* Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-08-23 09:52]: > * Gordon Farquharson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-08-22 21:40]: > > Martin Michlmayr proposed the following workaround, which works, but > > he wasn't sure whether this was the correct way to solve the problem > > [1]. > > FWIW, I'll put this patch into oldsys-preseed, but let's leave #496166 > open in case my patch (and the other existing code in oldsys-preseed) > needs to be reworked now that we have this new firmware handling.
I thought about this some more and I think we handle all situations correctly. Let's look at the different scenarios: - If you don't have a serial console and no IXP4xx microcode, oldsys-preseed will disable IXP4xx microcode loading and use eth1. That's what we want. - If you don't have a serial console and the IXP4xx microcode is on the image, oldsys-preseed will make sure eth0 is used. - If you do have a serial console and a USB adapter, it's possible in theory that you might be interesting to load the IXP4xx microcode via the network with your USB adapter and then use the built-in Ethernet. I don't think that's quite common. But in any case, you wouldn't use a network-console image but that but a normal netboot image (which we don't build for nslu2) and that won't include oldsys-preeed, so again this situation would be fine. I say we close this bug. Joey, any disagreement? -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
