Christian Perrier wrote:
reassign 509379 hw-detect thanks Quoting Daniel Pocock (daniel@pocock.com.au):Package: debian-installer Installing lenny amd64 on a Dell M600 blade server using PXE/netboot method. bnx2 firmware required for network access. Installer prompts for a floppy or USB device.I attempted to mount an ext3 formatted floppy image, and an ISO CDROMYou attempted to *mount*? What exactly did you try to do apart from putting the firmware file (or deb package for the record) on a removable medium and hit Enter when prompted for firmware?
My explanation wasn't thorough enough: - I saw the prompt to insert the floppy or USB disk - I used the iDRAC (Dell's iLO solution) to enable the virtual floppy- I pressed the OK button in d-i, telling it to search for the removable media
- d-i told me no removable media found (I can't remember the exact message I saw)
- I then opened a shell (Alt-F2) and tried to manually locate the firmware
I only did that after getting errors from d-i. I wanted to know if the removable media was recognised by the installer's kernel. In this case, it was recognised by the kernel as a SCSI device.If you tried some manual actions in a shell in VT2, that might be the cause of the problem.
I will test this on a similar box, as this one has already gone live. It may not happen until January now. Thanks for taking the time to look into this issue, I hope the detail I'm providing is useful.If you just did what's instructed (put the files on a floppy, USB stick or CD, then hit Enter), then something went wrong, really..:-) In such case, after seeing the error message that the media can't be located, could you switch to VT2 (Alt+F2), then check if something is mounted on /media...
Regards, Daniel