Re: Fail installing Debian GNU/Hurd 2021 in SATA AHCI mode, over Thinkpad R61i

[Samuel Thibault]

Samuel Thibault, le mar. 17 août 2021 17:52:16 +0200, a ecrit:
> Almudena Garcia, le mar. 17 août 2021 17:43:02 +0200, a ecrit:
> > This time, I tried to install Debian GNU/Hurd 2021 in a Thinkpad R61i, 
> > enabling
> > SATA AHCI mode in the BIOS.
> > 
> > In this occasion, the installer (although keep the error about the changes 
> > in
> > partition table may require reboot to be applied)
> 
> Is it still talking about /dev/wd0 and not /dev/sd0?
> 
> Really, rumpdisk is still quite experimental at this point, I don't
> think it is worth trying to debug it in the debian installer context
> where we don't have debugging tools etc.

Put another way, just to repeat myself what we want to know is why
gnumach's ahci driver is not managing to drive it. For that it's
probably simpler to use your already-installed system, to easily work on
the kernel, e.g. use console=com0 to redirect kernel messages through a
serial cable.

Samuel