{"id":35,"date":"2005-06-26T11:43:04","date_gmt":"2005-06-26T09:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.blackdown.de\/2005\/06\/26\/debian-installer-with-kernel-2611\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T03:51:02","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T01:51:02","slug":"debian-installer-with-kernel-2611","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackdown.de\/articles\/debian-installer-with-kernel-2611\/","title":{"rendered":"Debian Installer With Kernel 2.6.11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"\/2005\/06\/06\/the-sky-is-falling\/\">mentioned<\/a> recently, <a href=\"http:\/\/debian.org\">Debian<\/a> Sarge&#8217;s installer doesn&#8217;t work on my Dell Inspiron 9300. I like Debian but I think it&#8217;s a shame that the sarge installer was already outdated on the day of its release.<\/p>\n<p>The official sarge installer still uses a 2.4 kernel by default but includes a 2.6 kernel that can be used by booting with &quot;<code>install26<\/code>&quot; or &quot;<code>expert26<\/code>&quot;.  But even that kernel, 2.6.8, is too old for the Inspiron 9300. It still doesn&#8217;t recognize the hard disk.<\/p>\n<p>Ubuntu&#8217;s installer, which uses a 2.6.11 kernel, works fine on the machine. Although <a href=\"http:\/\/ubuntu.com\/\">Ubuntu<\/a> is a nice distribution, I like pure Debian better. Unfortunately I wasn&#8217;t able to find any 2.6.11 based Debian installer on the net, even a question on <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.debian.org\/debian-boot\/\">debian-boot<\/a> yielded nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, I finally had the time to build one myself:<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/static\/debian\/debian-2.6.11-i386-businesscard.iso\">debian-2.6.11-i386-businesscard.iso<\/a> (<a href=\"\/static\/debian\/debian-2.6.11-i386-businesscard.iso.sign\">GPG signature<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The image is basically a sarge businesscard ISO with a 2.6.11 kernel from Debian testing instead of the original 2.6.8 kernel.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike with Ubuntu, installation on the Inspiron 9300 still doesn&#8217;t work out of the box but with a few tricks I was able to install Debian sarge:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Boot with <code>expert26<\/code><\/li>\n<li>When the installer starts up, switch to the second console (Alt-F2) and enter these commands:\n<pre>\r\n~ # modprobe ide_generic\r\n~ # modprobe ata_piix<\/pre>\n<p>Without this the installer won&#8217;t find the CD-ROM.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>If network configuration via DHCP fails, just retry &#8212; worked for me<\/li>\n<li>When asked what version of Debian you would like to install, choose <em>stable<\/em>.  Installing <em>testing<\/em> or <em>unstable<\/em> directly doesn&#8217;t work.<\/li>\n<li>It doesn&#8217;t matter which kernel you choose to install, we have to replace it with a 2.6.11 kernel later anyway<\/li>\n<li>Just before the first reboot, that means right after the installer ejects the CD-ROM, switch back to console two. Now download and install the latest available Debian kernel. I&#8217;ve used <a href=\"\/static\/debian\/kernel-image-2.6.11-1-686_2.6.11-7_i386.deb\">2.6.11-1-686<\/a>:\n<pre style=\"overflow:auto;width:100%;\">~ # mount -t proc proc \/target\/proc\r\n~ # chroot \/target\r\nsh-2.05b# cd \/root\r\nsh-2.05b# wget http:\/\/blog.blackdown.de\/static\/debian\/kernel-image-2.6.11-1-686_2.6.11-7_i386.deb\r\nsh-2.05b# dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.11-1-686_2.6.11-7_i386.deb\r\n&hellip;\r\nsh-2.05b# exit\r\n~ # umount \/target\/proc<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<li>Reboot (using the kernel just installed) and complete the installation<\/li>\n<li>Upgrade to <em>testing<\/em> or <em>unstable<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Build a custom kernel (2.6.12 or newer). It&#8217;s probably a good idea to include some additional libata <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kernel.org\/pub\/linux\/kernel\/people\/jgarzik\/libata\/\">patches<\/a>. To get the DVD drive working you have to apply this <a href=\"\/static\/kernel\/ata-atapi.patch\">patch<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned recently, Debian Sarge&#8217;s installer doesn&#8217;t work on my Dell Inspiron 9300. I like Debian but I think it&#8217;s a shame that the sarge installer was already outdated on the day of its release. 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