On Monday 16 February 2026 at 23:14:32, Haines Brown via Dng wrote:

> No one has answered my question: why do I need to have regulataory.db
> and iwlwifi firmware installed in order to boot when on Ethernet?

I believe that the answer is "you don't".

You don't even need regulatory.db to run a wireless interface - its purpose is
merely to prevent your machine from using frequency bands which are not legal
for such use in the country you tell your computer it is located in

As for whether the firmware is necessary, that depends on the wireless
hardware; some will "work" without the firmward, but maybe not very well, or
with restricted features (compared to installing the firmware). Other hardware
simply won't do anything (and might not even be recognised as being installed)
without the firmware being loaded.

However, if you don't want to use the wireless networkig hardware, you don't
need the firmware for it.


I have to admit to having become significantly confused about what the real
problem is here. Have you confirmed, for example, that including the wireless
firmware during the installation process results in a bootable machine, but not
doing so results in a non-bootable machine?

I really got lost in the discussion of all your disk partitions, especially
when it turned out that you appeared to be confusing the disk in the machine
you were installing onto with the disk containing the installation media you
were installing from, and also when you revealed that in some postings you had
been talking about the disks from two completely different computers.

I also asked whether, despite encountering problems installing Daedalus, you
were able to sucessfully install and boot Chimaera on the same hardware. I
think this could give additional clues about where the problem lies.


What are the last few lines of text displayed on your monitor when you boot
your freshly-installed Daedalus system and it fails to complete the boot
process?


Antony.

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