Eric Bus wrote: > I'm currently experimenting with the Sarge floppydisk installation. We > are in the process of replacing our Redhat servers with Debian, because > of good experiences in the past. > > The new installer is a great improvement, but I'm experiencing some > problems. Some of them are already reported as bugs, but there is one > problem I can't quite place. > > Everything goes fine, until the installer asks to install LILO as the > bootloader. It prompts with > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc. This looks ok, so I press enter. > I get a black screen and after a few seconds the screen shows: > > insmod: init_module: vesafb: No such device or address > modprobe: failed to load module: vesafb > modprobe: failed to load module: vga16fb > modprobe: failed to load module: usb-uhci > modprobe: failed to load module: usbkbd > modprobe: failed to load module: keybdev > modprobe: failed to load module: usbserial > > After this I return to the same screen in the LILO configuration. I get > the same device-line and the only option is to continue. But after > entering, I receive the same error. The only was to exit the loop is to > reboot the machine, because there is no <back> option. > > It seems like LILO isn't succesfully installed, because rebooting the > machine prompts with the usual boot error (no bootdisk etc.). > > Any ideas on what this could be? Looks rather like main-menu or cdebconf is crashing at this point during your install. -- see shy jo
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