On Sun, 2019-10-27 at 20:18 +0100, Holger Wansing wrote: > Bugreport against kernel version mismatch, when using outdated or broken > netboot images: > > > Since it's unlikely that we completely prevent this issue to happen, maybe we > could at least change the error message, saying that the user should try > another / a newer installation image? > (as already suggested in bug#367515) > > It would be a good time for such template changing now... > Patch attached. I feel that we ought to give a more definite answer, instead of "you can try" and "will probably fail". I don't think that "choosing to install a different version of Debian" is likely to be a useful answer very often, and continuing without kernel modules is definitely going to fail. If I understood correctly, this message can only appear when using a netboot image, and can be caused by either (a) old netboot image or (b) broken mirror. If that's right, we should recommend (a) make sure your netboot image is current (b) if it is, then try another mirror, recommending deb.debian.org. Also, this should be an error message, not a question. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
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