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Bug#315580: marked as done (installation-reports: Dell Precision 370 unusable)

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regarding installation-reports: Dell Precision 370 unusable
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Package: installation-reports

Debian-installer-version: 16/06/05 (I think)
Date: 23/06/05 17:00:00 BST
Method: CDROM (attempted netboot)

Machine: Dell Precision 370
Processor: Intel P4
Memory: 512MB, I think.

The initial boot works fine. There are then two different problems:
booting 2.4, the SCSI controller can't be detected: modprobe'ing the aic79xx module reports: aic79xx: no such device. Since the hard disk is a SCSI disk, this is a show-stopper. Maybe the vendor has changed the PCI id, or some such irritating thing.
So, I try boot linux26. This can't find the ide CDROM the sytem booted off. Looking through logs, it seems that libata starts up, and then hogs the interrupt 0x1f0-0x1f7 so that the ide probing fails: 

"ide0: I/O resource 0x1f0-0x1f7 not free
 ide0: ports already in use, skipping probe"
/proc/ioports shows its libata using that I/O resource. I can't find a way to stop the isntaller using libata. 

I then tried expert26 mode
Turning off the ata_piix module in the "Detect and Mount CD-ROM" step seems to be a solution. Now the installer will apparantly load the aic79xx module, but doesn't detect any of the attached disks.
/proc/scsi/scsi doesn't list any attached devices. I can't get add-single-device to work any magic either, even having modprobed in sd_mod and sg
So, I must admit defeat. Any hints on how I can get something working on this machine gratefully accepted :/ 

Matthew

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Matthew Vernon MA VetMB LGSM MRCVS
Farm Animal Epidemiology and Informatics Unit
Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge
http://www.cus.cam.ac.uk/~mcv21/

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We are closing this installation report for one of the following
reasons:
- it was reported with a pre-lenny version of Debian
  Installer.
- indications in the installation report give the feeling that
  the reported problem waslying in another software, unrelated to
  D-I, which we can't easily identify.
- indications in the installation report suggest that it may have been
  fixed in a more recent version of a D-I component
- it was successful and we forgot closing it..:-)
- it has no information we consider useful


The D-I team is currently in the process of cleaning out the old spool
of installation reports that haven't bene processed yet. 

In case you think that the problem you reported has chances to be
still present, please reiterate your installation test with
a more recent image of D-I, if you're in position of doing this.

You'll find daily builds at
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer. We recommend you choose
the netboot image, in the "daily builds section", then choose to
install "squeeze" when prompted.

If some problems are found, please report them with a new bug sent
against installation-reports.

Many thanks for your understanding and your help improving Debian,
past and present.

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