On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 10:39:27PM +0100, Kars de Jong wrote: > On wo, 2008-10-15 at 20:41 -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > The latest daily [0] d-i netinst cdrom and daily [1] includes a > > tentative 2.6.26 -9 kernel, which includes all the patches [2] > > requested by Michael Schmitz and Finn Thain. > > > > Hopefully we've got about everything? > > > > I haven't got quite a full automated install yet, but I'm getting close. > > :) > > > > Remember this cdrom has etch-m68k as the base, so you'll need > > probably need suite=etch-m68k and modules=etch-support for kernel args. > > Hi Stephen, > > I am currently testing the installer on my MVME167 board with my own > kernel and the nativehd initrd.gz, I specified the above kernel args as > well. > > The installer configures my network interface correctly. > > I am however running into trouble at mirror selection time. Whatever > mirror I select, I keep getting the message "Architecture not supported > by selected mirror". I made sure I chose a mirror which has it > (debian.cs.binghamton.edu). > > When I look in /var/log/syslog I see the following: > > Nov 6 21:16:08 choose-mirror[1483]: DEBUG: command: wget -q http://debian.cs.binghamton.edu/debian//dists/etch-m68k/Release -O - | grep ^Suite: | cut -d' ' -f 2 > Nov 6 21:16:10 choose-mirror[1483]: DEBUG: command: wget -q http://debian.cs.binghamton.edu/debian//dists/stable/Release -O - | grep ^Codename: | cut -d' ' -f 2 > Nov 6 21:16:12 choose-mirror[1483]: INFO: codename set to: etch > Nov 6 21:16:12 choose-mirror[1483]: DEBUG: command: wget -q http://debian.cs.binghamton.edu/debian//dists/stable/main/binary-m68k/Release -O - | grep Architecture > Nov 6 21:16:13 choose-mirror[1483]: DEBUG: Architecture not supported by selected mirror > Nov 6 21:16:19 main-menu[339]: (process:1475): wget: server returned error: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found > Nov 6 21:16:19 main-menu[339]: INFO: Menu item 'choose-mirror' succeeded but requested to be left unconfigured. > > When executing the above commands by hand the first wget returns > "etch-m68k", the second returns "etch", the third wget fails. The > puzzling bit is the second wget, why does it download stable/Release? > > I cannot continue with the installation at this point, and I don't know > how to get past the above failure manually. I can confirm the regression. I'll have to dig into choose-mirror to see what they broke. (Sigh.) Thanks for the report, Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <stephen@marenka.net>
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