On Sun 26 May 2019 at 11:18:52 -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: > This is mostly to document what I encountered, because I haven't had time > to put it in a bug. (I don't know if I will get around to it, honestly. If > someone else wants to put it in they should feel free and post a response > to the list with the bug link.) I also have a bonus warning regarding > encrypted root at the end. > > First, the premise I'm working from: > > The released netboot installer (i.e. netboot.tar.gz) downloadable via > https://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst should be capable of > installing the stable distribution, and should probably support any > options it presents. > > If there isn't agreement on that, well, don't even bother with the rest. > > Using the amd64 netboot (pxelinux.0, etc.), I had my machine PXE boot. > Everything boots and run fine until it tries to load installer components, > at which point it apparently loads udebs from the testing distribution with > kernel modules that don't match the installer kernel. At that point the > installation cannot proceed since it can't find disks without the drivers > for them (e.g. sd_mod). > > I would have thought that the udebs for the stable distribution installer > would remain (wait for it) stable. I'm a little unclear on whether there is > any segregation of udebs by distribution at all. I haven't delved into the > details of the installer, and I regret that I don't have time to do so, but > I would hope this is fixable.
Bug #749991? -- Brian.