I'm just forwarding this to the bugreport, in order to not lose this info. Bye Christian
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Bug#328565: testing installer report Resent-Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 04:12:06 -0500 (CDT) Resent-From: debian-boot@lists.debian.org Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 10:54:54 +0200 From: Pielmeier, Stefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: <debian-boot@lists.debian.org> Meanwhile I managed the problem(s): - using the newer installer from e.g. 20050926 But still I had the problem that the newly installed system didn't boot correctly, because - I have a fix installed USB Card reader that is detected Successfully by usb-storage driver - sata-sil was not detected (or not checked?) during initial Default driver loading in installer - sata-sil was loaded just during harddrive detection in installer AFTER usb-storage driver was already installed as a default driver => my harddrive was detected as drive /dev/sde during install process - all setup was done for /dev/sde - but when booting, the sata-sil driver is (of course) loaded BEFORE The usb-storage driver => harddrive is detected as /dev/sda and the Root filesystem cannot be mounted SOLUTION: - use expert installation mode - do all default actions except: always DESELECT usb-storage driver so the harddisk is Detected as /dev/sda and the system boots fine after ;-=) SUGGESTION: - if possible, unload previous loaded drivers in installer if no harddisk was detected and the driver is selected by hand to avoid having harddisk as 'wrong' device in /dev/ Anyway, Debian is great! Cheers, Stefan. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
