Hi Sven, Sven Luther said: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 10:56:23AM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote: >> Sven Luther said: >> > On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:28:46AM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote: >> >> Mmmh, i did try netboot. But kernel gets stuck to "Now booting kernel >> >> too..." >> > >> > Well, but it makes debugging easier and quicker. >> > >> > Could you please try netbooting >> > >> > http://people.debian.org/~luther/debian-installer/daily-powerpc-built/2004-07-13/powerpc/netboot/2.6/vmlinuz-prep.initrd >> > >> > With the console=ttyS0 option or whatever, and send me the serial log >> ? >> >> Hi Sven. I thought I'd give that kernel a try. I don't netboot, put >> I wrote that kernel to my second harddisk and booted from it. In >> summary, it boots, but it doesn't seem to include the pcnet32 driver. >> Since every single RS6000 "offical" ethernet card that I've ever seen >> uses pcnet32, I'd say its important to include it in the initrd. > > Ok, mmm, you mean the pcnet32 driver is not in the debian-installer net > drivers ? > > It is in the nic-extra-modules, which is not part of the initrd, we will > fix this, either move it to nic-modules or add the nic-extra-modules to > the initrd. > > Thanks for testing. Could you try again tomorrow or later ?
Just to let you know I tried your latest 2.6 vmlinuz-prep.initrd kernel and this time the installer detected my ethernet card just fine. This time it got to the partitioner without loading a SCSI driver. I might be a bit dim but I couldn't work out how to download the additional kernel modules for that. Regards, Leigh. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
