Re: Bug#306476: quick question about Bug#306476
Hi Jim and Frans,
Thanks very much for the follow-up and suggestions. For the sake of
creating a useful record I'll let you know what happened here.
I ended up getting this working using the standard sarge minimal-cd net
installer, which was the thing that failed in the first place. To get it
working, after the "detect and mount cdrom" phase failed, I went into a
shell and did "modprobe esp". This then starts the in-built scsi card
and detects the cdrom and hard disk. I then exited the shell, tried the
"detect cdrom" step again, and the rest of the install proceeded
normally. (I also needed to know that the network controller was a Happy
Meal card).
To get to this point, I had also tried the latest etch cd installer
which uses a 2.6 kernel. This installer failed at other points (I had to
modprobe esp and it couldn't mount the disk after partitioning, and
something else too...) but what was useful was that it told me that the
module for the scsi controller was called "esp". Since this is an sbus
system, not pci, there doesn't appear to be an equivalent of "lspci"
which would have solved my problem immediately. (If there is such a
thing, please let me know.)
So all's well that ends well. If you think that the failure to load the
correct scsi driver modules during the "detect cdrom" phase is a bug,
then I'll be happy to submit one.
Cheers,
Randall.
P.S I did all this using the serial terminal on the back of the box
since it has no graphics card. That works fine when connected to a
terminal with minicom (in this case an Ultra10 running linux), but you
must turn off all flow control.
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