Bug#687212: Bug#677931: installation-report: testing image does not boot on QNAP TS-212 (armel) / stable works
* Eugeniy Meshcheryakov <eugen@debian.org> [2012-09-10 23:48]:
> > If you have any ideas on how this could be improved, let me know.
> The fix was as "easy" as adding this preseed file and rebuilding the
> recovery image:
>
> d-i netcfg/no_default_route boolean true
>
> After this QNAP booted successfully and I was able to login and fix the
> network configuration from command line. D-I does not seem to require
> DNS setup. Is there any reason not to use this setting for all
> network-console installs?
I think this addition makes sense. I was going to commit the patch
below, but it seems the git repo is in a bit of mess at the moment.
I'll sort this out with Loic Minier and get this patch added.
diff --git a/oldsys-preseed b/oldsys-preseed
index fa988d0..f92c48b 100755
--- a/oldsys-preseed
+++ b/oldsys-preseed
@@ -317,6 +317,10 @@ if [ "$NONINTERACTIVE" = "yes" ]; then
# Continue if there is missing firmware at ethdetect, and hope that
# it is not actually needed to get on the network.
add "$FILE" "ethdetect/prompt_missing_firmware" "boolean" "false"
+ # Allow network configuration to finish even if the DHCP server
+ # doesn't send a gateway. This way, users can at least connect
+ # to the installer and fix their config.
+ add "$FILE" "netcfg/no_default_route" "boolean" "true"
fi
# Workaround for broken partconf
--
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/
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