Bug#232413: Kernel install fails on cciss drive hardware
Package: install
Severity: grave
Justification: renders system unusable
Attempting to install unstable using netboot images from:
http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/netboot/
Everything works fine (notwithstanding partitioning problems) until the
base system is being installed. Apparantly mkinitrd has trouble with
the cciss drive controller and /dev filesystem, and fails, subsequently
failing to install the kernel. Have pasted ascii 'screenshots' and log
information below.
thanks,
Erik
The installer reports the following:
+-------------------+ [!!] Install the base system +-------------------+
| Unable to install the selected kernel |
| An error was returned while trying to install the kernel into the |
| target system. |
| |
| Kernel package: 'kernel-image-2.4-386'. |
| |
| Check /var/log/messages or see virtual console 3 for the details. |
| |
| <Continue> |
| |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
Checking /var/log/messages, I find the following:
/usr/sbin/mkinitrd: constituent device /dev/cciss/disc0/part1 does not exist
Failed to create initrd image.
dpkg: error processing kernel-image-2.4.24-1-386 (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of kernel-image-2.4-386:
kernel-image-2.4-386 depends on kernel-image-2.4.24-1-386; however:
Package kernel-image-2.4.24-1-386 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing kernel-image-2.4-386 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
kernel-image-2.4.24-1-386
kernel-image-2.4-386
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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