Hi! On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Luca Capello <l...@pca.it> wrote: > Hi Per! > > On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 01:29:05 +0100, Per Andersson wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Luca Capello <l...@pca.it> wrote: >>> On Tue, 06 Nov 2012 10:01:49 +0100, Per Andersson wrote: >>>> It still hangs on iso-scan of /dev/sda3 (the extended partition). A >>>> wild guess is >>>> that iso-scan can't handle it correctly, last thing in the logs state that >>>> it is >>>> waiting for /dev/sda2. (Is this a bug in iso-scan, being confused about >>>> how to >>>> handle extended partitions?) >>> > > Never mind, this problem is no more present in 3.2.0-4-486_3.2.32-1 :-)
Yes, this works with the new daily images. > The 20121107-00:18 hd-media and 20121105-04:30:14 DVD-1 images work as > expected for iso-scan together, but there is a new error with partman: > > <http://bugs.debian.org/692591> > > Here is the correct diff WRT Git for preseed.cfg I tested on the Debian > Events Box with the images above: > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > diff --git a/preseed.cfg b/preseed.cfg > index 9920353..b617046 100644 > --- a/preseed.cfg > +++ b/preseed.cfg > @@ -2,6 +2,11 @@ > # See the Installation Guide for other preconfiguration options > > ### Network configuration > +# Disable network configuration entirely. This is useful for cdrom > +# installations on non-networked devices where the network questions, > +# warning and long timeouts are a nuisance. > +#d-i netcfg/enable boolean false If this is uncommented netcfg exits with error code 139 and segfaults on libc-2.13.so. This makes it impossible to continue since it just crashes when re-run. (Might be because this box has intel wireless and needs firmware-iwlwifi in order to autodetect network.) > # netcfg will choose an interface that has link if possible. This makes it > # skip displaying a list if there is more than one interface. > d-i netcfg/choose_interface select auto I needed to disable asking for firmware (thinkpad x61s has intel wireless nic as mentioned earlier and it needs firmware-iwlwifi). diff --git a/preseed.cfg b/preseed.cfg index 9920353..3803f8e 100644 --- a/preseed.cfg +++ b/preseed.cfg @@ -31,6 +31,11 @@ d-i netcfg/confirm_static boolean true d-i netcfg/get_hostname string babelbox d-i netcfg/get_domain string unassigned-domain +# If non-free firmware is needed for the network or other hardware, you can +# configure the installer to always try to load it, without prompting. Or +# change to false to disable asking. +d-i hw-detect/load_firmware boolean false + ### Mirror settings d-i mirror/country string enter information manually d-i mirror/http/hostname string 10.0.2.2 > Please confirm that everything is now OK :-) I found a few other issues: * When network is autodetected and autoconfigured netcfg hangs in an infinite loop doing ARPING on the gateway (I think). * It seems /hd-media is unmounted when looking for firmware. This makes preseed_late fail later on. Suggestions? * The text "Demo - $LANG" is rendered on top of the Debian logo on the top right of the installer. Top left would be better placing since there is nothing there except an empty area. * In order to not blank the screen when installing I added kernel parameter diff --git a/babelbox-grub b/babelbox-grub index fc30411..f7e09ee 100644 --- a/babelbox-grub +++ b/babelbox-grub @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ menuentry 'BabelBox install' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --clas insmod ext2 set root='(hd0,1)' echo 'Loading Linux ...' - linux /srv/vmlinuz video=vesa:ywrap,mtrr vga=788 priority=critical console-keymaps-at/keymap=us keyboard-configuration/x + linux /srv/vmlinuz video=vesa:ywrap,mtrr vga=788 consoleblank=0 priority=critical console-keymaps-at/keymap=us keyboard- echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...' initrd /srv/initrd.gz } Best, Per -- 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/CABYrXSSEEYzt9im87NOZQJMXtYMrcn_hMBLnJ8=80_8osgz...@mail.gmail.com
