lpia kernel used on alternate CD doesn't load cd-rom drivers

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 2.6.28-11.39

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linux (2.6.28-11.39) jaunty; urgency=low

  [ Alan Tull ]

  * SAUCE: mx51: fix to1.1 in mxc_iomux_set_input
    - LP: #348333

  [ Andy Whitcroft ]

  * SAUCE: acer: rfkill disable quirk for ACER Aspire One
    - LP: #319825

  [ Brad Figg ]

  * ARM: Increase CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE for imx51 flavour.
    - LP: #349842
  * ARM: Enable rtl8187 for imx51
    - LP: #349526
  * ARM: Unset CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_DEBUG for imx51
    - LP: #348504

  [ Bryan Wu ]

  * build CRAMFS into kernel to support mounting CRAMFS initrd on iop32x
    machine
    - LP: #349104

  [ Michael Casadevall ]

  * [lpia] Change ATA, SCSI, SD, ext2-4 modules into compiled-in components
    - LP: #347458

  [ Rob Herring ]

  * SAUCE: imx51: fec: fix cache operations for receive
    - LP: #348333

  [ Sam Yang ]

  * SAUCE: Revert ENGR00103870 FEC reopening causes network wdog timeout
    - LP: #348333
  * SAUCE: imx51: fec cache flush functions are incorrect
    - LP: #348333

  [ Upstream Kernel Changes ]

  * Bluetooth: Add fine grained mem_flags usage to btusb driver
    - LP: #268502
  * Bluetooth: Handle bulk URBs in btusb driver from notify callback
    - LP: #268502
  * Bluetooth: Submit bulk URBs along with interrupt URBs
    - LP: #268502

 -- Tim Gardner <email address hidden> Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:37:32 -0600

Today's (2 March 2009) daily build of Jaunty Alternate Lpia still hangs on the "common Cd-rom not found" while installing on a Aspire One

lordnisse: That's because the installer needs to be rebuilt against this kernel. This is trivial but it needs me to do a manual upload, rather than being automatic as soon as the new kernel appears. I'll do an upload later today.

thank god, even the netinstall is not working, as it can't configure the Lan...

The same bug in the jaunty kubuntu alternate install cd, i386 arch, booting Asus EEE PC 901.
This bug is really going to be gold - I stepped it also in the intrepid. Is it ever going to be fixed ???

The following does not help:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick

Mounting the USB stick as /cdrom

This step is only needed for the Alternate install CD and Ubuntu 6.10 or older.

Switch to the second virtual console during the first couple of dialogs (when asked about your preferred language for the installation etc.) by pressing the ""ALT-F2"". Do the following:

    * mkdir /cdrom /dev/cdroms
    * cd /dev/cdroms
    * ln -s ../sda1 cdrom0 (where sda1 is your USB drive)
    * mount -t vfat /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /cdrom

If you're seeing this error with something other than lpia (and most certainly if you're seeing this issue with the fix described above (included in Jaunty) applied), you're seeing a different bug. Please file a new bug for your experience with the i386 jaunty kubuntu alternate install CD. Please be sure to include details of your optical drive in that new bug.

I still get the CD-ROM error on Acer One a110 e eeepc 901

with the "ubuntu-9.04-alternate-lpia.iso" downloaded from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/jaunty/release/ today

Any ideas?

I am having this same issue with the last Karmic alpha 5 LPIA alternate installer.

So, reopening as confirmed, nominating for Karmic.

I suggest a cron job for opening this bug over and over again for
every ubuntu release (including betas and rc's). :)

That was a joke and here is soultion, that helped me numerous times
during installation of at least 3 different Ubuntu releases (8.10,
9.04 hits this bug even in a release, 9.10)

Make a change to cdrom detection script, which is (i believe)
/var/lib/dpkg/info/cdrom-detect.postinst

there is a line in it like

if db_get cdrom-detect/try-usb && [ "$RET" = "true" ]; then

in this line "&&[ "$RET" = "true" ]" should be removed and then
everything goes OK.

Actually upon loading alternate install cd one of my first actions are
to switch to another console, edit the file
/var/lib/dpkg/info/cdrom-detect.postinst and then proceed as usual.
This always worked.

I am not sure about any regressions though (e.g. to other installation usecases)

2009/9/11, Fabián Rodríguez <email address hidden>:
> I am having this same issue with the last Karmic alpha 5 LPIA alternate
> installer.
>
> So, reopening as confirmed, nominating for Karmic.
>
> ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
> Status: Fix Released => Confirmed
>
> ** Tags added: regression-potential
>
> --
> lpia kernel used on alternate CD doesn't load cd-rom drivers
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/347458
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> When booting the jaunty alternate lpia CD (either directly or from a USB key
> created with usb-creator), the installer cannot mount /cdrom, which limits
> the ability to install.
>
> This results in the "No common CD-ROM drive was detected." error.
>
> This is trivial to replicate in kvm, with `kvm -cdrom
> jaunty-alternate-lpia.iso`, and proceeding through the install.
>
> Note that no amount of fiddling with modprobe was able to access either a
> virtual or real CD-ROM drive under kvm, nor mount a USB drive created with
> usb-creator.
>
> This behaviour was observed with linux-lpia 2.6.28-9-lpia and earlier.
>

This problem
  "No common CD-ROM drive was detected"
occurs also in Xubuntu-alternate of both 9.04 and 9.10 alpha-6.

In the same box, when I am trying installing Xubuntu 9.04 desktop,
There are other installation problems (due to lack of RAM? 112MB).
But the CD is well driven and /var/log/{kern.log,syslog} show (time-stamps removed):

====
 sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
 scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM MATSHITA UJDA110 1.10 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
 sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 14x/14x xa/form2 cdda tray
 Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
 sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
 sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5
====

Could it be that in the 'alternate' variant, for this device,
the driver or probing-functionality is missing?

As of Ubuntu-2.6.31-4.20 the lpia kernel and the i386/generic kernel have the same kernel configurations, the d-i installer config is also identicle. So it is worth confirming that this bug exists on the H/W in the latest LPIA CD and if so also checking the i386 CD to see if both are affected. Please report back here. Thanks!

Andy,

I use only the regular i386 distribution.
I did not pay much attention to the 'lpia' thing.

At least for i386, I bypassed the problem by manually insmod-ing missing
driver.
See my comment in
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cdrom-detect/+bug/195614/comments/8

Is there still a need for me to check a new ubuntu-alternate ?

regards -- yotam

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Andy Whitcroft <email address hidden> wrote:

> As of Ubuntu-2.6.31-4.20 the lpia kernel and the i386/generic kernel
> have the same kernel configurations, the d-i installer config is also
> identicle. So it is worth confirming that this bug exists on the H/W in
> the latest LPIA CD and if so also checking the i386 CD to see if both
> are affected. Please report back here. Thanks!
>
> ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed => Incomplete
>
> --
> lpia kernel used on alternate CD doesn't load cd-rom drivers
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/347458
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

Doesn't this still affect users trying to install from a USB key in karmic?

Sorry - I have not tried this on Karmic -- yotam

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Jean-François Fortin Tam <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Doesn't this still affect users trying to install from a USB key in
> karmic?
>
>

This bug was filed against a series that is no longer supported and so is being marked as Won't Fix. If this issue still exists in a supported series, please file a new bug.

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