Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > With my latest PXE installation testing on a laptop, I ran into a > problem I suspect is related to this fix: > > [ Joey Hess ] > * check-missing-firmware: When called from ethdetect, take interfaces > up and down each time through the loop. Previously this was only done > once, which caused a bug, as the first pass through does not prompt > for missing firmware, and on subsequent passes, the firmware was not > requested. Closes: #537502 > (Thanks, Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen) > > When testing PXE on a HP Mini laptop, the PXE installer starts > normally, is able to download udebs and continue to the point where > partman try to download more packages. At this point 'route' report > there is no longer any routes set up, and connections to the mirror > fails. I looked in the syslog, and hw-detect was running just before > partman started, making me suspect it is the cause of this problem. Except that code path can only be activated if check-missing-firmware is run with a list of ethernet interfaces to up/down, which hw-detect does not pass. Only ethdetect does. -- see shy jo
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