Bug#406008: Installation Report - etch RC1 on Fujitsu-Siemens MS-6309
On (12/01/07 18:21), Frans Pop wrote:
> On Sunday 07 January 2007 22:13, Clive Menzies wrote:
> > Comments/Problems:
> > Apart from having to disable autodetect of the Cdrom to get the media
> > to boot,
>
> Hmm. Can you elaborate on that a bit? This could possibly help other as
> well.
> Was this a BIOS setting you had to disable? What is the exact name of that
> setting and what does it do? Any idea why it interferes with booting the
> installer?
This is definitely specific to the machine; it has a DVDrom and a CDRW.
It wouldn't boot from the DVDrom any of the following:
Knoppix 4.0.2 or 5.1
Ubuntu 5.10
Beatrix IX_2005
Debian-31.r0a
and others
So I disabled 'autodetect' in the BIOS for the DVDrom and booted off the
CDRW. The box is now a functioning file and IMAP server and I'd rather
avoid rebooting it to give you the exact BIOS details but if you still
need them, let me know. The DVDrom seems to be detected at boot with
the installed OS; I re-enabled autodetect afterwards; I'm not sure it
made any difference.
> > pciutils wasn't installed by default.
>
> It is installed I think if you select the Desktop task. It is not part of
> the base system, nor priority standard, so why should D-I decide on its
> own to install it?
It shouldn't except that when I was completing the installation report I
needed it to give the output of lspci :)
Regards
Clive
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