Re: Bug#227114: 20040108 fails on ia64
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 07:55:26AM +0000, Richard Hirst wrote:
> > Install boot loader: [E] - Never got there, couldn't get a kernel installed
>
> This is odd. I have the buisnesscard iso here, and it lists 8 kernels,
> not 4 as you got from the netinst iso. It lists images for itanium and
> mckinley, smp and up, for 2.4.19 and 2.4.20. I wonder if there is
> something missing from the netinst iso.
>
> The latest ISOs are now on gluck; I'm currently downloading
>
> http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/ia64/20040111/sarge-ia64-netinst.iso
>
> and will see what that does for me.
The problem is that initrd-tools is not included on the netinst ISO.
The kernel doesn't depend on it, so that is correct. Unfortunately
on ia64 we have do_initrd=yes so kernel-installer wants to install
initrd-tools. Not a problem with the businesscard ISO because it just
pulls initrd-tools from the net.
You can get round this by booting with
debian-installer/kernel/linux/initrd=false
on the kernel command line.
d-i manages to install a kernel then, but elilo-installer causes (at
least) one of my scsi disks to run down, and report 'Not Ready'.
I have two disks, sda (8/0) and sdb (8/16). The errors are on sdb,
which I'm not installing to. elilo runs
parted /dev/discs/discN/disc print | sed ....
when translating /dev/discs/ paths in to /dev/scsi/ paths.
Earlier in the install (partitioning disks) I was able to use parted to
print the partition table ok.
I havn't seen this problem with the businesscard ISOs, but the most
recent I tested so far was 20040108.
Richard
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