Eric Wong wrote: > o after the boot disc loaded, the floppy spun up automatically > again and I got a partition check error (cannot find PRIVHEAD > struct) which is just the system checking out the usb port, > I suppose. No biggie. I've seen this too, it's just kernel nonsense I suppose. > o put in the root disc and pressed return and it loaded all right > except I got a 'EIP' warning (Unable to handle NULL ptr deference > 000000ff / Printing EIP: / 000000ff / ... (and then a lot of > register stuff)). Sounds like a kernel oops. You were very lucky that it continued to work after an oops. I suspect that your hardware is not exactly well supported by the kernel, but there is not much the d-i project can do about this except try to work around it. The current workaround (only scanning the disk when you hit enter) seems to be working mostly, I was getting reports of oopses and then crashing on vaios using the old method. > o after that, everything seemed to work all right. Did 'go back' > before reboot and tried unsuccessfully to save logs and conf to > floppy Yeah, that's a known problem, USB floppys are not supported yet by that part of the installer. > o reboot hung when trying to load network driver (irq conflict?). > It looked something like this: > > Loading e100 module. > > Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver - version 2.3.18-k > > Copyright... > > > > PCI: Enabling device 00:06.0 (0000 -> 0003) > > PCI: Found0dn 0:06.00 > > reboot again worked, but without nic. edit /etc/discover-autoskip > to load nic module. reboot again worked with nic, continue with > base-config. Looks like a difference between hard (power off/on) > and soft. When I power-down, power-up, the e100 modules loads all > right, when I reboot from the command line, it fails. Maybe some > BIOS tuning will fix. Ok, this is another one that I doubt d-i can do anything about. Sounds weird. -- see shy jo
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