Bug#52073: marked as done ([documentation, i386] indicate that boot args must be 'linux <arg>...')
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From: "Darryl Röthering" <drothering@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Problem installing the Operating System Kernel and Modules
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 12:54:09 PST
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Package: boot-floppies
Version: 2.1.9 (resc1440, stable, 1999-03-03)
architecture: i486
model: IBM Thinkpad 360CE
memory: 8M
scsi: none
cd-rom: none
network card: none
pcmcia: bay in place, but no card present
disk: 540M IDE
I have tried every permutation known to man to install Debian to no avail. I
get dbootstrap to work all right -- so I must be using rawrite2 properly to
create the disk images. I get the files system initialized and mounted to /.
Then I try to actually install the Operating System Kernal and Modules from
/dev/fd0; I insert the Rescue Floppy in the drive and (occasionally) get:
"Cannot read /floppy/type.txt : Invalid argument." What I always get are the
next messages: "Mount failed; unable to mount the rescue floppy" and then
"Floppy error; The attempt to extract the Rescue Floppy failed." I have
tried re-downloading the floppy images dozens of times. I tried the
resc1440tecra.bin as well, all with the same result.
I even repartitioned the drives so as to have a FAT16 partition; I then used
a DOS recovery disk to copy files to the FAT16 partition. I then
successfully ran install.bat, which loaded up the Debian linux dbootstrap
program from the FAT hard disk. But, I get the same error when I try to load
up from floppies. And I dont seem able to copy the base disks over to the
hard drive. When I try to mount the floppy device, I get an error. If I try
to copy the disk image over under DOS, it can't see the file I created for
base14_1.bin (naturally, as it isn't a DOS compatible format). I even tried
to toggle the DOS compatibility feature of "mount" from the thin shell under
dbootstrap. But none of these permutations have met with any success.
Are there any suggestions? I can't seem to come up with another workaround.
(CD is out -- not wanting to plow money into a CD when I don't know if the
unit will work with Debian).
Really, somehow or other the floppies ought to work. They work for
everything else I have ever done, so I find it hard to believe that this is
all "buggy hardware" as the installation suggests.
Thanks again,
Darryl Rothering
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Subject: bugs closed by boot-floppies 2.2.3
From: Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com>
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These bugs were closed by boot-floppies 2.2.3, now in unstable.
--
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
boot-floppies (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
* busybox: updated to 0.40; fix logger; remove free (use lazybox free
instead, which is better)
* dbootstrap: 'expert' boot argument skips some annoying confirmation
dialog boxes; fix kbdconfig dialog being too big; fix the 'list'
archive selection method for installing kernel; more debugging and
informative messages piped to syslog; on i386, install mbr using
/sbin/install-mbr; for m68k, fix keyboards; when doing 'list' method
of disk or mounted archive location selection, just do it if we only
have one possibility
* root: add lazybox 'man' command, reminding users to install man-db pkg
* debian/copyright: remove old FSF address; add/re-organize busybox,
lowmemrd, dbootstrap copyright information (lintian)
* debian/control: standards version 3.1.1; depend on gcc, file; change
priority to extra
* debian/rules: debhelperify; binary package contains the tarball
/usr/src/boot-floppies.tar.gz, rather than the unpacked files in
/usr/src/boot-floppies/
* i18n: Hungarian, Russian, French, Portuguese updates
* powerpc: add amiga-fdisk to base and root
* close bugs from last release (closes: Bug#52073, Bug#41193, Bug#30959)
* we split root/boot now, maybe we'll do initrd or some such for woody,
but lets close this bug (closes: Bug#40160)
* README clarifications (closes: Bug#41189)
-- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 16:35:37 -0500
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