Bug#375968: etch beta2 netboot fails on VIA VT310DP
Frans Pop wrote:
> On Monday 10 July 2006 03:56, Nick Phillips wrote:
>
>> I did; the daily booted and installed (don't have the date of the
>> daily to hand at the moment) but the kernel installed during the
>> installation did not boot.
>>
>
> That can be explained because the installed kernel is currently not the
> same as that used by the installer when installing testing.
>
> You should be able to solve that by using the rescue mode of the installer
> (boot using 'rescue'). You will be asked to select the partition that has
> the root filesystem of the installed system.
> After that, the best thing to do is switch to VT2, 'chroot /target', mount
> other filesystems you need (you need at least 'mount none /sys -t sysfs',
> and of course /boot, /usr, etc. if these are separate).
> Then, download (wget) the 2.6.16 kernel image package from unstable and
> install it using 'dpkg -i <package name>'.
>
>
Yep, that's basically what I did, except for the moment I've used a
custom kernel copied over on a USB key, but I'll try the standard one
when I get a chance.
BTW it seems you actually have to mount the filesystems on /target
before you chroot, otherwise /dev in the chroot doesn't have the right
devices, which means you can't mount them. I can't remember whether I
actually did that or used dpkg with --root in the end.
>> I'll file another report when I get the install finished.
>>
>
> Not really needed, unless you have other issues you'd like to report. If
> not, just follow up to this one.
>
OK, will let you know - will probably try a reinstall fairly soon.
Cheers,
Nick
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