Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal
[This is a follow-up bugreport for #571035, which will been
closed due to his longstanding and complex history]
Used installation media:
netinst cd: 'installer build 20110407-03:53'
with kernel 2.6.37-2-486
Hi folks,
I have an older Toshiba laptop 320CDS using an uncommon
non-pci ide-controller, which is supported by ide_generic /
ide-gd-mod kernel module, but not by any of the libata modules.
Installation works fine, but the newly installed system does not
start, root filesystem cannot be found, since the harddisk is not
available. Manually fixing the initrd to include ide_generic
solves this problem.
ide_generic is an old driver and there were statements, that it
should be removed in the future. But since the libata modules lack
support for some controller(s) ide_generic had, there's probably
a reason to keep ide_generic.
I bought additional RAM for this machine to be able to provide
installation logs (this was a lowmem machine before) and here are
the logs.
Maybe someone can find the reason, why ide_generic doesn't make it
in the initrd.
Don't hesitate to ask for any additional info.
Thanks
Holger
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