Bug#496166: DFSG installer fails on Linksys NSLU2
* Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> [2008-08-23 09:52]:
> * Gordon Farquharson <gordonfarquharson@gmail.com> [2008-08-22 21:40]:
> > Martin Michlmayr proposed the following workaround, which works, but
> > he wasn't sure whether this was the correct way to solve the problem
> > [1].
>
> FWIW, I'll put this patch into oldsys-preseed, but let's leave #496166
> open in case my patch (and the other existing code in oldsys-preseed)
> needs to be reworked now that we have this new firmware handling.
I thought about this some more and I think we handle all situations
correctly.
Let's look at the different scenarios:
- If you don't have a serial console and no IXP4xx microcode,
oldsys-preseed will disable IXP4xx microcode loading and use
eth1. That's what we want.
- If you don't have a serial console and the IXP4xx microcode is
on the image, oldsys-preseed will make sure eth0 is used.
- If you do have a serial console and a USB adapter, it's possible
in theory that you might be interesting to load the IXP4xx
microcode via the network with your USB adapter and then use the
built-in Ethernet. I don't think that's quite common. But in
any case, you wouldn't use a network-console image but that but
a normal netboot image (which we don't build for nslu2) and that
won't include oldsys-preeed, so again this situation would be
fine.
I say we close this bug. Joey, any disagreement?
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Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/
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