Bug#340390: Installation report: disk detected with daily build
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 01:01:16AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Monday 05 December 2005 00:39, Ross Boylan wrote:
> > The latest (Dec 3) daily build seems able to detect my hard drive.
> > I got it via PXE booting.
>
> Glad to hear that. It was somewhat to be expected as the new images use a
> 2.6.14 kernel instead of the 2.6.8 (sarge) and 2.6.12 (etch beta1)
> kernels. Apparently your hardware just wasn't supported yet.
>
> Did you install Etch or Sid?
I thought the daily build was etch, but I don't know.
apt is getting packages from testing.
The kernel after (successful) reboot is 2.6.12-1-686 Sep 27
> If you installed Etch you will have gotten the 2.6.12 kernel by default
> which will probably cause problems during the reboot.
Somewhat oddly, no. But this is consistent with 2.6.12 working for
Knoppix and the Intel developer's statement that 2.6.12 had the
necessary stuff. It just not consistent with the failure of the
2.6.12 based etch beta 1 installer.
> If you installed Sid, you may run into problems with the generation of the
> initrd, although problems are more likely with older hardware than new.
Does this mean testing is a better choice?
>
> Please let us know if we can close your installation report now.
>
It might be premature to declare victory. The other wildcard is that
I was intermixing running knoppix and the Debian installer, both etch
beta 1 and the Dec 3 build. I observed "random" behavior. Sometimes
knoppix would be able to configure my network, and sometime (usually)
it didn't think I had a network.
One possible explanation is that previous actions (e.g., running
Debian installer, which did recognize the network consistently) may
have left the machine in different states.
Applying this same idea in reverse, perhaps running Knoppix, which
always recognized the hard drive, before the Debian installer, put the
machine in a state where the hard drive could be seen by Debian.
I expect I have at least one more run at the installation ahead of me,
so I can see how this plays out.
Ross
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