Bug#240932: (fwd) RE: ide troubles

["Will Lentz" <Will_Lentz@Trimble.com>]

I don't have time to try all this today, but I tried 2 things:
1) Using linux 2.6 "linux26" - same result as default Linux 2.4.

2) Using "linux debconf/priority=medium", I _only_ loaded the following
modules when detecting my CDROM (because now it asked me...):
  ide-detect 
  ide-disk
  ide-cd
  isofs
That works - problem solved!

I have to run now, but I'll try some more things you suggested tomorrow.

Thanks,
Will


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frans Pop [mailto:aragorn@tiscali.nl] 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 4:30 PM
> To: Will Lentz
> Cc: 240932@bugs.debian.org
> Subject: Re: (fwd) RE: ide troubles
> 
> On Tuesday 11 January 2005 20:19, you wrote:
> > I did see a progress bar that displays all directory names under
> > /pool/*/*.
> 
> Hmmm. The log does not really tell us anything new.
> 
> Here's a few more things to try. For both I advice you to boot the 
> installer with 'linux debconf/priority=medium'.
> 
> 1. Check if DMA is enabled for the CD drive and disable it.
> From vt2, check dmesg for something like:
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:01.1 to 64
>     ide0: BM-DMA at 0xc000-0xc007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
>     ide1: BM-DMA at 0xc008-0xc00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
> hda: QEMU HARDDISK, ATA DISK drive
> hdc: QEMU CD-ROM, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> 
> Also check:
> cat /proc/ide/hd?/settings for value of using_dma
> 
> If the CD-drive is showing dma after BIOS settings and proc is also 
> showing dma, try disabling it with 'echo -n "using_dma:0" >settings'.
> 
> 2. See what's really going on in cdrom-detect.
> From vt2, 'nano /var/lib/dpkg/info/cdrom-detect.postinst'; 
> uncomment the 
> 'set -x' command, switch back to vt1 and run cdrom-detect.
> 
> Check what's in the syslog.
> For the directory scan, you should see a lot of:
> + db_subst cdrom-detect/scanning_progress_step DIR /cdrom/pool/main/a 
> + echo SUBST cdrom-detect/scanning_progress_step DIR 
> /cdrom/pool/main/a
> (I removed the date and stuff)
> 
> After doing 'z', you should see this:
> + find /cdrom/pool/main/z/ 
> + db_progress STEP 1 
> + echo PROGRESS STEP 1 
> + local IFS= 
>  
> + local _LINE 
> + read -r _LINE 
> + RET=OK 
> + return 0 
> + db_progress STOP 
> + echo PROGRESS STOP 
> + local IFS= 
>  
> + local _LINE 
> + read -r _LINE 
> + RET=OK 
> + return 0 
> + relfile=/cdrom/dists/stable/Release 
> + [ -e /cdrom/dists/stable/Release ] 
> + sed -n s/^Suite: *//p /cdrom/dists/stable/Release 
> + suite=testing 
> + log Detected CD with 'testing' distribution 
> + logger -t cdrom-detect Detected CD with 'testing' distribution 
> + db_set mirror/suite testing 
> + echo SET mirror/suite testing 
> + local IFS= 
> 
> You could try adding commands in the script at the point 
> where it fails to 
> see if you, for instance can read other files.
> 
> BTW. Did you try the 2.6 kernel? Just boot the installer with linux26.
> 
>