Am Die, den 11.11.2003 schrieb Joe Nahmias um 09:16: > Alright, here are the highlights of how this install went: > > 0) OK, after much struggling (and dealing with my nemesis error message > 'VFS: Cannot open root device "" or 3a:04') I managed to get the d-i > netboot image to work via PXE. For posterity (and the installation > guide) the magic kernel options I needed to make this work are > "ramdisk_size=8192 root=/dev/ram0". If anyone would like assistance > setting up a PXE testbed or copies of various configs I use please don't > hesitate to ask. It would be nice, if you could write a short addition to the INSTALLATION-HOWTO about your way to install d-i via PXE boot. There is already a very short section on netbooting the installer. If you send a patch to debian-boot, I will look at it and commit it to CVS. > > 1) Install boots into the main menu. Interface looks alot snazzier than > the old text interface, however the line-drawing characters are all > messed up on my terminal (corners are displayed as '>', &c.) Known bug? not know bug, please file one. Sorry I don't know which package to blame for that. btw the installation should not boot into main-menu but directly go into languagechooser. > > 2) Picking "Choose language" doesn't get very far. This is what I can > piece together from syslog: > > DEBUG: Menu item 'languagechooser' selected > DEBUG: configure languagechooser, status: 4 > WARNING **: Configuring 'languagechooser' failed with error code 1 > WARNING **: Menu item 'languagechooser' failed. > > Any ideas? Known unfiled bug? File a new bug against languagechooser? > bug not know. You should have languagechooser 1.03 on your image, which is the same as on the beta1 which works for most people. Please file a bug.
> 3) After doing 'Select a Keyboard Layout', I chose 'Detect network > hardware'. This generated the following two (fatal looking) errors: > > a. An error occured while running 'modprobe -v floppy false`. > b. An error occured while running 'modprobe -v ide-cd false`. > > Since this is a netboot install, these errors should not be fatal. please file a bug on hw-detect (or ethdetect?). It's strange that these are tried for network hardware detection. Probably the installer tries to load additional modules from a floppy? > > 4) When finally presented with a list of ethernet drivers to pick from, > the requisite driver for this laptop -- b44 -- is missing. I tried > switching to vc2 and doing 'modprobe -v b44', but this fails since the > module doesn't exist on the image. How do we get it added? known bug. As of linux-kernel-di 0.12 this driver is in nic-extra-modules. This means you have to load it from an additional floppy. If this is a common NIC then we could add it to nic-modules, which is on the netboot initrd. > PS - This particular laptop doesn't have a serial port, so all > output/error messages are hand-typed and subject to typos, &c. You could try to save /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog to an already formatted partition. gaudenz
