Re: SunFire V120 and sym53c8xx
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 02:28:42PM +0000, Richard Mortimer wrote:
>
>
> On 19/02/2011 23:20, Jurij Smakov wrote:
> >On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:06:04PM +0000, Jurij Smakov wrote:
> >>On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:49:39AM +0000, Richard Mortimer wrote:
> >>>[Cc'd to 611314@bugs.debian.org]
> >>>
> ...
> >>>I tested with your netboot image and it exhibits the same behaviour
> >>>as the official installer. The sym53c8xx driver does get loaded
> >>>automatically. I'm pretty sure that this is a timing issue. I
> >>>confirmed that all of the /dev/sd* files were present along with
> >>>/dev/disk/* entries.
> >>
> >>Ok, I think the magic happens in the disk_found() function in
> >>disk-detect.sh [0]. It looks like it will retry up to 3 times to see
> >>whether devices have showed up (with list-devices disk), sleeping 2
> >>seconds between attempts... If it takes up to 7 seconds for driver to
> >>initialize itself, we might be cutting it just a bit too short.
> >>Unfortunately, I don't see how we can test it easily, as neither
> >>netboot image nor miniiso contain the udebs, they are downloaded off
> >>the network.
> >
> >Hm, if expert install mode offers an opportunity to drop to shell
> >after udebs are downloaded, then we can probably replace the udeb
> >containing disk-detect.sh with a modified one. Can you check whether
> >it's possible?
>
> Yeah I can use "Go Back" at Set up users and passwords to get to the
> installer main menu and then drop to a shell.
>
> I can likely modify any scripts in place if you give me pointers to
> what you would like to change/test.
>
> To get things started I tried changing the number of retries from 3
> to 8 with
>
> sed -i 's/1 2 3/1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8/' /bin/disk-detect
Thanks, that's the confirmation I was looking for. We are going to
push a patch for this to 6.0.1 as it is fairly non-controversial.
> This detected the disks just fine.
>
> Regards
>
> Richard
--
Jurij Smakov jurij@wooyd.org
Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC
Reply to: