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PXE netinst: No disk drive was detected. (Re: Recent Debian Preseed Error: "Logical Volume Manager not available")



Chris Hiestand wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > Since I am using a Stable netboot I am not updating it until Wheezy.
> > So I can't confirm or deny the problem here.
>
> Would you mind running a test install and seeing if things are still
> working for you? If you have a chance anyway.
> 
> I've now also reproduced the problem with the 32-bit kernel as well.

I have been running virt-install KVM virtual machine builds all day
trying to get a particular task recipe automated.  I have been using
my preseed configuration.  So I was pretty sure this had been working
fine.  I haven't changed anything in my preseed for a while.  But I
also haven't build a new machine on real hardware since the point
release either.  And a VM isn't the same as real hardware.

So I fired up one of my test machines that I had previously been using
for install testing and did a PXE boot and started the automated
installation using my fully automated preseed network install.

And it failed!  I confirmed this on both i386 and amd64.

  No disk drive was detected.  If you know the name of the driver
  needed by your disk drive, you can select it from the list.

You and I both having failures at the same time?  What is the
likelihood that we both broke our installations in the same way?  I
don't think very likely since I haven't been changing anything.  The
only big change recently was the Squeeze point release.

Now I wish I had a stale mirror from last week to test against.  I am
sure that it would work.  And then could do an A-B comparison between
them and search for the problem.

Does anyone know of a mirror of Squeeze 6.0.3 from last week that I
could use to debug this problem?

Bob

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