Re: sarge installer and 3rd party modules
Hi Bart,
I'm no expert but this sounds similar to the problem I had booting off a
USB hard drive that I had installed to - only difference seems to be you
require a custom module whereas I just needed to pick up some which were
there but were not being used. Have a look at the instructions in my
installation report...
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/11/msg01601.html
you'd need to put your module in the target as well obviously, not sure
how you'd do that.
It'd be great if the installer made adding extra/custom modules easier
than this... still you can't have everything I suppose ;-).
geoff
Bart Duchesne wrote:
Hi all,
I've been trying to get my system installed with the latest
sarge-netinst image using a USB flashdisk.
I have a supermicro system containing a marvell 4-port SATA controller,
I received the driver source from supermicro compiled it for 2.6.8-1-386
and put the resulting module on the USB stick.
The installer boots allows me to configure country/language/keyboard,
before the install program itself starts I exit to a shell and load the
mv_sata.ko driver, it loads correctly and disks are detected.
I can continue to setup the system (even the RAID ; it surprised me but
you guys made really a great installer).
But when installing the base system, there suddendly comes an error
while creating the initrd image that it cannot find the mv_sata module
and the installer stops.
What is the best way to include a 3rd party module that works as it
should in the installer process ?
regards,
Bart Duchesne
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