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Bug#361180: Debian installer doesn't install kernel



On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 12:19:30AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> It would also be nice if you used a mail address that does not have 
> ridiculous blocking when I send from my normal address:
> 
> Your message cannot be delivered to the following recipients:
> 
>   Recipient address: mykrowatt@comcast.net
>   Reason: Server rejected MAIL FROM address.
>   Diagnostic code: smtp;550-195.121.247.6 blocked by 
> ldap:ou=rblmx,dc=comcast,dc=net B
>   Remote system: dns;gateway-s.comcast.net (TCP|195.121.247.6|41321|
> 204.127.202.26|25) (sccrmxc22.comcast.net - Maillennium ESMTP/MULTIBOX 
> sccrmxc22 #662)

	This doesn't make any sense to me.  I'll see if I can get an answer
from Comcast as to why it's doing this.

> 
> On Saturday 08 April 2006 00:03, Jack Carroll wrote:
> > 	During kernel download, ls /target/boot shows
> > System.map-2.6.15-1-686
> > config-2.6.15-1-686
> > initrd.img-2.6.15-1-686.new
> > vmlinuz-2.6.15-1-686
> 
> Good so far. I'm assuming that you are looking while the initrd is being 
> generated and that it still has to be renamed.
> 
> > 	At the end of kernel download, all those files have been
> > automatically deleted.
> 
> Huh? Are you very sure about that? I know of _nothing_ in the installer 
> that would delete files in /target/boot and I have never seen a similar 
> error.

	I'm sure.  It's been confirmed two ways now.


> Is /target/boot a separate file system?

	No.  It's part of /dev/hda2.


 If it is, is it still mounted when 
> you check?


	/dev/hda2 is still mounted on /target.  No other mounts have
changed, either.

> 
> There must be some kind of mounting and unmounting going on here to 
> explain this.

	Unmounting wouldn't delete files, though.

> 
> > /target/var/cache/apt/archives lists the 
> > linux-image-2.6-686 package under a couple of names.
> 
> Not really relevant.
> 
> > 	Clearly something is wrong.  Is it worthwhile to run more tests, or
> > is it invalid because the current daily builds don't include a boot.img
> > of their own?
> 
> What does boot.img have to do with this? Whether or not the boot floppy 
> image builds is completely irrelevant to CD based installs.


	I am not doing a CD based install.  I'm booting from floppies and
installing from the network.  The boot floppy set is what I'm testing.



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