Re: d-i via floppy/usb/netinst.iso
Gerhard Kroder wrote:
> In general my usb device has a light blinking when data is transfere
> from or to it. But it only blinks a little at beginnig of usb access,
> during "dotting" it doesn't. More, when disconnecting it, though i get
> a "USB disconnect" message dots still apperar as before (currently i see
> 10 lines, each 80 char), still running (disconnected).
>
> ... ok, just verified, light is only on on lager data transfers.
Right, I have the same thing, I expect some buffering is involved.
> catting initrd doesn't blink at all, but wait... netinst.iso ought to be
> around 120 mb, so 0.6s real time is quite fast to read (usb1.1), isn't it?
>
> So, reading from usb is not the issue?
Sure sounds like it's not. Perhaps it is using the wrong usb driver, or
wrongly configuring it. Could you look at the boot messages before it
asks you to hit enter, and compare them to the boot messages on the
working system? In particular the ones about usb-ohci or usb-uhci, and
anything else usb releasted.
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