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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