On Tue, 2014-02-25 at 13:43 -0600, Elizabeth Myers wrote: > On 23/02/14 05:58, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Control: tag -1 unreproducible > > > > On Sat, 2014-02-22 at 21:43 -0600, Elizabeth Myers wrote: > >> 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. > > Funny, it works for everyone else. > > > > Ben. > > > 1) If it's so funny, then how come I'm not laughing? Please don't be a snob. Sorry, I meant funny-strange not funny-ha-ha. > 2) http://dmytro.github.io/2012/06/21/debian_cobbler.html - the bug has > been there. It's only in the netboot installer. It doesn't include the > correct udebs, period, nor does it download them. Even grep -r of the > entire initrd reveals it doesn't know where to get them. I just tested it in KVM/QEMU. It does download ata-modules. Are you using the current (7.4) netboot images? If I remember rightly, old netboot images may stop working after a point release if you don't keep the corresponding udebs on a local mirror. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Always try to do things in chronological order; it's less confusing that way.
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