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. -- Ben Hutchings All the simple programs have been written, and all the good names taken.
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