On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:28:54PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2011-10-18, Marc Haber <mh+debian-packa...@zugschlus.de> wrote: > > when entities deploy Debian via network install, point releases can > > pose challenges. For example, a site I consult for has a mirror which > > is rsynced daily, but the installation server is not updated > > automatically with the latest initrd and kernel files. > > There are debian-installer-6.0-netboot-* packages for this in squeeze > now, FWIW. It helps in quite a bunch of cases, just maybe not in yours. > (The install server needs to run on squeeze.) ;-)
The install server in question is an ancient CentOS for historic reasons. > > [1] I don't have the slightest idea why this issue has only surfaced > > after 6.0.3 > > It certainly happens for new kernel ABIs. But yeah, point releases > regularly break d-i netboot images because of the way they work. > Basically whenever we respin the kernel udebs and then d-i to > incorporate new security updates / other misc bugfixes. I wonder what > was different here if it didn't happen with .1 or .2 (which both had > non-ABI breaking d-i kernel updates). Do you have some sort of > failure message? I don't remember exactly, the symptom was that the mptsas driver didn't load (and also wasn't loadable manually), leaving the system diskless. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 31958061 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 31958062 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111019080559.ga24...@torres.zugschlus.de
