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Bug#344268: installation reports: d-i cannot detect CDROM in Dell Inspiron 9300



On Wednesday 21 December 2005 12:33, Pelayo Gonzalez wrote:
> As stated before d-i cannot detect de CDROM. However Ubuntu Hoary
> (2.6.10) and Breezy installers works fine.

> Comparing lsmod output from d-i and Ubuntu,see below. I found that the
> module loading order is diferent. Ubuntu loads ata_piix before pcmcia
> and ieee1394, don't know if this is important so, I've tried booting

No, these two should be completely unrelated. What could make a difference 
is the order in which ide-generic and ata_piix are loaded.
You can try starting d-i in expert mode and loading only drivers needed 
for generic CD support after language/keyboard selection. The SATA driver 
should be loaded automatically later.
Note that you may lose DMA by doing this.

> with
> hw-detect/start_pcmcia=false, debian-installer/probe/usb=false and
> desperatly debian-installer/probe/pcmcia=false with no luck. Maybe
> ata_piix in d-i is diferent to Ubuntu?.

I think Ubuntu has a few kernel configuration options that IIRC are listed 
as experimental enabled that Debian does not.

Basically, SATA kernel drivers are not mature yet. Support is improving 
quite fast, but we are aware that that does not really help users _now_.
However, there is not very much we can do about it in the installer 
itself.

Thanks for your thourough report.

Cheers,
FJP

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