tor 2003-08-07 klockan 03.09 skrev Mattias Wadenstein:
> http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
> Initial boot worked: [O]
> Configure network HW: [E]
Don't tell me you booted with the 'net' option? Arrrrrgh. This means you
downloaded a 80+ MB CD and only used 1.44 MB of it. Congratulations.
I was about to say that you've used an ancient version dating back to
when we could fit the entire net install scenario on a single floppy,
but then I realized that isolinux just uses the initrds.
I CCed this to the debian-cd people. It's kinda silly to put the 'net'
initrd as boot method on the netinst CDs. Can't we at least use the
'netboot' initrd? It's meant to be used with PXE and therefore isn't as
restricted in size as 'net'. Also, it is in my opinion still useless to
have 'cdrom144' as a boot option from isolinux. If your computer can
handle isolinux it's pretty damn sure it can handle the 2.88M-intended
initrd in 'cdrom' too.
We should still put as many images and initrds on the CD as possible,
but I really don't think we need all of them to be bootable.
> After that I went on to try and get the network up. This was where
> everything failed and I aborted my installation attempt (as this was a
> netinst cd). Errors:
> "Something must have gone wrong" at "Detecting HW and loading kernel
> modules", running "modprobe -v tg3".
>
> I couldn't load the module manually either ("No such device") and dmesg
> gives the following output when I try to load the module:
> tg3.c:v1.2 (Nov 14, 2002)
> tg3: Problem fetching invariants of chip, aborting
> tg3: Problem fetching invariants of chip, aborting
But the module is there? This is strange. Have you bootstrapped the
machine in another way and tried to modprobe the module?
/Martin
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