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Re: kernel bug and reportbug bug



I have one instance of debian working on an ide drive and slackware 
installed on the serial ATA drive instance.  I don't know how connections 
were done on this machine since I didn't install the serial ATA drive but 
can find out. On Sun, 26 Feb 2012, Camale?n wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:39:36 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> 
> > I had a successful install of slackware 13.0 on my nVidia CK804 Serial
> > ATA drive.  Before doing so, I had a failed install of debian on that
> > drive with debian causing much banging of the drive before throwing
> > drive detection failed message and dropping me into media change dialog.
> 
> You mean Debian installer was not able to detect your hard disk?
> 
> > Of course, the cd door wouldn't open so doing alt-f2 allowed me to
> > eject but dropping back to alt-f1 I'm back to the media change dialog
> > where the same disk as is already in the cd drive is being requested.  I
> > can't break out to main menu so can't adjust down to low priority
> > messages or turn on debugging logs either.  
> 
> Installer dmesg logs can be accessed at one tty (I never remember where 
> exactly, tty4 or tty6), maybe you can try that to see what's going on.
> 
> Anyway, I would start over the installalation process.
> 
> > Finally I can't get my local version of reportbug to connect to the
> > server either.  
> 
> Mmm, does that mean you already were able to install Debian?
> 
> As per reportbug, you can manually configure it to customize your e-mail 
> server settings.
> 
> > I was told I ought to file a bug against the debian
> > kernel since the drivers my disk needs are in the kernel but for some
> > reason don't work.  This is the lspci -v output from slackware 13.0 too.
> > 00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev a2)
> > Kernel driver in use: AMD_IDE
> > 00:07.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller
> > (rev a3) 00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA
> > Controller (rev a3)
> 
> (...)
> 
> Mmm... it seems there are two set of controllers, the first one with pure 
> IDE and the latter with some kind of SATA-IDE emulation.
> 
> I guess you have connected the hard disk to the IDE port, right? Or is 
> that the optical DVD/CD? OTOH, Slackware seems to load "AMD_IDE" kernel 
> module for the IDE port, but I'm not sure if Debian use the same 
> module :-?
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> 

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