Re: Some problems and questions...
Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de> writes:
> #include <hallo.h>
> Adam Di Carlo wrote on Sat Apr 13, 2002 um 06:58:50PM:
>
> > > B. After installing the drivers from CD, there is an informational
> > > message indicating that drivers may already be loaded.
> >
> > No idea what that's about. Seems like it should be filed as a bug.
>
> No. This is for all that dudes that complained about not beeing able to
> find the driver for their network card, while the driver has been
> already loaded in the kernel.
Oh, I see, ok, good.
> > That seems absolutely crippling to me, e.g., a Serious or higher
> > boot-floppies bug. Does this happen on any particular flavor for
> > i386? all flavors?
>
> Which version of boot-floppies has been used? There was a buggy modconf
> version, but it the current one should be okay. Do you have enough RAM,
> did you make a swap partition?
>
> > > Now, A isn't much of a problem, just confusing for new users, unless no
> > > modules are actuall being loaded because of this. On the other hand, B is
> > > simply confusing. C is a problem for my screen shot collection, but will
> > > only impact those installs needing CD drivers, etc...
>
> Tell more details. Modconf has to work.
FYI, the other detail I realized is that he's running within bochs...
Might be a bochs vs whiptail console thing...
> > > 2. After the reboot, following the base install, I get a lot of screen
> > > shots messed up because the kernel likes to throw "Neighbour Table
> > > Overflow" error messages all over the screen.
>
> This bug have also been fixed in one of the previous boot-floppies
> releases.
>
> > Well, I haven't even seen this. Are you using per chance the bf2.4
> > flavor? This should be filed as a bug against the kernel-image-*
> > package which is relevant.
>
> Most likely because of missing lo-Interface configuration, which was not
> saved by debootstrap in some situations in bfs << 3.0.20 or so.
Dale, were you using 3.0.22? I thought you said you were... maybe we
have some bugs we thought were fixed but which are not...
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