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



On 05/02/14 11:45, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 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.
>
No. That is not the problem. It has network. There is simply no
ata-modules or sata-modules references anywhere in the initrd. It never
downloads them because it doesn't know to get them.


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