Bug#361180: Debian installer doesn't install kernel

[Frans Pop <aragorn@tiscali.nl>]

reassign 361180 base-installer
retitle Selecting 2.6 kernel when installing using 2.4 will break install
thanks

On Monday 10 April 2006 21:11, Jack Carroll wrote:
> 	That revealed the place where the files get deleted.  I'll see if I
> can move the log to disk and attach it to this message.  Just copying a
> few key items from the screen on the test machine:
> 	It happens at the 93% point in the log file.  apt-install generates
> a large number of lines...

OK. This information has been in the syslog all the time. We would not 
have had to activate the debugging for this.

The root of the problem is that you are installing from floppy which uses 
the 2.4 kernel and therefore schedules the package hotplug for 
installation.

When you get to kernel installation, you choose to ignore the offered 
default 2.4 kernel and instead select a 2.6 kernel. The 2.6 kernel 
depends on udev which conflicts with hotplug which results in the kernel 
being uninstalled.

So, if you'd just accept the 2.4 kernel offered by default, the 
installation will go fine. You can upgrade to a 2.6 kernel after the 
installation finishes.

If you'd just done a default installation instead of choosing expert mode, 
none of this would have happened. However, Thanks for staying with this 
as it has laid bare something we should not allow users to do.

Cheers,
FJP

Note for BR history. A few mails exchanged for this issue were not sent to 
the bug report. They can be found in the d-boot list (9/10 april 2006).

Note for resolution.
There are two issues here:
- We should probably no longer allow selection of a 2.4 kernel when
  running 2.6 and vice versa.
- We should probably not allow apt-install to remove packages that are
  installed.