debian-installer: fail at kernel install step

[Stephane Enten <tuf@mmania.com>]

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.


	Stéphane