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rmrichesjr

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Registered: 2018-12-18

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Which Excalibur install problems fixed by 6.1.1?

After doing a test VM from 6.1.0 starting a couple of months ago using the 'server' ISO, I tried to install Excalibur on the main physical machine and hit a few problems:

- The installer did not activate the link for the Ethernet interface, so mirror, clock, etc. did not work while installing.

- Installation of GRUB failed.  Daedalus had a similar problem, but using chroot to create a grub config file and manually copying that config file into the Chimera installation's /boot/grub worked.  For Excalibur, even with "mount --bind ..." for /dev, /proc, and /sys, grub-mkconfig still shows 3 errors "md124 not found" (where /dev/md124 is intended to be Excalibur's /boot partition).

- There's also a less significant issue for physical machines with two optical drives that if the CD is in the second drive, the beginning of the 'install base system' step errors out with "Failed to determine the codename for the release."

Is it documented which (if any) of the above is fixed between 6.1.0 and 6.1.1?

Meanwhile, I'll try to re-install from the 6.1.1 server ISO and then use chroot from the 6.1.1 Live CD if GRUB installation still fails.

rbit

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Registered: 2018-06-12

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Re: Which Excalibur install problems fixed by 6.1.1?

For the installer ISOs, 6.1.0 -> 6.1.1 changes are listed here: https://git.devuan.org/devuan/installer … a1ca9fb841
Perhaps someone else with a raid setup can assist you with /dev/md124 problem.
I hadn't tested a 2-optical drive system with the installer in the 2nd drive, and was unaware of the issue.

rmrichesjr

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Registered: 2018-12-18

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Re: Which Excalibur install problems fixed by 6.1.1?

Thanks for the link.  It doesn't look like the larger issues I encountered are covered, but then the installer problem I encountered with 6.0.0 and fixed in 6.1.0 doesn't appear to match the descriptions there.

stargate-sg1-cheyenne-mtn

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Registered: 2023-11-27

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Re: Which Excalibur install problems fixed by 6.1.1?

may or may-not help but still good information on raid at:

https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=7213

and also perhaps:

https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=7015

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rolfie

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Registered: 2017-11-25

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Re: Which Excalibur install problems fixed by 6.1.1?

- The installer did not activate the link for the Ethernet interface, so mirror, clock, etc. did not work while installing.

I would claim this is not an installer issue. If the network does not work its most likely an issue related to user input.

rmrichesjr

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Registered: 2018-12-18

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Re: Which Excalibur install problems fixed by 6.1.1?

I would claim this is not an installer issue. If the network does not work its most likely an issue related to user input.

I have notes from my installations of Beowulf, Chimaera, and Daedalus.  There was no difference in user input from those to Excalibur.  I suspected the installer might have not loaded the necessary kernel module to access the NIC, but then the installer did give me the choice of the two NICs on the motherboard.

rolfie

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Registered: 2017-11-25

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Re: Which Excalibur install problems fixed by 6.1.1?

I can't recall any network failure during installations that was not due to operator error, i.e. mistyping IP numbers or similar. Anyhow, two nics is an unusual setup and maybe this has led to problems? I have only dealt with one nic on many installations.

AFAIK there is no way to skip modules for known nics, unlike this topic that you may only get ext2 and no ext3/4 when jumping over the "load extra modules" in expert mode.