Ariel Garcia wrote: > A few comments though (sent the full testing/beta2 report to the BTS, > didn't get the # yet): > > - please write down the right boot parameters in the > INSTALLATION_HOWTO!! :-) The HOWTO links to the wiki's netboot page, which explains this. > devfs=mount console=tty0 ramdisk_size=8192 root=/dev/ram0 > > - i guess the d-i uses a frambuffer... the left column > and several of the bottom lines were falling out of the screen. Also the > fonts do not get rendered very nicely (blurred in certain columns of the > screen). Would it be possible to use a standard text mode console by > default? Or is there any fb mode that you can be sure it will be > rendered right (not cut, nice fonts) with all the video adapters? Not if we want to support UTF8. Most systems do not have problems with the frame buffer. > Then i tested the daily build of d-i, which means both > {vmlinuz,netboot-initrd.gz} from today and yesterday (9th and 10th of > Feb.): > > i was kicked out into the main menu after "detecting hardware" because > there was no HD being detected, kernel was saying: > > ignoring BAR0-3 of ide Controller **** > > so there were no ide disks/partitions available for installation.... > Something wrong with the daily buit kernel in comparison to the beta2 > one? You're doing netboot and then it downloads the wrong (or no) disk driver modules from testing. Tell it to install unstable if you want to test beta2 netboot. -- see shy jo
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