Hi!
Please keep the bug report CC'ed.
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 10:55:32PM +0100, Jon Thackray wrote:
> And yet further efforts. I rebooted using an Ubuntu CD, and checked what
> modules were installed. It would appear that what is needed at least for
> the PATA system on the 955 board (D955XBKLKR) is pata_marvell.
> Unfortunately, this doesn't see the light of day until 2.6.25 kernels,
> which is a shame given that it's needed for boards several years old now.
> With this, and some other modules from 2.6.25 which I've been unable to
> identify, I can see both PATA IDE discs and the CDROM on the same IDE
> channel (although /dev/cdrom now points to /dev/scd0). I think this is
> about as far as I want to go with this investigation, so unless someone is
> prepared to produce a CDROM boot image (or a floppy boot image) that
> contains the required modules, I shall be forced to use Ubuntu instead.
Most SATA drivers can be set (using the BIOS) to use a compatible mode
which would be supported, AFAIK, by the ide-generic driver which exists
in d-i beta2.
The current daily builds of the debian-installer uses the 2.6.25 kernel
and ships the pata_marvell driver in the pata-modules udeb. The
pata-modules is priority "standard" and is included on the CD-ROM but
not included in the cdrom initial ramdisk. Thus making it unavailable
until the content of the CD can be read (with a driver that would
support it, for example).
The ide-pci-generic module that is shipped in 2.6.25 has a command-line
option "all_generic_ide" that will make it claim all unknown PCI IDE
storage controller, which might fit your Marvell's.
Could you please try to start a daily build of the debian-installer,
specifiying on the boot command-line (use TAB to enter additional
paramaters), the following:
all_generic_ide=1
I am leaving the rest of your email as it contains information that
have not been read by other followers of the debian-boot mailling-list.
> To summarise, the problems are:-
>
> Lenny beta2 boot CDROM does not contain suitable CDROM drivers for this
> board
> Lenny beta2 boot CDROM does not contain suitable ethernet drivers for this
> board
> Lenny beta2 boot CDROM does not contain suitable ethernet drivers for an
> SMC network card
> Lenny beta2 boot CDROM does not contain suitable floppy drivers for this
> board
> because of this, it is impossible to save (and hence to forward) the
> installation failure debug logs
>
> The same problems apply to the latest testing CDROM install
>
> The floppy install does contain the missing ethernet drivers, both for the
> board and the SMC card
> The floppy install does contain the missing floppy drivers
> The floppy install does not contain the missing CDROM drivers
>
> There is therefore the possibility of adding the missing CDROM drivers to
> the driver set for the floppy install
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jon Thackray" <jgt@pobox.com>
> To: "Jérémy Bobbio" <lunar@debian.org>
> Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2008 7:14 PM
> Subject: Re: Bug#492051: Lenny Beta 2 installer failure
>
>
> >Further efforts.
> >
> >I have now verified that the floppy drive is not faulty. The machine can
> >boot from it. I have since acquired the Debian floppy installation system
> >from http://linux.simple.be/debian/floppy and have been able to use it to
> >detect all the network cards in the system (one SMC card which the testing
> >latest and the lenny2 beta could not detect, and the on board Intel chip).
> >The cd-drivers from this site were still insufficient to detect the CDROM
> >drive however.
> >
> >So, one thing you will now be able to check is what network drivers are
> >available from the floppy installer that are missing from the testing
> >latest and lenny2 beta.
> >
> >One a system has been installed, I'll let you know what CDROM driver it
> >has chosen, assuming it does choose one.
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Jon Thackray" <jgt@pobox.com>
> >To: "Jérémy Bobbio" <lunar@debian.org>
> >Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 12:55 PM
> >Subject: Re: Bug#492051: Lenny Beta 2 installer failure
> >
> >
> >>I have now also tried a formatted floppy with no fie system (using using
> >>fdformat) and a formatted floppy with an ext2 file system. All fail. I
> >>can't save the data to /mnt, but have no way to get it out of the machine
> >>from there. I've tried mounting other devices within the machine which I
> >>know to contain valid linux partitions, but mount always replies
> >>"mounting /dev/scd1 on /mnt failed: no such device" from a command such
> >>as mount -t ext3 /dev/scd1 /mnt
> >>
> >>Since there seem to be around 100k bytes of logs it's not feasible simply
> >>to transcribe them by hand. Is there any other way I can get them out of
> >>the machine?
> >>
> >>----- Original Message -----
> >>From: "Jon Thackray" <jgt@pobox.com>
> >>To: "Jérémy Bobbio" <lunar@debian.org>
> >>Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 9:30 AM
> >>Subject: Re: Bug#492051: Lenny Beta 2 installer failure
> >>
> >>
> >>>Hmm, I formatted a floppy (FAT) and tried to save the debug logs to it.
> >>>That also failed. So, is there some other format you want the floppy to
> >>>be, or is there some other way I can get at the logs. There are no
> >>>mounte file systems (haven't got that far yet), and the installer won't
> >>>drive the ethernet so web save isn't an option. Where do I go from here?
> >>>
> >>>----- Original Message -----
> >>>From: "Jérémy Bobbio" <lunar@debian.org>
> >>>To: "Jon Thackray" <jgt@pobox.com>; <492051@bugs.debian.org>
> >>>Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 5:51 PM
> >>>Subject: Re: Bug#492051: Lenny Beta 2 installer failure
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
Cheers,
--
Jérémy Bobbio .''`.
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