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  • a home-made install CDROM with QLOGIC firmware [was : Re: Updated insta

    From jhcha54008@21:1/5 to All on Fri Nov 29 20:00:01 2019
    Hi,

    I wonder if the (untested) simple recipe below would work.
    It would confirm that the missing QLOGIC firmware
    was indeed the culprit.

    I hope it will help !

    Regards,
    JH Chatenet

    # download firmware-qlogic
    apt-get download firmware-qlogic

    # become root (to preserve rights)
    su -

    # install genisoimage (if not already)
    apt-get install genisoimage

    # mount the CD image
    mkdir my-mount-point && mount -o ro,loop debian-10.0-alpha-NETINST-1.iso my-mount-point

    # extract the initramfs
    mkdir my_workdir1 && cd my_workdir1
    zcat ../my-mount-point/boot/initrd.gz | cpio -idv

    # add some firmwares
    dpkg --fsys-tarfile ../firmware-qlogic_20190717-2_all.deb \
    | tar -xvf - ./lib/firmware/qlogic/1040.bin \
    ./lib/firmware/qlogic/1280.bin \
    ./lib/firmware/qlogic/12160.bin

    # rebuild the initramfs
    find . | sort | cpio --create -H newc | gzip -v9 > ../initrd.gz
    cd ..

    # rebuild the cdrom image

    mkdir my_workdir2
    (cd my-mount-point && tar -cf - .) | (cd my_workdir2 && tar -xvf -)
    umount my-mount-point
    rm my_workdir2/boot/initrd.gz
    cp -a initrd.gz my_workdir2/boot/
    genisoimage -o debian-10.0-alpha-NETINST-1-fw.iso -r -J -joliet-long \
    -cache-inodes -l -alpha-boot boot/bootlx \
    -V 'Debian 10.0 alpha w fw' my_workdir2

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