Bug#515826: your mail
reassign 515826 linux-2.6
thanks
Hi Istvan,
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 09:22:16PM +0100, Istvan Gyenes wrote:
> Boot method: CD
> Image version: debian-500-alpha-netinst.iso
> Date: 2009.02.17 17:53 CET
> Machine: Digital Alpha AXP 150 (DEC 2000 model 300 - Jensen)
> Processor: DIgital Alpha EV4 - 150 Mhz
> Memory: 128 MB
> Partitions: N/A
> Comments/Problems:
> Trying to boot the Debian 5.0 netboot install image fails to detect CD
> and/or network card (DE422). It boots up to the install screen just fine,
> but without CD/network card support unable to install base system. (scsi
> controller- aha1742 (eisa), network card - de422 (eisa)
Do you know what kernel drivers are supposed to be used for these devices?
possibly aha1740 for the SCSI card, but I don't have a guess as to which
driver should be used for the network card.
Is there any attempt made to load these drivers, or are they missing from
the installer? (The aha1740 driver is present in the scsi-modules udeb, so
should be available / automatically loaded.)
> As far as I can recall from my memory Jensen needed a special kernel
> (CONFIG_ALPHA_JENSEN=y).
That would be a bug in the kernel's Jensen support, then. We haven't used
per-subarch kernel images for alpha in Debian for a long time (not since
they were required for MILO), and the generic kernel is expected to work on
all alphas without the need for per-subarch hacks.
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