newer boot kernel?

[Jay Kusler]

The fix for me was to change debdist to sarge instead of woody.
Apparently debconf is different enough between these 2 dists that
things break with kernels beyond 2.4.20 with fai-woody.
(Thanks to Haakon for his pointers!)


Jay Kusler



> Hello,
> 
> I have successfully used fai on a handfull of machines.  Nice!  
> 
> I have some newer machines with onboard Intel Ethernet NICs (lspci
> shows 02:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 1013)
> that are apparently not supported with the e1000 driver in kernels
> 2.4.20 and below.  So to use fai with those machines, I need to upgrade
> the boot kernel to 2.4.21 or above.  I tried using config-2.4.20 as
> a starting point, and the kernel seemed to build fine.  However,
> re-making nfsroot fails with lots of module dependency errors.
> Any idea what I'm doing wrong, or any other suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jay Kusler
> 
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