Re: loading the initrd
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 03:47:58PM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 10:14:03PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> > This is something of a shot in the dark, but try using a filesystem that
> > is not cramfs. I vaguely remember some problems along these lines being
> > due to cramfs, maybe its use is not supported on a second floppy.
>
> <sigh> Luser error. I was using the generic kernel-image package,
> which compiles floppy support as a module. That has been corrected.
>
> At this point, the installer system will boot and run on my AlphaServer
> 4100. I still have to manually load the modules for my NIC, and need to
> include the SCSI modules in the initrd.
>
> One problem I've noticed that may be a bug is that when I tell the
> installer to "Detect hard drives and load modules for them", it only
> detects the NCR SCSI controller, which only controls my CD-ROM drive. I
> have to manually load the qlogicisp module to be able to access my hard
> drives.
>
> Also, when trying to partition the hard disks, I get:
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/di-utils-partitioner.postinst 51: /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target4/lun0/disc: Permission denied
>
> This just happened, so I haven't had time to investigate it. I'm going
> to do that now, but if this is a known issue I'd be happy to hear about
> it.
You need to fix the partitioner udeb to define FDISK for your platform.
Script does
$FDISK /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target4/lun0/disc
buf FDISK is null.
Richard
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