Craig Sanders wrote:
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 08:58:43PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
I'm beginning to think i'm going to have to re-learn the PITA procedure to make a custom kernel/initrd for d-i so i can boot with a 3.0.x or 3.2.x kernel.
or i could do a quick-and-dirty hack to update the d-i initrd with newer kernel modules (and firmware), like so:
Obviously too late this time, but it sounds like you weren't aware of the daily builds, which are 3.2 already: root@alpha:/srv/tftp/debian# file -s *.kernel daily-amd64.kernel: Linux kernel x86 boot executable bzImage, version 3.2.0-1-amd64 (unknown@Debian) , RO-rootFS, swap_dev 0x2, Normal VGA daily-i386.kernel: Linux kernel x86 boot executable bzImage, version 2.6.37-2-486 (unknown@Debian) #, RO-rootFS, swap_dev 0x2, Normal VGA stable-amd64.kernel: Linux kernel x86 boot executable bzImage, version 2.6.32-5-amd64 (unknown@Debian), RO-rootFS, swap_dev 0x2, Normal VGA stable-i386.kernel: Linux kernel x86 boot executable bzImage, version 2.6.32-5-486 (unknown@Debian) #, RO-rootFS, swap_dev 0x2, Normal VGA testing-amd64.kernel: Linux kernel x86 boot executable bzImage, version 2.6.32-5-amd64 (unknown@Debian), RO-rootFS, swap_dev 0x2, Normal VGA testing-i386.kernel: Linux kernel x86 boot executable bzImage, version 2.6.32-5-486 (unknown@Debian) #, RO-rootFS, swap_dev 0x2, Normal VGA unstable-amd64.kernel: Linux kernel x86 boot executable bzImage, version 2.6.32-5-amd64 (unknown@Debian), RO-rootFS, swap_dev 0x2, Normal VGA unstable-i386.kernel: Linux kernel x86 boot executable bzImage, version 2.6.32-5-486 (unknown@Debian) #, RO-rootFS, swap_dev 0x2, Normal VGA Hmm, scratch that, it would seem only the x86-64 one is. URLs: http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/daily/netboot/debian-installer/amd64/{linux,initrd.gz} http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/netboot/debian-installer/i386/{linux,initrd.gz}