Bug#603694: debian-installer: Toshiba Portege IDE controller unsupported by libata in 2.6.32

[Tim Small <tim@buttersideup.com>]

Package: debian-installer
Version: 20101020
Severity: normal
Tags: squeeze

Hi,

I installed the Beta1 squeeze netinst ISO on an old Toshiba Portege 3020CT
notebook.  The installer ran fine to completion, then failed to find the
root filesystem on first boot.

The Installer had told grub to pass "all_generic_ide" to the kernel, but
the resulting libata driver fails to find the IDE controller on this
machine.

Forcing the loading of ide_generic gets the controller detected (albeit
with very low throughput).

There may be some Toshiba IDE controller support from 2.6.33 in libata.

Dunno if this is really an installer or a kernel bug....

Tim.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-openvz-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

-- no debconf information