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dev-1-dash-1

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Registered: 2018-08-02

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[ANSWERED] ASCII hd-media installer can't load kernel modules from DVD

The ASCII hd-media installer is unable to load kernel modules from installation cd/dvd due to
kernel version mismatch

How to reproduce:

Download ASCII hd-media installer from here (both text and gtk versions behave the same)
https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/dis … /hd-media/

Download an ASCII installation cd or dvd (again, both seem to behave the same) and place the iso
to a root of an ext3/4 partition.

Add hd-media installer to grub config

Boot the hd-media installer

Installer searches the hdd for images, successfully detects cd/dvd.

Than complains about being unable to load kernel modules because the ones on cd/dvd image are built
for a different kernel version.

Output of 'uname -a' of hd-media installer.
Linux (none) 4.9.0-7-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.110-1 (2018-07-05) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Output of 'uname -a' when booting from the dvd burned to a real dvd:
linux devuan 4.9.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.82-1+deb9u3 (2018-03-02) x86_64 GNU/Linux

So it seems the hd-media installer has a newer kernel and is unable to load modules built for a slightly older kernel
on the cd/dvd/

This leads to, for example, being unable to load network card drivers during install.

When booting from the dvd burned to a real disc, the installation proceeds without problems, (i.e. I am 100% sure that
the actual drivers for my network card are there on the dvd and they work on my system.)

Last edited by dev-1-dash-1 (2018-12-01 14:28:43)

KatolaZ

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Registered: 2017-03-11

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Re: [ANSWERED] ASCII hd-media installer can't load kernel modules from DVD

Hi dev-1-dash-1,

thanks for your report. Yes, we know. We have rebuilt d-i to keep it updated with the kernel version available in the repo (and I will built it again over the week-end), but we have not updated the other install images. The reason nobody has complained so far is that normally the d-i images are used for net-installs, rather than with one of the other images, while DVD/CD ISOs will upgrade the kernel anyway at install time (if the network is available). We might have a point-release at some point, which would put in sync the two, but consider that we are currently releasing 40+ images only for ASCII, and upgrading all of them every month or so would be quite demanding. In the meanwhile, you should be able to use the previous version of d-i available at:

https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/dis … n1/images/

The only difference between that one and the "current" should indeed be the kernel version.

HTH

KatolaZ

dev-1-dash-1

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Registered: 2018-08-02

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Re: [ANSWERED] ASCII hd-media installer can't load kernel modules from DVD

Hi KatolaZ,

Thanks for the reply.

should be able to use the previous version

Ok, I got that.

Last edited by dev-1-dash-1 (2018-12-13 22:17:01)

dev-1-dash-1

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Registered: 2018-08-02

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Re: [ANSWERED] ASCII hd-media installer can't load kernel modules from DVD

The version of hd-media installer located at

https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/dis … n1/images/

confirmed to work with the current official ascii install cd as of the time of this writing.

Ozi

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2017-03-15

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Re: [ANSWERED] ASCII hd-media installer can't load kernel modules from DVD

Has the debian-installer-launcher also been rebuilt? It has a kernel version mismatch as well.

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