Grant Grundler wrote: > Netboot install uses a different initrd than the regular install?
If you define "regular" as "from CD", then yes. > To do a basic install, one needs to load the drivers that control storage. > Given the size problems with the initrd, I find it hard to believe > that sym2 driver wouldn't be included. d-i initrds contain the bare minimum of software required to access a repository and retrieve the rest of d-i. > > Kernel command line: > > preseed/url=http://chicken/~joey/d-i/preseed/test-net.cfg r > > oot=/dev/ram0 ramdisk_size=8734 console=ttyS0 TERM=vt102 palo_kernel=0/linux > > Is this ramisk size big enough? > Wasn't the reccomendation to use 32MB? That's the actual ramdisk size, calculated based on the size of the initrd. > > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. > > Freeing unused kernel memory: 380k freed > > Linux Tulip driver version 1.1.13 (December 15, 2004) > > ~ # > > Can you add "tulip_debug=4" to the "modprobe tulip" command? Unfortunatly "modprobe tulip tulip_debug=4" produces nothing additional in dmesg. -- see shy jo
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