Installation over pppoe stopped working in 9.04-final

[NoOp]

On 05/05/2009 09:46 AM, Josef Wolf wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have asked this question over there in ubuntu-installer, but this
> list seems to be almost dead (only questions, no answers), so I come
> to ubuntu-users for help to track this problem down:
> 
> 
> Installing over a PPPoE-line (ADSL) no longer works in Jaunty-final.
> It has worked since Feisty (AFAIR) and even worked in jaunty-beta, but
> does no longer work in jaunty-final.
> 
> To initiate installation over pppoe, I add "modules=ppp-udeb" to the
> kernel command line (as described in the installation manual).  This
> has worked fine in the previous releases up to (and including)
> jaunty-beta.

Never done it, but did you add 'install modules=ppp-udeb' or just
'modules=ppp-udeb'?

https://help.ubuntu.com/9.04/installation-guide/i386/pppoe.html

> 
> When I add "priority=low" to kernel command line, the ppp menu is not
> even offered in the main menu.
> 
> The logfile (relevant snippets attached below) confirms that
> anna/choose_modules contains the ppp-udeb package.  But there is no
> indication of any failure.  Why is the ppp-udeb package not activated?
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 
> Apr 29 15:16:31 kernel: [    1.030293] PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
> [ ... ]
> Apr 29 15:16:31 kernel: [    3.221657] ppp ppp: hash matches
> [ ... ]
> Apr 29 15:16:31 frontend: --> SET anna/choose_modules ppp-udeb
> Apr 29 15:16:31 frontend: <-- 0 value set

I wonder if this might have something to do with it - again I've no
experience with ppoe/ppp-udeb:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/anna/+bug/362989
[timestamp: Fri 2009-04-17 17:55:05 +0100
message:
  drop ppp-udeb from installer to supported-installer, since it isn't
used by default and causes confusion when customising images (LP: #362989)]