On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 04:51:44PM +0000, Richard Hirst wrote: > > The crdom-image.img seems to have a more sane cmdline, but I still had > > to use palo to edit it to add "root=/dev/ram devfs=mount,dall" before it > > would get anywhere. I had to remove TERM=linux as well, because palo > > locked up if I included all those params. palo has a history of locking > > up when you edit the cmdline, unfortunately. > > Anyway, after that, it booted and mounted the initrd, and then looped > > complaining that it couldn't find various kernel modules, and reporting > > 'segmentation fault'. > > This was on a B180, STI console. > The SEGV is in "frontend", looks like a null pointer deref. I switched > to text frontend, fixed d-i to actually make a lifimage for netboot (I > guess you created yours manually?), and tried again. I havn't submitted > my change yet. > Getting further now, currently running debootstrap, installing unstable. > Couldn't partition disks because there is no [c]fdisk udeb installed. > parted won't work for hppa because we need to create a partition of type > 'F0' and parted can't do that. I skipped that step and used my > existing partitions. IIRC this is a problem with fdisk-udeb priority. > It gets pulled in on i386 anyway because lilo-installer wants it (at > least, that is what I recall), but doesn't get pulled in for hppa. I > think the easy answer is to include it in the pkg-lists for hppa. For alpha I have fdisk-udeb listed in alpha_(netinst|businesscard)_udeb_include in debian-cd, since it isn't really needed in the initrd itself. For netbooting, I guess it does need to be in the pkg-lists to ensure it's pulled in; mips and mipsel do this. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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