Subject: installation-reports: Installer can't locate CD-ROM drive (sparc)
Package: installation-reports
Severity: important
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-- 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.
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-- 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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