This is a huge bug. I hit it when trying to kickstart Intrepid Ibex yesterday, and I tracked it down exactly to that missing CONFIG_GETOPT_LONG. When will the initrd...
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/intrepid/main/installer-$ARCH/current/images/netboot /ubuntu-installer/$ARCH/initrd.gz ...be regenerated to include the new version of busybox ? For those waiting for it to be regenerated, here is a workaround that consists of patching a broken initrd, to make kickstart's "url --url http://xxx"; option work again (and only this option, others will remain broken): $ mkdir i && cd i $ zcat ../initrd.gz | cpio --make-dir -i $ patch -Np1 <../fix-kickseed-url-handler.patch $ find . | cpio -o -H newc | gzip -9 >../initrd.gz -marc ** Attachment added: "fix-kickseed-url-handler.patch" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19662933/fix-kickseed-url-handler.patch -- lack of CONFIG_GETOPT_LONG in busybox-udeb completely breaks Kickstart https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293586 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
