Bug#474737: Still not working: Etch netboot installer does not detect ide harddisk

[markus.mbox@gmx.de]

> This really is total nonsense.
> It's in /lib/modules/<kvers>/kernel/drivers/ide/pci/ and is present for 
> both the Etch and Lenny installer.

Sorry, no :-(

More precisely:  Within  debian-LennyBeta2-i386-netinst.iso  there is a  initrd.gz  (size 4294684) containing  lib/modules/2.6.24-1-486/kernel/drivers/ide/pci/piix.ko. Ok, looks good.

But with this initrd the installer tries is to access a CD/DVD drive and fails without it. Don't know why this is called a "netinst" iso. One would expect netinst uses a network connection.

There also is a kernel / initrd.gz (size 5245043) pair in debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/debian-installer/i386. 

If you take this initrd.gz the installer initiates dhcp and network, as expected. But this initrd has no ide modules. There is only a ...drivers/ide/legacy directory. I you have a scsi disk there is no problem, but ide disks are not found. 


Markus

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