Re: Bug#235044: No installable kernel found w/20040226 sarge bus. card daily
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 10:25:20AM -0500, Barry Hawkins wrote:
> On Mar 3, 2004, at 10:11 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
>
> >On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 10:00:57AM -0500, Barry Hawkins wrote:
> >>
> >>On Mar 3, 2004, at 2:41 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 04:01:09PM -0500, Barry Hawkins wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>On Feb 27, 2004, at 12:14 AM, Barry Hawkins wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>Package: installation-reports
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Debian-installer-version:
> >>>>>http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/daily/
> >>>>>powerpc/20040226/sarge-powerpc-businesscard.iso
> >>>>>uname -a: N/A, install fails
> >>>>>Date: 02/26/2004, 23:30 EST
> >>>>>Method: Booted to CD-ROM by holding down C after chime, using
> >>>>>debian.mirrors.pair.com
> >>>>>
> >>[...]
> >>>>>Comments/Problems:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Toward the end of the install, past 70%, the following message
> >>>>>appears:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> No installable kernel found
> >>>>>No installable kernel was found in the defined APT sources.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>The current default kernel package is 'kernel-image'.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>You may try to continue though this strange error is probably
> >>>>>fatal.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>The debug console shows the following:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Setting up tasksel (1.44) ...
> >>>>>chroot: cannot execute apt-get: No such file or directory
> >>>>>
> >>>>Is there some reason that this and other powerpc installation
> >>>>reports
> >>>>are not being followed up on?
> >>>
> >>>Because the ones who care about powerpc are busy right now ? I think
> >>>it
> >>>is exam time for some of them, or they are busy with other stuff. I
> >>>myself don't have a pmac, so there is not much i can do, and i think
> >>>gaudenz has gone to work on discovery mostly. Don't know about the
> >>>others.
> >>>
> >>>Maybe this is the right time for you (or others) to step in and have
> >>>a
> >>>go at fixing this problem, if we want to have good powerpc support by
> >>>march 15.
> >>>
> >>>Anyway, i have no idea about the keyboard problem you reported, but
> >>>this kernel issue, it should not be problematic. Does choosing
> >>>unstable
> >>>instead of testing make a change here ?
> >>>
> >>>Friendly,
> >>>
> >>>Sven Luther
> >>>
> >>[...]
> >>
> >>Sven,
> >> Thanks for the info; I didn't realize there were so few powerpc
> >> folks! Well, I guess there's no time like the present to learn C. I
> >>have
> >>seen posts that Alioth has moved to using Subversion; any pointers on
> >>what I need to get started? I will begin with getting Subversion 1.0
> >>set up on my Mac.
> >
> >Well, debian-installer is mostly very basic shell scripts and common
> >sense stuff, no need to learn C for it.
> >
> >Also, for subversion, the active repository is still in CVS, altough
> >that may change in the future.
> >
> >In order to fix this problem, you could start by :
> >
> > 1) trying out the unstable install instead of the sarge one, and see
> > if the problem is still there.
> > 2) look at the exact error on console 3, if there is one, and on the
> > messages on console 4.
> > 3) go to console 2 and run archdetect on it, then test the
> > base-installer postinst to see which kernel should have been
> > installed.
> > 4) once you know that, make sure this kernel exists. Also, check with
> > apt-cache search kernel-image which kernels are available from your
> > mirror.
> >
> >Friendly,
> >
> >Sven Luther
> >
> >
> Sven,
> Alright, I will get busy on these items tonight. One question:
>
> What is the authoritative URL for the powerpc unstable install?
Not sure. I mostly build them myself. You can go to :
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
And then follow the link to the port status page at :
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ports-status
Which gives you the URL, but i think there are two set of URLs for the
actual images, but maybe this has been fixed already.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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