Bug#279979: debian-installer: on reboot, get segfault and error pivot_root: no such file or directory

[Shri Shrikumar <shri@kraya.co.uk>]

On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 15:16 +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> You will have to provide more information for us to be able to help you 
> with this.
> Please fill out a full installation report (see [1]) and send it to 
> 279979@bugs.debian.org.
> Especially indicate what filesystems you selected for mountpoints, if you 
> used LVM and/or RAID and how you installed the bootloader.

Thanks,

Debian-installer-version: pre-rc2 on Nov 6th 2004
uname -a: <The result of running uname -a on a shell prompt>
Date: Nov 6th approx 12:30pm GMT
Method: Booted network install from CD. Network install from uk mirror

Machine: Customer i386 arch machine
Processor: Intel P4 2.4Ghz
Memory: 1Gb
Root Device: SCSI?  /dev/hdb
Root Size/partition table: /dev/hdb2 mounted as / and /dev/hdb5 or hd6 as swap
Output of lspci and lspci -n:

Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot worked:    [O]
Configure network HW:   [O]
Config network:         [O]
Detect CD:              [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives:     [O]
Partition hard drives:  [O]
Create file systems:    [O]
Mount partitions:       [O]
Install base system:    [O]
Install boot loader:    [O]
Reboot:                 [E]

Comments/Problems:

I repartitioned the hard drive and selected UK/British English. Apart
from that everything else was automatic.

Please note that I was able to resolve the issue by booting into the
installation using KNOPPIX and upgrading the kernel image to
kernel-image-2.4.27-1-686-smp. 

This leads me to suspect a problem with the kernel image deb, possibly
the initrd image since it seems to fail at the point of booting the
kernel after the initrd part.

Hope the above info is useful. Please get in touch if you require more
info.

Shri

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