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Re: d-i testing pre-rc3



On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 12:29:12AM +0200, Rolf Anders wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 01:10:37PM -0600, Stephen R Marenka wrote:
> > Please help test debian-installer to make sure we can make a clean
> > rc3 release. In particular, I can only test m68k/mac so all the other
> > subarchs are somewhat untested.
> > 
> > d-i images: <http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/installer-m68k/20050305/images/>
> > 
> > cd images: <http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/m68k/current/>
> 
> I tested nativehd/initrd.gz with kernels/vmlinuz-2.4.27-amiga
> (both from sarge-m68k-netinst.iso (Snapshot 20050317)) on my
> Amiga1200/060. Unfortunately I didn't get very far.  After the installer
> said that it didn't detect any ethernet card I chose apne from the list,
> but it failed to load.  dmesg gave the following output:
> 
> Looking for PCMCIA ethernet card : ethernet PCMCIA card inserted
> apne.c:v1.1 7/10/98 Alain Malek (Alain.Malek@cryogen.ch)
> PCMCIA NE*000 ethercard probe<1>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000031f

this is an old problem, apne and some other Amiga ethernet card
configurations bite each other.

For apne you need a kernel built without any of the other
cards.. I think we need to disable this bug in the config
untill we decide how to fix that.

Bye
Richard



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