Bug#517114: debian-installer: preseeding not working

[Kushal Koolwal <kushalkoolwal@hotmail.com>]

Package: debian-installer
Version: 20090123
Severity: important

I tried installing Emdebian Grip 1.0 using the preseeding method suggested at:
http://buildd.emdebian.org/grip/

and the preseeding fails in two ways:
1. First, you do not get a screen (after network detection) which asks you to enter the url of preseeding.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-embedded/2009/02/msg00135.html

2. Even if you pass boot parameters at command line (url=), the preseeding still fails.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-embedded/2009/02/msg00145.html

The Debian Lenny documentation mentions about preseeding - Either we shold remove it from the docs or get it fixed in next stable update.

Thanks


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-vl-deb-ws (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

-- no debconf information