Bug#315580: installation-reports: Dell Precision 370 unusable
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: 16/06/05 (I think)
Date: 23/06/05 17:00:00 BST
Method: CDROM (attempted netboot)
Machine: Dell Precision 370
Processor: Intel P4
Memory: 512MB, I think.
The initial boot works fine. There are then two different problems:
booting 2.4, the SCSI controller can't be detected: modprobe'ing the
aic79xx module reports:
aic79xx: no such device. Since the hard disk is a SCSI disk, this is a
show-stopper. Maybe the vendor has changed the PCI id, or some such
irritating thing.
So, I try boot linux26. This can't find the ide CDROM the sytem booted
off. Looking through logs, it seems that libata starts up, and then
hogs the interrupt 0x1f0-0x1f7 so that the ide probing fails:
"ide0: I/O resource 0x1f0-0x1f7 not free
ide0: ports already in use, skipping probe"
/proc/ioports shows its libata using that I/O resource. I can't find a
way to stop the isntaller using libata.
I then tried expert26 mode
Turning off the ata_piix module in the "Detect and Mount CD-ROM" step
seems to be a solution. Now the installer will apparantly load the
aic79xx module, but doesn't detect any of the attached disks.
/proc/scsi/scsi doesn't list any attached devices. I can't get
add-single-device to work any magic either, even having modprobed in
sd_mod and sg
So, I must admit defeat. Any hints on how I can get something working
on this machine gratefully accepted :/
Matthew
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Matthew Vernon MA VetMB LGSM MRCVS
Farm Animal Epidemiology and Informatics Unit
Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge
http://www.cus.cam.ac.uk/~mcv21/
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