On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, David Cantrell wrote:
> > netbooted, then plopped the CD into a local drive 'cuz the netbooted
> > kernel didn't have lance support built in... doh) to compare against,
>
> Now those I know I enabled. Might want to grab the latest image and make
> sure, but I enabled all the network drivers in the tftp kernels...for
> obvious reasons.
Well, remember that there *was* no updated, PCI-less tftp kernel on the
ISO I last grabbed; the only updated kernels seemed to be the ones in
/boot, so I did the double back flip with a twist to make a netbootable
kernel w/initrd. It looked to me like *that* kernel had network drivers
as modules. It was easy enough to slap the CD in (b/c I'd just been
trying to boot off it ;).
> That could be it, but once SILO has loaded, the control is passed off to
> it. It reads the ISO9660 filesystem, loads and boots the kernel and
> passes it the information for the compressed ramdisk.
Yeah, that's what I'd think too. Hrmph.
> Just for shits and giggles, did you verify the md5sum of the ISO with
> the one in the CHECKSUMS.md5 file?
Well, this has happened to me with every CD I've tried to boot. The
very first I tried (install.iso and mini-install.iso from Dec 20) did
this as well; I shrugged and netbooted them and ran into the keyboard
problem. I'm fairly certain I verified their md5sums. I didn't verify
the newest (to me -- Jan 5, 1 AM EST) image I tried.
But like I said, I'll pull the latest/greatest and make sure I can
reproduce with it before making any more noise ;)
Hank
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