Bug#394766: Usbstick preseeding error "Failed to retrieve the preconfiguration file"
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: By usbstick
Image version:
20061021 image from http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/hd-media/
Date: Same day
Machine: Tested on Dell latitude D400 and also a D600
Processor: Pentium M 1.7
Memory: 1024MB
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 81)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 [Mobility FireGL 9000] (rev 01)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5702X Gigabit Ethernet (rev 02)
02:01.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711EC1 SmartCardBus Controller (rev 20)
02:01.1 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711EC1 SmartCardBus Controller (rev 20)
02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4309 802.11a/b/g (rev 02)
00:00.0 0600: 8086:3340 (rev 03)
00:01.0 0604: 8086:3341 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:24c2 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 0c03: 8086:24c4 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 0c03: 8086:24c7 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 0c03: 8086:24cd (rev 01)
00:1e.0 0604: 8086:2448 (rev 81)
00:1f.0 0601: 8086:24cc (rev 01)
00:1f.1 0101: 8086:24ca (rev 01)
00:1f.5 0401: 8086:24c5 (rev 01)
00:1f.6 0703: 8086:24c6 (rev 01)
01:00.0 0300: 1002:4c66 (rev 01)
02:00.0 0200: 14e4:16a6 (rev 02)
02:01.0 0607: 1217:7113 (rev 20)
02:01.1 0607: 1217:7113 (rev 20)
02:03.0 0280: 14e4:4324 (rev 02)
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [ ]
Config network: [ ]
Detect CD: [ ]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [ ]
Partition hard drives: [ ]
Create file systems: [ ]
Mount partitions: [ ]
Install base system: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Reboot: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
With the kernel commandline
file=/hd-media/preseed2.cfg
Doing tests with automatic installs and preseed files.
With boot from usbsticks (different kinds) corair voyager 2GB, twinmos 1GB
The install stops with this when getting the preseedfile.
"Failed to retrieve the preconfiguration file"
file://floppy:///hd-media/preseed2.cfg
I think the errormessage is a little bit stange, seems somehow that the
floppy part doesnt belong... I have looked at the code and succesfully
used preseed_fetch from a shell like
preseed_fetch file:///hd-media/preseed2.cfg /foo (made /foo for testing)
and that works fine.
Anyhow I made numerous different setups and just cant get it to work,
Maybe its a bug.
regards
Peter
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bitrunner
0708-460260
Andra Långgatan 28
41327 Göteborg
Sweden
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