions) loaded later in the normal course of the
> installation, it would be nice if it didn't complain about things
> (particularly network and SCSI drivers) where it knows it probably
> hasn't loaded the driver yet.
If you don't want these messages, then don't use "expert". It is not
needed for anything you did. (You may want to try booting the installer
with parameter "debconf/priority=medium" instead.)
> The problem came after the reboot step. During the installation, USB
> devices were probed before SCSI, and the floppy drive on the media tray
> was detected at this point. It was treated as a generic disk (I'm not
> sure if SCSI floppies are normally treated differently to hard disks -
> <http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/m68k/apbs04.html.en> seems to
> suggest that they aren't, but I don't know how much of that is
> m68k-specific); thus it got assigned to /dev/sda. The hard disks were
> detected after the Fusion SCSI driver was loaded, and became /dev/sdb
> and /dev/sdc. Unfortunately, after the reboot step, this changed; the
> hard disks were then /dev/sda and /dev/sdb, and the USB floppy wasn't
> detected by default.
This is a known issue which will be looked into after Sarge.
Thank you for submitting your installation report.
Cheers,
FJP
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