Bug#737750: debian-installer: Netboot initrd does not download ata-modules or sata-modules udebs
I'm not sure what is going on, but I can't get it to fail again.
I made ZERO changes to the PXE configuration or preseed files between
my previous message and starting work on this tonight, but for some
reason it's working again.
I've been working on this for the last 4 hours and all of the units
that would not detect hard drives via have been reliably detecting and
installing without any issue. (tested with and without preseed files,
with and without the CD, and with several different mirrors.)
The only thing that I can think of is that the PXE server somehow
cached the kernel and initrd.gz files and was still using the old
files during my testing yesterday, and that cache expired at some
point in the interim.
(For the record, we updated from the 04/24/2014 netboot build to
01-05-2015/current as part of our diagnostics yesterday morning.)
I'm going to try and roll those files back after these are all
installed and issued, and test to see if the issue comes back. (just
to confirm that it was an outdated kernel that caused the problem.)
Greg
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 7:50 PM, Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> wrote:
> Greg Bell <Greg.Bell@Artemech.com> (2015-02-12):
>> I would like to mention that I've just hit this bug.
>>
>> I've got a handful of dell laptops here that will install perfectly via DVD,
>> but the netboot image fails to load the drivers for the sata controller.
>>
>> I've confirmed that the network is functional, and watched a tcpdump of the
>> installer downloading the installer components from three different mirrors.
>
> Great, please attach /var/log/syslog from both a DVD-based install and
> from a netboot-based install. Please mention the netboot files you're
> serving as well (even if the relevant information should be in syslog
> already, that wouldn't hurt).
>
> Mraw,
> KiBi.
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