----- Forwarded message from Eric Shubes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- From: Eric Shubes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 15:14:15 -0700 To: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Bug#307834: Installation: Micron Transport floppy=nofifo problem Organization: Eric Shubert & Associates User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax)
Joey Hess wrote: >Eric Shubes wrote: > >>The error wasn't absolutely consistent. The long rw: value varied. >>Usually 24, but sometimes 13 or 20. The rs= value changed too, 2 and 15 >>respectively. >>The install media was fine. I checked, double checked, cleaned the drive, >>and even created media on the same computer which was failing. On >>occasion (3 times out of 20 or so) >> >>I also tried various other parameters: floppy=0,daring; =broken_dcl; >>=slow, and none helped. >> >>I don't know why floppy=nofifo fixed the problem with Woody (Woody had >>the same symptoms without it). It appears to me as though floppy=nofifo >>simply doesn't work. At least it doesn't do what it did with Woody. >> >>I've since done a dist-upgrade instead, so I'm not in need of this to >>work, but it would be nice to have it fixed for the next person who tries >>it. I'll be happy to do whatever testing that may be needed. > > >The issue is that kernel boot time parameters are not seen by modules >when they're loaded. The floppy driver is a module in sarge. You should >be able to work around the problem by booting with BOOT_DEBUG=3. This >will give you several shell prompts after the floppy boots. At the first >one, "before hardware detection", you can try to "modprobe floppy >floppy=nofifo". > >If that works for you, then we obviously need a better fix to let these >parameters be specified. > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Bingo - works like a charm. Where do we go from here? I followed through the install process a bit, and there was an error while running 'modprobe -v i82365' for my network adapter. I guess I should see if that's reported already or not, and if not file a report on that too. Yes? -- -Eric 'shubes' "There is no such thing as the People; it is a collectivist myth. There are only individual citizens with individual wills and individual purposes." -William E. Simon (1927-2000), Secretary of the Treasury (1974-1977) "A Time For Truth" (1978), pg. 237 ----- End forwarded message ----- -- see shy jo
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