deb install report

2004-01-04 Thread Sándor Bárány
Debian-installer-version: http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/installer-i386/20040102/images/hd-media-image.img.gz sarge-i386-netinst-iso from a mirror of the November 11th version uname -a: n/a Date: 4 Jan 2004 Method: I mounted the 811 MB large thinkpad IBM Deskstar into a

Re: deb install report

2004-01-04 Thread James J. Ramsey
--- Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sándor Bárány wrote: After the hardware detection, the install loads the frame buffer module (even there was a vga=normal parameter specified on the kernel line), which fails (the hardware is so old, there is no frame buffer support). This causes a

Re: deb install report

2004-01-04 Thread Joey Hess
James J. Ramsey wrote: It may be old, but I think that even the recent builds seem to have a bug that affected B?r?ny. The installer seems to filter out some of the parameters that are passed at the boot prompt, even though they are standard-issue, documented kernel parameters. In B?r?ny's

Re: deb install report

2004-01-04 Thread James J. Ramsey
--- Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James J. Ramsey wrote: The installer seems to filter out some of the parameters that are passed at the boot prompt, even though they are standard-issue, documented kernel parameters. In B?r?ny's case, the ignored parameter was vga=normal. In

Re: deb install report

2004-01-04 Thread Joey Hess
James J. Ramsey wrote: ide=nodma is not a module parameter per se, AFAICT. Judging from the release notes of Red Hat 8.0 http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/release-notes/x86/, the parameter passed to the ide-cd module to disable DMA (which is disabled by default in RH