On Mon, Feb 16, 2026 at 11:46:32PM +0100, Antony Stone wrote:
> 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".

Thanks!


> 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?

Since I am connected by Ethernet I did not ask that firmware be installed from
external media. I in case I nerver had problems installing by meaas of wifi and
did not need to bring in firmware to do it.

Sorry to have led to confusion. I means only the partitions on the target disk.
Now I remove all partitions on the SDD I'm not installing to and all partitions
on the targeted disk. Ah then do non-exprert installation to single partition
and accept all defaults except that I not install a DE of Xfce.

recect for the installatiion

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

After it loads the kernal and the initrm (if I recall correctly}, it hangs with
these lines:

/dev/nvme0n1p2: clean ... 
INIT: version 3.06 booing 
INIT: No inittab.d directory found 
Using makefile-style concurrent boot in runlevel S     
Starting hot-plug events dispatcher: udevd. 
Synthesizing the initial hotplug events (subsystems)...done 
Synthesizing the initial hotplug events (devices)...done Waiting 
  for /dev/ to be fully populated...[ 5.301262 ] platform 
  regulatory.0: firmware failed to load regulatory.db (-2) [ 
5.3011313 ] firmware_class: see https:/wiki/debian.org/ Firmware 
  for information about missing firmware [ 5.301394 ] platform 
  regulatory.0: firmware: failed to load regulatory.db (-2) [ 
5.316633 ] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: firmware: failed to load 
  iwl-debug -debug-yoyo.bin (-2) [ 5.316695 ] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: 
  firmware: failed to load iwl-debug -debug-yoyo.bin (-2)

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     Haines Brown