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Bug#537502: marked as done (netboot for Squeeze: everything failed... +no error checking)

Your message dated Sat, 11 Sep 2010 15:25:32 +0000
with message-id <E1OuRxM-0004xM-H1@ravel.debian.org>
and subject line Closing oldbug report against debian-installer #537502
has caused the Debian Bug report #537502,
regarding netboot for Squeeze: everything failed... +no error checking
to be marked as done.

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Package: debian-installer
Version: 20090718-19:05

$ cat version.info
Debian version:  6.0 (squeeze)
Installer build: 20090718-19:05

I tried netboot installer from http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/netboot/netboot.tar.gz on old PC with PXE loader on NIC.

Automatic network configuration had failed. Thanks to log console, I explore that it seems it was some global failure with system - just no normal error detection and handling was made where they should be done.

Here piece of text I written down from log console (it goes after 'menu: Entering NIC detecting'):

...
hw-detect: Loading PCMCIA bridge driver module: i82365
kernel: Intel ISA PCIC probe: not found.
hw-detect: FATAL: Error inserting i82365 (/lib/modules/2.6.29-2-486/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/i82365.ko): No such device

check-missing-firmware: no missi...
kernel: e100 0000:00:0a.0: firmware: requesting e100/d101m_ucode.bin
kernel: e100: eth0: e100_request_firmware: Failed to load firmware "e100/d101m_ucode.bin": -2
check-missing-firmware: no m...

...


Then installer tries to continue (probes DHCP etc) and a number of warnings "Link is down" is written to log while installer tries to use that "link" and reports to user that possibly user's network or DHCP is misconfigured...


Well, I would be glad to save log for you (instead of writting it down from screen and typing it back here to email), but I couldn't: I can't use web (as network is broken), can't mount disk (I see no /dev/hd* at all, though /dev/fd{,0} there exist), and may be tomorrow if I found a floppy I try to use it to save log...


Hardware:
iPentium MMX 233MHz on i430TX-based mainboard, 64M DIMM, IDE HDD, Intel PRO/100+ ethernet PCI. MS Windows98SE works OK.

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We are closing this bug report against debian-installer 
for one of the following reasons:
- it was reported with a pre-lenny version of Debian
  Installer.
- indications in the bug report give the feeling that
  the reported problem was lying in another software, unrelated to
  D-I, which we can't easily identify.
- indications in the installation report suggest that it may have been
  fixed in a more recent version of a D-I component
- it was successful and we forgot closing it..:-)
- it has no information we consider useful


The D-I team is currently in the process of cleaning out the old spool
of installation reports that haven't bene processed yet. 

In case you think that the problem you reported has chances to be
still present, please reiterate your installation test with
a more recent image of D-I, if you're in position of doing this.

You'll find daily builds at
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer. We recommend you choose
the netboot image, in the "daily builds section", then choose to
install "squeeze" when prompted.

If some problems are found, please report them with a new bug sent
against installation-reports.

Many thanks for your understanding and your help improving Debian,
past and present.

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