Re: Bug#185420: marked as done (boot-floppies - bad kernel choice)
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
Please reopen this. Closing it is a little premature.
First, accept my apology for getting the version wrong. I've been
thinking too much of d-i. It is actually original woody.
Second, I agree with you that it should default to installing the same
version of the kernel I chose to install with. My install kernel is
debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/3.0.23-2002-05-21/bf2.4/tftpboot.img
which I have verified by md5summing all the tftpboot.img files I have in
debian/... and the one in /tftboot. Consequently, I think the fact it
installs a 2.2 kernel is wrong.
Third, I've tried various incantations for getting the correct files.
It's just informed me it wants images-1.44/rescue.bin and drivers.tgz.
I'm looking at CD1:
[root@gw httpd]# locate /var/ftp/pub/linux/mnt/cdrom/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/3.0.23-2002-05-21 | egrep 'drivers.tgz|images-1.44/rescue.bin'
/var/ftp/pub/linux/mnt/cdrom/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/3.0.23-2002-05-21/bf2.4/drivers.tgz
/var/ftp/pub/linux/mnt/cdrom/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/3.0.23-2002-05-21/compact/drivers.tgz
/var/ftp/pub/linux/mnt/cdrom/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/3.0.23-2002-05-21/drivers.tgz
/var/ftp/pub/linux/mnt/cdrom/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/3.0.23-2002-05-21/idepci/drivers.tgz
/var/ftp/pub/linux/mnt/cdrom/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/3.0.23-2002-05-21/images-1.44/rescue.bin
[root@gw httpd]#
I don't see where it could possibly get a 2.4 kernel using those names,
and I cannot override them. From the list above, the only possibilities
are dists/woody/main/disks-i386/3.0.23-2002-05-21/images-1.44/rescue.bin
and dists/woody/main/disks-i386/3.0.23-2002-05-21/drivers.tgz, and I'm
fairy sure those are 2.2.
My install is at this point.
I'll kill the install at this point as it cannot procede, and save the log.
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Oh boy, do those screen control sequences stuff up cut and paste into
vim;-((.
It will be available on request.
btw Since I'm using PXE and tftp to get the kernel, I think offering to
get drivers & kernel by tftp would be a Good Thing. It happens that in
my case, you have all the info you need. I've configured pxelinux to
pass ip=... in the same format the kernel expects, and etherboot can do
that too.
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> Package: boot-floppies
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> dbootstrap/net-fetch.c gives no choice of kernel when fetching the
> kernel from the network (http/ftp).
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> It unconditionally fetches a 2.2 kernel. Many recent computers _require_
> a 2.4 kernel.
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John Summerfield
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