Package: debian-installer Version: 21-Feb-2006 My wife just got a shiny new Fujitsu Lifebook P7120 (thanks to Joey Hess raving about it on Planet the other day). I downloaded the latest nightly build for Etch and tried to install it. This far too much fun, thanks to the SATA CD-ROM drive.
You see, to enable support for SATA CD-ROM drives, you have to set the libata module parameter 'atapi_enabled=1'. If libata were built in, that would be the simple matter of passing 'libata.atapi_enabled=1'. But it's a module, and even in expert mode, libata is loaded before you get to a shell. Busybox doesn't seem to have an rmmod command, so you can't unload it and then load it with the option specified. So you have to boot with BOOT_DEBUG=3 to get a shell prompt where you 'modprobe libata atapi_enabled=1'. If this doesn't get fixed, the workaround needs to be documented. I expect Fujitsu won't be the only people shipping SATA CD-ROMs during the lifecycle of Etch. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
