Hi Norbert, I can confirm that this no longer works (as described).
It looks to me as though we're missing iso-scan and load-iso from the cdrom target, and that as a result we neither include the loop module, nor do we attempt to mount the usb stick, nor look for the ISO therein. One can just use the hd-media kernel and initrd (actually I think one could get away with just the initrd, and the kernel from the ISO, but that's probably asking for trouble). Having just tried that with the vmlinuz and initrd.gz found here: http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/installer-i386/current/images/hd-media/ it gets past the failure point, and starts loading components from the netinst, so this does work. It strikes me as a bit of a shame that one cannot just take advantage of grub's loopback feature to use the files found within the iso image. Adding the missing components would allow this, so I think that's the right thing to do unless there's some space constraint that this would break. BTW the test I just did ended up doing a "Full Disk Search" before it found the ISO, so we'd also want to make sure that the ISO is somewhere that we're hunting for it, or perhaps just specify its location on the command line (I've not looked into the options to make that work yet). Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg, GERMANY
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