On Sat, 18 Feb 2023 14:05:20 -0700 Charles Curley <charlescur...@charlescurley.com> wrote:
> Oops. I was talking about grub, you about the initrd. Sorry for the > confusion. I did some more testing. I have three machines set up for testing this setup. dti386: virtual machine, 1 GB memory, pentium2 processor. It will run all the way through its preseed configuration and stop at partitioning the hard drive, where it is supposed to stop. 711983104 Jan 15 20:24 firmware-testing-i386-netinst.iso cdtest: virtual machine, 1 GB memory, Haswell-noTSX processor. I can boot the iso image. It immediately reports not finding the CD-ROM. 728760320 Jan 1 20:35 firmware-testing-amd64-netinst.iso The third one, white, has less than 256MB of memory. It complains of not enough memory after d-i boots. Using the same iso image as dti386, it does not find the iso image. On dti386, the output from mount once the installer has stopped running the preseed is: rootfs on / type rootfs (rw,size=1022128k,nr_inodes=125454) tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=102216k,mode=755) proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime) devtmpfs on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,relatime,size=501832k,nr_inodes=125458,mode=755) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000) /dev/sr0 on /cdrom type iso9660 (ro,relatime,nojoliet,check=s,map=n,blocksize=2048,iocharset=utf8) /dev/sda5 on /media type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro) lsmod does not show "loop". It does show "cdrom" and "isofs", but then so do the other two. I conjecture there is some difference between the i386 iso image and the amd64 iso image. Any ideas? -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
