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Re: installer still not in Sarge ?



On Monday 07 Feb 2005 08:10, xerces8 wrote:
> From: Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
>
> > On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 03:37:00PM +0100, xerces8 wrote:
> > > From: Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
> > >
> > > > On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 09:48:06AM +0100, xerces8 wrote:
> > > > > Hi!
> > > > >
> > > > > I downloaded the Sarge weekly CD images on 2005-jan-25 ( label is :
> > > > > Debian GNU/Linux testing "Sarge" - Official Snapshot i386 Binary-1
> > > > > (20050122) )
> > > > >
> > > > > annd se the same hungup as in the the september version.
> > > >
> > > > What hangup?  Can you point me to a previous message?
> > >
> > > Ah, I found my old message :
> > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-testing/2004/10/msg00005.html
> > >
> > > It is short :
> > >
> > > I tried sarge weekly from 20040925 on my athlon (K-7) and it
> > > fails on first boot with last lines :
> > >
> > > pivot_root: No such file or directory
> >
> >   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > Do you still get that message with your more recent install CD?
>
> I checked and yes, I get that.
> It appears the kernel does not find my HD ( and the IDE controller,
> it is a Promise PDC 20276); hard to tell as the messages fly off the
> screen too fast. ( any idea how to view them ? )

Not SATA by any chance?
That requires initrd, so it can boot from a ramdisk and get the SATA drivers 
going
Just a thought

>
> Besides , I tried the RC2 installer CD and it works. So how integrated is
> it ?
>
> Regards,
> David

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