Salut Andree, Your patch is working ok!
I've tested a complete restore without problem. Cheers Yann Le dimanche 26 février 2006 à 12:25 +1100, Andree Leidenfrost a écrit : > Salut Yann, > > Thanks a lot for reporting this issue and for mentioning the workaround > you found! > > I can confirm the problem and it's all my fault: When I made the change > in 1.06-2 to get DMA to work on VIA chipsets, I relied on the > ide-generic module to get loaded later, which is wrong as the CD can't > be accessed because of the missing ide driver - catch 22. Silly me! > > mindi unfortunately uses a brute force approach to load modules and to > satisfy inter-module dependencies. It does not allow for loading modules > in a particular order. This, however, is exactly what is required to get > DMA working on VIA chipsets: module via82cxxx needs to get loaded before > ide-generic does. > > The attached patch init_#354145.diff makes it so that ide-core and > via82cxxx get loaded before the rest of the essential modules. It works > for me and I believe it should not impact things on non-VIA chipset > systems. (mindi_#354145.diff simply puts ide-generic back into > IDE_MODS.) > > It would be great if you could apply the two patches, try again and let > me know the outcome. This would confirm that it does work on non-VIA > systems as well - something I can't test myself. (The mindi patch may > not be required as you've already added ide-generic back in.) > > Thanks a lot & best regards, > Andree > > On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 19:00 +0100, Yann Aubert wrote: > > Package: mindi > > Version: 1.06-3 > > Severity: grave > > Justification: renders package unusable > > > > When booting from a cdrom burned with mondorescue.iso, the kernel and > > initrd are loaded without problems. But after that, when looking after > > the other files on the cdrom, the system ask for the floppies. > > I don't have a patch but can give a hint. For my setup, I had to put > > ide-generic back in mindi (IDE_MODS) in order to make the cdrom works > > correctly. > > > > > > -- System Information: > > Debian Release: 3.1 > > Architecture: i386 (i686) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.14-2-686-smp > > Locale: LANG=fr_FR, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR (charmap=ISO-8859-1) > > > > Versions of packages mindi depends on: > > ii binutils 2.15-6 The GNU assembler, linker and > > bina > > ii bzip2 1.0.2-7 high-quality block-sorting > > file co > > ii dosfstools 2.11-2 Utilities to create and check > > MS-D > > ii file 4.12-1 Determines file type using > > "magic" > > ii gawk 1:3.1.4-2 GNU awk, a pattern scanning > > and pr > > ii mindi-busybox 1.00-6 Collection of shell utilities > > in a > > ii mkisofs 4:2.01+01a01-2 Creates ISO-9660 CD-ROM > > filesystem > > ii module-init-tools 3.2-pre1-2 tools for managing Linux > > kernel mo > > ii ms-sys 1.1.3-1 Write a Microsoft compatible > > boot > > ii nano 1.2.4-5 free Pico clone with some new > > feat > > ii parted 1.6.21-1 The GNU Parted disk partition > > resi > > ii syslinux 2.11-0.1 Bootloader for Linux/i386 > > using MS > > > > -- no debconf information > >
