Doesn't scan mmcblk0 for media

[Loïc Minier]

Hi

When starting a d-i alternate desktop armel SD image card on an imx51 babbage board, it says there's no CDROM and offers to ask other mediums, but it doesn't find the SD card; I think it doesn't scan for /dev/mmcblk0* partitions.

Bye

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I suspect we're going to need to add a new device type to list-devices, which cdrom-detect can call.

[Loïc Minier (lool)]

I pushed support for "mmc-partition" in list-devices; note that it might be a bit deceptive since it can't detect MMC partitions on USB connected MMC drives (which are a frequent type in netbooks or screens).

What's your preference WRT to templates for cdrom-detect? Should I add a try-mmc or should I extended try-usb to say that it also tries MMC? Or perhaps I should have try-mmc's value default to try-usb's?

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Are further conditionals necessary here? Can we not just unconditionally scan MMC partitions?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package debian-installer-utils - 1.67ubuntu1

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debian-installer-utils (1.67ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Resynchronise with Debian. Remaining changes:
    - user-params: Don't propagate vga=* or break=* to installed system.
    - Use /proc/self/fd/4 rather than /dev/fd/4 in fetch-url-methods/http;
      the latter doesn't seem to exist in d-i.
    - list-devices: new "usb-partition" type for detecting partitions on USB
      drives.

  [ Evan Dandrea ]
  * Don't include the battery subsystem on calls to udevadm trigger
    (LP: #331883).

  [ Loic Minier ]
  * Add support for listing MMC partitions in list-devices; note that many MMC
    devices in e.g. netbooks or screens are actually connected over USB
    though; LP: #364604.

debian-installer-utils (1.67) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Frans Pop ]
  * Remove myself as uploader.
  * Append .conf extention to /etc/modprobe.d files, as required for
    module-init-tools >= 3.7.

  [ Updated translations ]
  * Italian (it.po) by Milo Casagrande

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:46:18 +0100

[Loïc Minier (lool)]

debian-installer wasn't including the fat udeb in the cdrom image; this will probably help mount the vfat.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package debian-installer - 20081029ubuntu61

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debian-installer (20081029ubuntu61) karmic; urgency=low

  [ Loïc Minier ]
  * armel/dove/netboot.cfg: Use the same MANIFEST-KERNEL as all other kernels,
    i.e. don't mention uImage specially.
  * armel/dove/netboot.cfg: Re-add generation of an uImage since the kernel
    packages/udebs ship zImages again.
  * armel/dove/netboot.cfg: Use $(TEMP_INITRD) $(TEMP_KERNEL) in TARGET
    instead of $(KERNEL) and $(INITRD) as these are the ones we actually take
    as input.
  * build/config/armel/{dove,imx51}.cfg: s/kernel API/kernel ABI/.
  * Add a dove-z0 flavour with a netboot image copied from the dove one, but
    using dove-z0 as output dir.
  * Drop useless "mkdir -p $(TEMP)/dove" in dove's and dove-z0's netboot.cfg.
  * Misc fixes to armel+imx51 pkg-lists:
    - Add netboot/armel/imx51.cfg to include
      nic-modules{,-shared,-usb}-${kernel:Version} and nic-firmware (optional)
      since we currently lack support for builtin ethernet on Babbage 2.x
      boards; also include input-modules-${kernel:Version} for USB keyboard;
      LP: #431283.
    - Add cdrom/arm dir and cdrom/armel symlink and add cdrom/armel/imx51.cfg
      to pull the same modules as for netboot plus
      fat-modules-${kernel:Version} to allow mounting a VFAT on an USB key or
      a SD/MMC card; LP: #364604.
  * Set KERNELNAME to vmlinuz and VERSIONED_SYSTEM_MAP to the empty string in
    imx51.cfg since the kernel and System.map filenames in the udeb aren't
    suffixed with the version number anymore.
  * Bump imx51 ABI version to 2.6.31-101.

  [ Oliver Grawert ]
  * build/config/armel/imx51/netboot.cfg create babbage-TO2-sd.img similar to
    the nslu2 netinstall image to easily start a netinstall from SD on
    babbage 2.x boards
  * add build dependency on redboot-tools to create the above image from
    initrd.gz and vmlinuz files in the netboot dir

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Move to 2.6.31-11 kernels.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:45:59 +0100

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package cdrom-detect - 1.31ubuntu3

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cdrom-detect (1.31ubuntu3) karmic; urgency=low

  * Also check SD/MMC partitions ("list-devices mmc-partition") when
    cdrom-detect/try-usb is set; update template description to reflect this;
    bump di-utils udeb dep to >= 1.67ubuntu1 for this list-devices feature;
    LP: #364604.

 -- Loic Minier <email address hidden> Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:05:19 +0100