Bug#737750: debian-installer: Netboot initrd does not download ata-modules or sata-modules udebs

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 12:17 -0500, Elizabeth Myers wrote:
> Package: debian-installer
> Version: wheezy
> Severity: normal
> Tags: d-i
> 
> Debian's initrd.gz for debian-installer does not download ata-modules or sata-modules udebs, rendering the initrd useless on systems with AHCI controllers - more specifically, it will boot, but detect no disks.
> 
> Many systems lack a legacy IDE mode and therefore this is a serious problem.
> 
> I can attach other logfiles later, but the jist of it is that it doesn't even attempt to fetch the udebs.

Presumably it has failed to detect the network controller, so it can't
download anything.

Please can you specify what network controller(s) this sytem has?  The
command 'lspci -vnn' should provide the model name and numeric ID for
all PCI devices; look for 'Network controller' or 'Ethernet controller'.

Ben.

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