Bug#285741: [sparc32] crc32.o module missing in sid_d-i
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Blars Blarson wrote:
Package: installation-reports
installing from sid d-i netboot cd 20041210
Hardware:
sparcstation LX (sun4m)
Memory: 96MB
Serial console
Good news: it now finds and mounts the cdrom
Bad news: d-i has errors loading the sunlance module, so no ethernet
durring install. Possible mismatching kernel/module.
Actually it is due to the fact that crc32.o kernel module is missing from
the nic-modules udeb (present for sparc64). I have run a few builds of
linux-kernel-di-sparc (0.62) to understand what's going on and the results
were non-deterministic: sometimes the crc32.o would get included into the
udeb, sometimes not. So far I was not able to clearly isolate conditions
leading to the erroneous behavior. I'll investigate more.
Second stage didn't boot at first, needed to power cycle the machine.
Seemed even slower than before. Paused minutes at a time with no
obvious action taking place.
Configuring exim4 as local only hung the machine, neede to power cycle
again. Restarted stage 2 from the begining.
Told it not to configure exim4. Finished the install then got stuck
giving error messaages about the tty. ^C at the point caused a kernel
oops. (Sorry, I wasn't capturing the output.)
I would guess that unconfigured network can cause such timeouts. Can you
try to configure the network manually? One possibility is to copy the
crc32.o module from the /target/lib/modules, modprobe sunlance and retry
the network configuration step before reboot.
Best regards,
Jurij Smakov jurij@wooyd.org
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