Bug#345999: installation-report: Same problem on a Dell Latitude D610

[Pelayo Gonzalez <pelayog@telecable.es>]

Mensaje citado por Pelayo Gonzalez <pelayog@telecable.es>:

> Mensaje citado por Frans Pop <aragorn@tiscali.nl>:
> 
> > On Sunday 29 January 2006 11:08, Pelayo Gonzalez wrote:
> > > I think that we need to add the line 'options libata atapi_enabled=1'
> > > to /etc/modprobe.conf in the initrd image of the debian-installer.
> > 
> > Could you try to do this manually first to check that it works?
> > When you get the first screen of the installer (language question), switch
> 
> > to VT2 (using atl-F2) and use 'nano /etc/modprobe.conf' to add the line.
> > 
> > One problem with this solution is that it only works for the installation 
> > itself. The user would still have a non-working CD drive after the reboot 
> > into the installed system.
> > 
> 
> It's dificult to do with debian installer as libata is loaded BEFORE any
> user
> interaction, and no rmmod is present to remove and reload the modules. 
> 

Well I've managed to boot with netinst daily-build (2006-01-16), and CDROM was
detected. This is a micro-HowTo:

1 - boot:  

expert BOOT_DEBUG=3

2 - In the shell:

nano /etc/modprobe.conf

add the line:

options libata atapi_enabled=1

save & quit

exit from the shell

3 - Continue the installation. After choosing your language and keyboard you
can go to the shell (Alt+F2) and verify that you CDROM is there:

cat /proc/scsi/scsi

4 - After installs completes don't forget to configure your mkinitrd tool in
order to pass 'atapi_enabled=1' to libata, and dpkg-reconfigure
linux-image-2.6.15-1-686.

Note: If for mkinitramfs you should add 'libata atapi_enabled=1' to
/etc/mkinitramfs/modules

FixMe: How to configure yaird?.


Saludos

Pelayo