Re: USB CD boot and autoinstall (preseeding)
Hi,
I think I have a bug here. I have found a workaround though. See below.
Alexandre Conrad wrote:
LABEL ks
menu label ^Auto-install (preseed)
kernel /install/vmlinuz
append locale=en_US console-setup/layoutcode=fr
console-setup/variantcode=oss_latin9
file=/cdrom/preseed/mediaplayer.seed initrd=/install/initrd.gz
I finally have set the following to have my USB CD found after the
xubuntu install splash screen (right after the BIOS):
"""
append locale=en_US console-setup/layoutcode=fr
console-setup/variantcode=oss_latin9 cdrom-detect/load_floppy?=false
cdrom-detect/manual_config=true cdrom-detect/cdrom_module=none
cdrom-detect/cdrom_device=/dev/scd0 file=/cdrom/preseed/mediaplayer.seed
initrd=/install/initrd.gz
"""
Note the "load_floppy" has a ?=false value. Which means we're setting
the default to false but still keep the user interaction. This is
because when "cdrom-detect/load_floppy=false" is set, it turns out it
doesn't detect the CD drive. If I put some latency (user interaction),
it works. Also, if I press "false" really fast (human reflexe timing), I
get the error as well. If I take my time and wait a second or so, the CD
is found no problem and the media starts being scanned.
This is very odd. But it seems that the "cdrom module" or whatever loads
to get the USB CD to work doesn't have enough time to be loaded and the
detection fails. If the detection fails, I press continue, and I retry
CDROM detection, it works just fine.
So this doesn't make a *fully* automatic install. Has anyone experienced
this before?
Regards,
--
Alexandre CONRAD
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