On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 04:01:57PM +0100, Stephane Enten wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying debian-installer with the following setup:
>
> An i386 host with IDE rootdisk, installing via network install, booting
> from floppy.
>
> I've used the daily built image from 2003/03/08, and everything went
> fine up to the kernel installation.
>
> Basically, the kernel package won't install, because the
> kernel-installer's postinst script is failing. A bit of investigation
> showed that the postinst script was running mkinitrd, which was
> complaining about not being able to find the root device:
>
> > kernel-installer: info: Setting do_initrd='yes'.
> > /usr/sbin/mkinitrd: Cannot determine root device
> > Failed to create initrd image.
> > dpkg: error processing kernel-image-2.4.20-i386 (--configure):
> > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 29
>
> I found out why: the destination fstab, located at /target/etc/fstab, is
> barely empty, there's only the /proc mount.
>
> I've not being able to fix that yet, since I don't exactly know which
> part of debiana-installer is supposed to generate the fstab.
> But the kernel being uninstalable makes the LILO/grub boot loader
> install fail, and the last step as well.
>
Feeling at home in the d.i. source code will take some time.
I hope that a line like
find . -type f -exec grep --with-filename fstab {} \;
does help.
Geert Stappers
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