Debian bug report logs - #1808, boring messages

Subject: Bug#1808: No boot parameters available on final boot disk
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From: Jan M|ller <fwiffo@daimi.aau.dk>
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This bug is not a package bug, but a bug in the installprocedure.

I am using debian-0.93 R6

When I start installing debian from scratch using the boot disk, i
have to write:

boot: linux ether=5,0x300,eth0

As a boot-parameter or else the system freezes when coming to the
'IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP'
part of the boot sequence

It seems that there are problems detecting my NE2000 compatible
netcard

That is not the problem that I wan't to report, cause when I type the
ether parameter it works fine. The problem appears when I have
installed the base system, and have made my second boot disk, which
will enable me to boot in the new debian system. When I boot on the
second boot disk, I can't give my ether-parameter, and thus the system
freezes again in the same spot

So in order to fix the problem I had to remove the netcard, and boot
without it, which actually worked. Or, as I really did, boot Linux
from a previous Slackware-installation on an other hard-disk, and
mount the debian base system, and copy the kernel on to my a
dos-partition, and use 'loadlin' with the ether boot-parameter.

A solution might bo to prompt for bootparameters as on the first boot
disk.


- Jan Moeller

PS: I like debian :)

Jan Moeller   fwiffo@daimi.aau.dk   http://www.daimi.aau.dk/~fwiffo
Computer Science Department, Aarhus University.
Ny Munkegade, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark. Phone: + 45 89 42 32 21
'Eat recycled food. It's goot for the environment and OK for You!'

From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
To: Jan M|ller <fwiffo@daimi.aau.dk>
Subject: Bug#1808: Acknowledgement (was: No boot parameters available on final boot disk)
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Subject: Bug#1808: No boot parameters available on final boot disk
Reply-To: Bruce Perens <bruce@Pixar.com>, debian-bugs@pixar.com
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From: Bruce Perens <bruce@Pixar.com>

I will eventually fix the root disk to use syslinux when it creates the
boot floppies. In the meantime, here's a work-around:

Look at the files in /usr/lib/syslinux (install the "syslinux" package
if you don't have them) and use them to create a boot floppy, or use LILO
(package "lilo", documentation in /usr/doc/lilo) to set the hard disk boot
parameters.

	Thanks

	Bruce


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From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
To: Bruce Perens <bruce@Pixar.com>
Subject: Bug#1808: Info received (was Bug#1808: No boot parameters available on final boot disk)
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