Quoting Christian Perrier (bubulle@debian.org): > The errata page hasn't changed since December, when I cooked it and > asked for a review. I commented the Sparc issues (Jurij Smakov confirmed both of them being fixed) and the Parvell controller issue. Please review that new version.
#use wml::debian::template title="Debian-Installer errata" #use wml::debian::recent_list <h1 id="lenny-rc1">Errata for lenny release RC2</h1> <p> This is a list of known problems in the lenny RC2 release of Debian Installer. If you do not see your problem listed here, please send us an <a href="report-template">installation report</a> describing the problem. </p> <dl class="gloss"> <dt>Auto-assembly of RAID arrays in rescue mode can corrupt data</dt> <dd> Rescue mode should be used with great care when software RAID arrays were in use on the system to rescue. The rescue mode scripts automatically assemble arrays, which could lead to data corruption in the presence of invalid or obsolete RAID superblocks. </dd> <!-- <dt>Marvell disk controllers not fully supported</dt> <dd> Due to a pata_marwell module not begin properly autoloaded on i386 and amd64 media, peripherals driven by Marvell disk controllers are not detected. If IDE is used in legacy mode with these controllers, switch to console 2 when the installer boots (Alt+F2) and run 'modprobe -r ahci; modprobe pata_marvel; modprobe ahci' before continuing. </dd> --> <dt>Corrupted display of messages in Dzongkha installs</dt> <dd> When the password chosen for root and its confirmations do not match, the display of screens that follow is garbled, during installs in Dzongkha language (broken display of italic font). </dd> <dt>Disk devices may change on reboot</dt> <dd> On systems with multiple disk controllers, the kernel/udev may assign a different device node on reboot of the system than was used during installation due to difference in load order of drivers.<br /> This can lead to failure to boot the system. In most cases this can be corrected by changing the bootloader configuration and /etc/fstab, possibly using the rescue mode of the installer.<br /> Note however that this problem may occur again on subsequent boots. </dd> <dt>Reboot problems when installing from a USB stick</dt> <dd> The former problem may also happen when installing from a USB stick. Temporarily keeping the USB stick in place will allow you to boot the installed system and correct the bootloader configuration file. See <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/506263">#506263</a> for details about such workaround. </dd> <dt>Buggy routers may cause network problems</dt> <dd> If you experience network problems during the installation, this may be caused by a router somewhere between you and the Debian mirror that doesn't correctly handle window scaling. See <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/401435">#401435</a> and this <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/6723">kerneltrap article</a> for details.<br /> You can work around this issue by disabling TCP window scaling. Activate a shell and enter the following command:<br /> <tt>echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling</tt><br /> For the installed system you should probably not completely disable TCP window scaling. The following command will set ranges for reading and writing that should work with almost any router:<br /> <tt>echo 4096 65536 65536 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_rmem</tt><br /> <tt>echo 4096 65536 65536 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_wmem</tt> </dd> <!-- leaving this in for possible future use... <dt>i386: more than 32 mb of memory is needed to install</dt> <dd> The minimum amount of memory needed to successfully install on i386 is 48 mb, instead of the previous 32 mb. We hope to reduce the requirements back to 32 mb later. Memory requirements may have also changed for other architectures. </dd> --> <dt>i386: few issues</dt> <dd> The i386 port has some known issues in this release: <ul> <li>Due to an increase in the size of the 2.6.24 kernel, we are unable to provide installation images for installs from floppy disk. We expect to be able to support floppy installs again when the installer switches to the next kernel version.</li> <li>We had at least one report about the installer crashing at the network hardware detection step on some Dell Inspiron laptops. See <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/509238">bug #509238</a> for details. A workaround seems to be booting the installer with the "vga=771" parameter.</li> </ul> </dd> <dt>PowerPC: various issues</dt> <dd> The PowerPC port has several issues in this release: <ul> <li>installation from floppy on OldWorld PowerMac is broken because no device node is created for the swim3 module and as miboot is not included</li> <li>the snd-powermac module is no longer loaded by default as it will lock up some systems; you will need to add it to <tt>/etc/modules</tt> manually</li> </ul> </dd> <!-- <dt>Sparc: various issues</dt> <dt>Sparc SCSI controllers support</dt> <dd> The Sparc port has several issues in this release: <ul> <li>Broken serial console support. In some situations (see <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/504721">bug #504721</a> for details), the serial console used may not be properly re-opened and therefore become non responding. Passing 'console=ttyS0' (or whichever device the console is attached to) may we used as a workaround.</li> <li> fails to recognize ESP/FAS SCSI controller: installer images are missing the <tt>sun_esp</tt> kernel module which is needed to support CD and disc drives connected to an ESP or FAS controller. </li> </ul> </dd> --> <dt>s390: unsupported features</dt> <dd> <ul> <li>support for the DASD DIAG discipline is currently not available</li> <li>support for LCS network interfaces is no longer available</li> </ul> </dd> </dl>
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