Bug#233509: Problem installing kernel (unstable) from netboot, with daily build 17-Feb-2004
Package: base-installer
Version: 2004-02-17
During the install of the base system (unstable), using the daily
snapshot installer (netboot), on an IBM ThinkCentre 8191 (P4 Celeron-2G)
installation fails during the kernel install. I assume that this is
linked to the fact that the machine has been net booted.
Setting up initrd-tools (0.1.57) ...
/usr/bin/comm: /tmp/mount.pre: No such file or directory
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
The following extra packages will be installed:
kernel-image-2.4.24-1-386
Suggested packages:
kernel-doc-2.4.24 pcmcia-modules-2.4.24-1-386
The following NEW packages will be installed:
kernel-image-2.4-386 kernel-image-2.4.24-1-386
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 10.5MB of archives.
After unpacking 28.5MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ftp.uk.debian.org sarge/main kernel-image-2.4.24-1-386
2.4.24-2 [10.5MB]
Get:2 http://ftp.uk.debian.org sarge/main kernel-image-2.4-386 2.4.24-2
[6298B]
Fetched 10.5MB in 2m57s (59.4kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package kernel-image-2.4.24-1-386.
(Reading database ... 7230 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking kernel-image-2.4.24-1-386 (from
.../kernel-image-2.4.24-1-386_2.4.24-2_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package kernel-image-2.4-386.
Unpacking kernel-image-2.4-386 (from
.../kernel-image-2.4-386_2.4.24-2_i386.deb) ...
Setting up kernel-image-2.4.24-1-386 (2.4.24-2) ...
You are attempting to install a kernel version that is the same as
the version you are currently running (version 2.4.24-1-386). The modules
list is quite likely to have been changed, and the modules dependency
file /lib/modules/2.4.24-1-386/modules.dep needs to be re-built. It can
not be built correctly right now, since the module list for the
running kernel are likely to be different from the kernel installed.
I am creating a new modules.dep file, but that may not be
correct. It shall be regenerated correctly at next reboot.
I repeat: you have to reboot in order for the modules file to be
created correctly. Until you reboot, it may be impossible to load
some modules. Reboot as soon as this install is finished (Do not
reboot right now, since you may not be able to boot back up until
installation is over, but boot immediately after). I can not stress
that too much. You need to reboot soon.
Please Hit return to continue. /usr/sbin/mkinitrd: Cannot determine
root device
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)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
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