Ticket #904 (closed defect: fixed)
Installer bootstrapping stuff should be at least Maverick
Reported by: | jdreed | Owned by: | jdreed |
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Priority: | high | Milestone: | Natty Beta |
Component: | -- | Keywords: | |
Cc: | Fixed in version: | ||
Upstream bug: |
Description
Currently, we still use Jaunty for the initial basic bootstrapping in PXE. This fails on the Dell 790 due to a lack of support for network cards. We should upgrade to Maverick
Change History
comment:1 Changed 13 years ago by jdreed
- Status changed from new to accepted
- Owner changed from amb to jdreed
comment:2 Changed 13 years ago by jdreed
OK, the aforementioned change is in place. I've asked network to also create a "Debathena (Testing)" entry with a Natty kernel and initrd, with a url pointed at http://18.9.60.73/installer/testing/debathena.preseed, so we can make sure it doesn't break anything.
comment:3 Changed 13 years ago by jdreed
Network says there's no more room in the PXE menu, so we don't get a testing entry. So we'll need to do some testing before we ask for a switch to the natty kernel.
comment:4 Changed 13 years ago by jdreed
OK, amb tells me this was originally not done because kexec -e would lock up hard on >= Lucid. This appears to be no longer the case. For maximum hilarity, kexec -e still locks up hard if run within a gnome-terminal in Natty, but if I switch to a VT and run it, it's fine. I'm going to test a bit more and then ask Network to drop in a natty kernel for stage 1, but keep the jaunty one somewhere for a bit in case the world explodes.
Tangentially related, I'm going to ask network to change the pxe entry to specify a url parameter of:
url=http://18.9.60.73/installer/current/debathena.preseed
Then we can manage current with symlinks. I have created the necessary symlinks such that current points to debathena-jaunty (which the installer was still using, even though it was actually installing lucid). Once the change is in place, I'll repoint current at lucid.