* Alessandro Polverini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-02-29 10:52]: > 1) I have a davicom network card, the system used the "tulip" driver > for it, but it didn't work since the right driver is "dmfe". > This is valid during the install phase as well as on the newly > installed system, i.e.: discover use the wrong driver for the net card.
Can you try new images from http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/ and report whether they load the right module. Can you also boot with linux26 and check if the right module is loaded there. > 2) During the install, the installer nicely prompted me to choose the > network card between eth0 and eth1, but I had no clue to which one was > what. It would be _very_ helpful if it was possible to have some more A description is displayed now. > 3) In a similar way, when grub asks on which device to install, I'm > totally blind on knowing if hd0 is the ide this and hd1 the raid one > or viceversa. Having some more informations like the size of the disk, You can use standard device names (/dev/sda...) now. > 5) Discover correctly loads the piix module for the ide controller, but > loads it _after_ ide-detect and this is wrong, for two reasons: > - on kernels 2.4.x that works but the disk are used without DMA and > so are so slow to be almost unusable. See below with problems with > related problems with hdparm > - on kernels 2.6.x that does not work b/c the ide-detect module keeps > the irq of the controller and the piix driver can't even start Can you check if this is still being done? > 6) hdparm is unable to set disk parameters during the boot because the > IDE drivers are loaded by discover _after_ hdparm starts, so hdparm > finds no ide drives on the systems and aborts Hmm, that's quiet stupid. I suppose this is still there... can you check and confirm? > 7) the installation correctly uses the "megaraid2" driver for my raid > controller but the driver "megaraid" is not used on the initrd image, > so, after the reboot, the old and limited driver is used on the system > instead. So there's a megaraid and a megaraid2 driver, and the old megaraid driver is used for the initrd? Is this still true? -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
