Re: New 2.4.27-2 kernel and d-i images available for sparc - testers wanted

[Jurij Smakov <jurij@wooyd.org>]

Hi again,

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Matt Fischer wrote:

> 5) Tried various netboots, all seemed to lack the ide-generic driver, so my 
> hard drive (and cdrom) were not found.

I still don't have a clear picture. When you boot a d-i netboot image, it 
is not supposed to detect all your hardware immediately. A normal course 
of a netboot installation is: it boots a minimum system, then downloads 
installer components (included required kernel modules), runs hardware 
detection and inserts the needed modules into the kernel. Are you saying 
that you are able to boot the machine, d-i starts, you configure the 
network, download the installer components, run the hardware detection and 
it fails there? Or does it fail at some earlier point?

Best regards,

Jurij Smakov                                        jurij@wooyd.org
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