Re: install bug; after swap-init fail, errmsg about flpy
#include <hallo.h>
* JD [Sun, Dec 22 2002, 11:34:23PM]:
> Hello INSTALLER-coding Debianians
>
> debian-boot@lists.debian.org
> if this belongs better in debian-testing, please advise
> please edit this as the shoe may fit
It's okay here.
> -- INSTALL BUG -- Severity=nuisance --
>
> CD1-Install of 3.0r1 glitched on a pc with
> - no floppy drive and FDC=off in CMOS-Setup
> - swap happened to be a logical volume inside an extnded part'n, and
> - that swap happened to "need" initialization
Of course it did.
> It kacked just as it was trying to initialize the swap partition, and
> heaved up a hairball.. "failed" with the "Rescue Floppy".
What do you mean? What was the error messages?
> A stronger hand would have been able to Alt_F2 and phony-up an
> imaginary /mnt/floppy or something to satisfy this step. Not me.
Dunno what you mean. Just created the same szenario and the installation
worked fine.
> Fortunately, as it was, it could go back to the stage of offering to
"Back"? You are not forced to go the steps in some order by our
installer.
> --40gB hda PARTITIONING--
> 1=primary[ 5.67g, fat32, win..DOH!s ]
> 2=primary[ 5.67g, LnxExt2, Deb30r1 ]
> 3=primary[ 5.67g, 0xEB, BeOS ]
> 4=EXTENDED[
> __LOGICAL1-{ 256mB, Type82_linuxSwap }
> __LOGICAL2-{ 24gigs, this week it's been FAT32 }
> ]
Sure that your kernel got that partition table correctly? Did you reboot
as told by cfdisk?
> I am mulling over spinning that install again onto another hack hard
> disk, with an LS-120 in the mix, and see what happens, at the risk of
> maybe learning something.
You should be able to install from it with the next generation of
boot-floppies, see http://people.debian.org/~blade/bf3024/. Just specify
root=/dev/hdX for your LS120 drive.
> SUGGESTION: Might be cool at that place in the install to offer to
> "write" that floppy stuff as a FLOPPY-IMAGE (rawrite-variety), in lieu
> of (or in addition to) dealing with an actual, lowly FDD and accursed
> floppy. 1.44mB or 2.88mB shouldn't be too "hard to hold" in the
> ramdisk 'til the filesystem's ready. Having such a (system-specific?)
> floppy-image sitting around might be handy if you can't boot into a
> higher run-level.
That is on you to find a boot loader that could work with images.
[...stupid attacks against floppy media deleted... ]
Gruss/Regards,
Eduard.
--
The feature you'd like to have is probably already installed on your
Linux system.
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