So if you get that shiny new Dell desktop and ACPI spit bunch of message at the install time and the network driver does not get detected you can follow these steps to have it working.
- Continue the install without the network until you reboot to grub.
- Add hpet=disable at the end of the boot kernel parameter and get into the system.
- Download the latest kernel for your architecture on :
http://kernel-archive.buildserver.net/debian-kernel/pool/main/l/linux-2.6/
- Transfer it on a USB key and dpkg -i it.
- Make sure you add the hpet=disable at the kopt option of /boot/grub/menu.lst and launch a update-grub.
- On reboot you should now have the network you can do the standard tasksel to install a Desktop etc….
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Why have you to run update-grub? That’s sounds old good Lilo requirement to me
yeah you need to mate, to add the option to the kernel
It’s don’t work for me? Anothers solutions?
That works! But I confirm that there’s no need to run update-grub.
Tested with kernel 2.6.30:
http://kernel-archive.buildserver.net/debian-kernel/pool/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-image-2.6.30-trunk-686_2.6.30-1~experimental.1~snapshot.13813_i386.deb
I have a dell r610 server and my etch or lenny fai doesn’t support the gigabit cards in that. What do you suggest for an fai build? as it needs networking for an fai install.
hey brendan! you can always rebuild the fai kernel i think i have made some doco in the wiki before i left, or it just a matter to take the old kernel config
Hi
I did download http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64_2.6.30-6_amd64.deb
and then dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64_2.6.30-6_amd64.deb
since the repository you gave us seems to be dead.
I added
kopt=hpet=disable
to /boot/grub/menu.lst
however, it does not work
any other hint?
Thank you very much
Diego