Subject: installation-reports: Installer can't locate CD-ROM drive (sparc) Package: installation-reports Severity: important *** Please type your report below this line *** -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/sparc/iso-cd/ 2008-06-11 Date: 2008-06-11 Machine: Sun Enterprise 3500 Partitions: none yet Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot: [O] Detect network card: [O] Configure network: [ ] Detect CD: [E] Load installer modules: [ ] Detect hard drives: [ ] Partition hard drives: [ ] Install base system: [ ] Clock/timezone setup: [ ] User/password setup: [ ] Install tasks: [ ] Install boot loader: [ ] Overall install: [ ] Comments/Problems: The installer boots fine, and allows me to set keyboard, country locale, but cannot detect the CD-ROM (/sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/sd@6,0:f) drive to continue the installation. When the menu first appeared, I started a shell and changed the sbus.list file as per: <cjwatson> boot d-i in expert mode, and before doing anything else, execute a shell <cjwatson> 'nano /usr/share/hw-detect/sbus.list' <cjwatson> change all the instances of esp to esp_scsi <cjwatson> i.e. esp:ESP SCSI:esp_scsi:initrd <cjwatson> -esp:ESP SCSI:esp:initrd <cjwatson> -SUNW,esp:ESP SCSI:esp:initrd <cjwatson> -SUNW,fas:FAS-336 ESP SCSI:esp:initrd <cjwatson> +esp:ESP SCSI:esp_scsi:initrd <cjwatson> +SUNW,esp:ESP SCSI:esp_scsi:initrd <cjwatson> +SUNW,fas:FAS-336 ESP SCSI:esp_scsi:initrd POST/OBP outputs, and syslog are attached. -- -- System Information: Architecture: sparc64 Kernel: 2.6.24-1-sparc64 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=es_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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