Hi Adrian,

I wonder if the line in the patch of bug #920353 [1] :

pata-modules-${kernel:Version}

would still be helpful. (I haven't tested since I
submitted the bug report)

I hope it will help !

Regards,
JH Chatenet

[1] : https://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2019/01/msg00020.html

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Hello JH Chatenet!

On 5/8/19 10:19 PM, jhcha54008@free.fr wrote:

I wonder if the line in the patch of bug #920353 [1] :

pata-modules-${kernel:Version}

would still be helpful. (I haven't tested since I
submitted the bug report)

I missed that part back then because you put two different topics
into one bug report. I only addressed the issue with the release
name but not the missing pata-modules entry. I will have a look if
it's indeed missing and add the drivers.

In the future, please open up a bug report for every individual issue,
or, even better, join the #debian-ports channel on OFTC as it's not
always necessary to open a bug report for every change you are requesting.

I have commit access to debian-cd, debian-installer and related parts,
so I can just push the changes myself.

Adrian

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Hi all,

On 5/8/19 22:24, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:

Hello JH Chatenet!

On 5/8/19 10:19 PM, jhcha54008@free.fr wrote:

I wonder if the line in the patch of bug #920353 [1] :

pata-modules-${kernel:Version}

would still be helpful. (I haven't tested since I
submitted the bug report)

I missed that part back then because you put two different topics
into one bug report. I only addressed the issue with the release
name but not the missing pata-modules entry. I will have a look if
it's indeed missing and add the drivers.

The pata-modules are indeed missing in the initramfs for the installer
CDROM and the cause of my installation problems on my DS25 (see [1] and follow-ups). I haven't yet tested on my DS20E and ES45, but assume they
are also affected, if their disc drives are attached to a PATA port.

[1]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2019/05/msg00000.html

@JH:
I must have overlooked that part like Adrian or maybe forgot it, because
I remember your message to the debian-alpha list back in January. IIRC
testing at that time was not possible on real hardware because of a bug
in the kernel that only showed in non-MP kernels - and unfortunately the installer kernel for alpha is non-MP. Thankfully that's fixed now.

Cheers,
Frank

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Hi again,

On 5/8/19 23:16, Frank Scheiner wrote:

Hi all,

On 5/8/19 22:24, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:

Hello  JH Chatenet!

On 5/8/19 10:19 PM, jhcha54008@free.fr wrote:

I wonder if the line in the patch of bug #920353 [1] :

pata-modules-${kernel:Version}

would still be helpful. (I haven't tested since I
submitted the bug report)

I missed that part back then because you put two different topics
into one bug report. I only addressed the issue with the release
name but not the missing pata-modules entry. I will have a look if
it's indeed missing and add the drivers.

The pata-modules are indeed missing in the initramfs for the installer
CDROM and the cause of my installation problems on my DS25 (see [1] and follow-ups). I haven't yet tested on my DS20E and ES45, but assume they
are also affected, if their disc drives are attached to a PATA port.

[1]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2019/05/msg00000.html

I now think we also need to add the "ata-modules" UDEB to the initramfs
for the installer CDROM, as this contains the `libata` module, which
seems to be a dependency of at least the `pata_ali` module:

```
root@ds25:/lib/modules/4.19.0-4-alpha-smp/kernel/drivers/ata# modprobe
-v pata_ali
insmod /lib/modules/4.19.0-4-alpha-smp/kernel/drivers/ata/libata.ko
insmod /lib/modules/4.19.0-4-alpha-smp/kernel/drivers/ata/pata_ali.ko
```

...and possibly others (see [2]).

[2]: https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/blob/master/debian/installer/modules/ata-modules

Cheers,
Frank

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On 5/8/19 11:29 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:

I now think we also need to add the "ata-modules" UDEB to the initramfs
for the installer CDROM, as this contains the `libata` module, which
seems to be a dependency of at least the `pata_ali` module:

```
root@ds25:/lib/modules/4.19.0-4-alpha-smp/kernel/drivers/ata# modprobe
-v pata_ali
insmod /lib/modules/4.19.0-4-alpha-smp/kernel/drivers/ata/libata.ko
insmod /lib/modules/4.19.0-4-alpha-smp/kernel/drivers/ata/pata_ali.ko
```

...and possibly others (see [2]).

Yes, again, I will look into this and add all the missing module udebs. I have done this before multiple times and usually it's enough to sync the module
list of the affected architecture with the other architectures. Both these udebs are common across all architectures and they are probably missing
for alpha because they were named differently in the past.

Adrian

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