> On May 6, 2019, at 11:17 PM, Frank Scheiner <[email protected]> wrote: > > I just tried the 2019-04-20 ISO on my DS25. Unfortunately the disc drive > cannot be detected by the installer so I'm stuck at this point.
As far as I know, a lot of Alpha-specific hardware needs firmware but I haven’t looked into creating images with firmware yet. > UPDATE: On second thought, [2] and [3] seem to be unrelated to what is > available in the initramfs of the installer. From what I saw, the > drivers from the sata-modules UDEB are actually included in the > initramfs, but the needed drivers from the pata-modules UDEB are not. > > Where is this configured? [4] includes the sata-modules UDEB as > optional, but no pata-modules UDEB. So is this maybe configured in [4]? > If yes, I can provide a patch on salsa.d.o to fix that issue, just need > a confirmation. Here: https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/tree/master/debian/installer/modules/alpha-generic Try to understand the include logic first before sending a PR. A lot of modules are actually included using the “common” directory. Adrian
