PXE Netboot reports, problem with daily built d-i

[Ariel Garcia <garcia@iwr.fzk.de>]

Hi,

i gave the new d-i a try.... it looks really promissing, congrats
everybody.

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!! :-)

    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?


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?

Install Method: PXE boot, IP by dhcp, network install from DE debian
 mirror

Machine: Dual P4 Xeon 2.4GHz server, E7500 board, 82544Ei Gbit ethernet
   + 82557 FastEthernet net cards, 2 IDE WD 120GBy drives, root on hda3

Cheers, Ariel