Greg Bell <greg.b...@artemech.com> (2015-02-13): > I'm not sure what is going on, but I can't get it to fail again. > > I made ZERO changes to the PXE configuration or preseed files between > my previous message and starting work on this tonight, but for some > reason it's working again. > > I've been working on this for the last 4 hours and all of the units > that would not detect hard drives via have been reliably detecting and > installing without any issue. (tested with and without preseed files, > with and without the CD, and with several different mirrors.) > > The only thing that I can think of is that the PXE server somehow > cached the kernel and initrd.gz files and was still using the old > files during my testing yesterday, and that cache expired at some > point in the interim. > > (For the record, we updated from the 04/24/2014 netboot build to > 01-05-2015/current as part of our diagnostics yesterday morning.) > > I'm going to try and roll those files back after these are all > installed and issued, and test to see if the issue comes back. (just > to confirm that it was an outdated kernel that caused the problem.)
The kernel vs. udeb version mismatch is very likely to be the issue here indeed. Mraw, KiBi.
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