On some computer, when I start debian-installer with kernel option "vga=788 auto priority=critical url=<tftp url to preseed> hw-detect/load_firmware=false debian-installer/locale=fr_FR.UTF-8 debian-installer/language=fr debian-installer/country=FR keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap=fr-latin9".

After some search, I noticed that the ahci kernel module was not loaded when I use preseed.

To help to solve the problem, I joined all available log from debian-installer and the preseed I use. About package source, http://repos.ati33.lan:3142 is a apt-cache-ng server, version 0.8.0-3. I use it in all package downloading for these computers.

About options, I added "hw-detect/load_firmware=false" since, on some hardware, the default option is to try to load firmware and debian-installer looped to try to load firmware, and I don't need firmware at this point.
I also eard that "priority=critical" were useless since I have "auto".
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Hi Gilles,

Gilles MOREL <contact@gilles-morel.fr> (2017-08-17):

This is strange, it seems the sata-modules udeb is fetched just fine,
I'm not sure why ahci wouldn't be loaded.

linux.git has this as its configuration:

    debian/installer/modules/sata-modules:drivers/ata/ahci* ?

so ahci* modules should end up in that udeb, and that's indeed the
case for what I can see.

Are you using brand new hardware for which support might be missing?
Is the non-preseed installation loading appropriate modules… on the
same HW as the failing preseed installation?


KiBi.

Hi Cyril,

The ahci kernel module does exist in debian-installer, I can load manually and, then, the hard drive appears, but too late.
When I manually install, the kernel modules are correctly (that is to say xhci_pci AND ahci).
The hardware was bought in 2016.

I don't know about linux.git configuration, I don't use it in debian-installer.
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le jeudi 17 août 2017 à 17:48:10 +0200
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Re: Bug#872410: AHCI module not loaded when using preseed
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Hi Gilles,

Gilles MOREL <contact@gilles-morel.fr> (2017-08-17):

This is strange, it seems the sata-modules udeb is fetched just fine,
I'm not sure why ahci wouldn't be loaded.

linux.git has this as its configuration:

    debian/installer/modules/sata-modules:drivers/ata/ahci* ?

so ahci* modules should end up in that udeb, and that's indeed the
case for what I can see.

Are you using brand new hardware for which support might be missing?
Is the non-preseed installation loading appropriate modules… on the
same HW as the failing preseed installation?


KiBi.

Could this be due to a missing 'depmod' in the installer?

Ben.

Hello,

I don't know this message is for me, but I don't know what is a 'depmod' and I don't know how to add one in the installer, considering I use the netinstaller from debian-installer-9-netboot-amd64 package.
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le jeudi 17 août 2017 à 22:50:28 +0100
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Re: Bug#872410: AHCI module not loaded when using preseed
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Could this be due to a missing 'depmod' in the installer?

Ben.

	Hello,

Is there any news about this bug?
Must I try something to help debug?
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le jeudi 17 août 2017 à 17:48:10 +0200
avec Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12)

Re: Bug#872410: AHCI module not loaded when using preseed
---------------------------------------------------
Hi Gilles,

Gilles MOREL <contact@gilles-morel.fr> (2017-08-17):

This is strange, it seems the sata-modules udeb is fetched just fine,
I'm not sure why ahci wouldn't be loaded.

linux.git has this as its configuration:

    debian/installer/modules/sata-modules:drivers/ata/ahci* ?

so ahci* modules should end up in that udeb, and that's indeed the
case for what I can see.

Are you using brand new hardware for which support might be missing?
Is the non-preseed installation loading appropriate modules… on the
same HW as the failing preseed installation?


KiBi.

	Hello,

Is that possible to have any nows about this bug, I still don't have any answer since mid-August.
Pearhaps you're working on it, but I don't know because I have no answer to my last two messages.

This is my first bug report, so I don't know how it is supposed to work.

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Hi,

Gilles MOREL <contact@gilles-morel.fr> (2017-09-04):

Well, I've been busy trying to put pieces together to release D-I Buster
Alpha 1. Now, your mails are amongst 800+ unread ones in my debian-boot@
folder. Maybe others have more free time than I have. In any cases, when
someone has time to look into your issue, you'll get a reply.


KiBi.

Hello,

I have the same problem as reported here. Hardware is an Intel NUC7i5.

Digging a little deeper into the problem it looks like a timing issue to me.

The sata-modules udeb is loaded. It contains the ahci-module and after
"depmod -a" (line 33 @ bin/hw-detect) the ahci-module appears in
"modules.dep". So far everything seems to be fine.

The problem is around "update-dev" (line 233 @ bin/hw-detect). This
issues "udevadm trigger --action=add" but after that the ahci-module
is NOT loaded.

Delaying the "update-dev" command by adding a "sleep 3" in front of it
results in a normally loaded ahci-module. "sleep 2" isn't enough on my
hardware.

I've no idea why.

Interestingly: placing an "udevadm control --reload" in front of
"update-dev" instead of "sleep 3" does the job but it only delays the
"update-dev" command by less than 1 second.

Jörg

Hello Gilles,

with this HACK you don't have to modify your kernel, initrd or
udeb-repository. Simply add this line to your preseed file:

d-i preseed/early_command string sed -i '/depmod -a > .dev.null 2>&1 ||
true/a modprobe ahci || true' /bin/hw-detect

It tries to modify /bin/hw-detect to unconditionally try to load the
ahci module after the "depmod -a"-command at the beginning of the
script. hw-detect is called (at least) 2 times before partitioning.
First for network-detect (at this time the sata-modules-udeb is
obviously not available and modprobe will fail) and a second time form
disk-detect. Now the sata-modules-udeb should have been installed
already and the ahci-module is ready to install - after "depmop -a" of
course.

This is no solution for the root cause of the problem.

To further investigate this it would be nice if you could confirm my
guess of a timing problem. For this you could add this line to your
preseed file (instead of the above of course):

d-i preseed/early_command string sed -i '/^update-dev >.dev.null$/i
sleep 10' /bin/hw-detect

or this:

d-i preseed/early_command string sed -i '/^update-dev >.dev.null$/i
udevadm control --reload' /bin/hw-detect

Hope this helps.

Jörg

Hello Jörg,

All the lines you suggested me work for my problem. I put the third in my configuration.
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le mercredi 02 mai 2018 à 18:25:35 +0200
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Re: Bug#872410: AHCI module not loaded when using preseed
--------------------------------------------------
Hello Gilles,

with this HACK you don't have to modify your kernel, initrd or
udeb-repository. Simply add this line to your preseed file:

d-i preseed/early_command string sed -i '/depmod -a > .dev.null 2>&1 ||
true/a modprobe ahci || true' /bin/hw-detect

It tries to modify /bin/hw-detect to unconditionally try to load the
ahci module after the "depmod -a"-command at the beginning of the
script. hw-detect is called (at least) 2 times before partitioning.
First for network-detect (at this time the sata-modules-udeb is
obviously not available and modprobe will fail) and a second time form
disk-detect. Now the sata-modules-udeb should have been installed
already and the ahci-module is ready to install - after "depmop -a" of
course.

This is no solution for the root cause of the problem.

To further investigate this it would be nice if you could confirm my
guess of a timing problem. For this you could add this line to your
preseed file (instead of the above of course):

d-i preseed/early_command string sed -i '/^update-dev >.dev.null$/i
sleep 10' /bin/hw-detect

or this:

d-i preseed/early_command string sed -i '/^update-dev >.dev.null$/i
udevadm control --reload' /bin/hw-detect

Hope this helps.

Jörg

Still having this problem with buster and newer hardware "Intel NUC8".

Sometimes the ahci module gets loaded without any modification
of the installer (/bin/hw-detect).

When using the old hack
 > d-i preseed/early_command string
 >   sed -i '/^update-dev >.dev.null$/i udevadm control --reload'
 >   /bin/hw-detect
the ahci module seems to be loaded reliably.


Jörg