Bug#236241: UNMOUNTED ide drive on a SCSI system creates a installation (sarge installer) problem
Package: installation-reports
Version: beta2
Machine: Soyo SY-K7V Dragon Plus! motherboard
Processor:Palomino core Athlon XP 1900 AMD
Memory:512 meg
Root Device: SCSI (Adaptec 19160)
Root Size/partition table:
(unmounted) 512 meg /dev/hda1 (ide adapter compact flash drive)
/ 17 gig /dev/sda1
swap 1 gig /dev/sda2
/home 18 gig /dev/sdb1)
My cdrom is also SCSI
Output of lspci:
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Create file systems: [E]
Mount partitions: [ ]
Install base system: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Reboot: [ ]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
My system is mostly SCSI with one ide drive.
When I DON'T mount my ide drive (removable compact flash) the
installation fails when creating file systems.
I get the red screen with this
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The debootstrap program exited with an error (return value 1).
You might find more information in /target/var/log/debootstrap.log
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Heres what /target/var/log/debootstrap.log shows:
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ln: /target/usr/bin/awk: File exists
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OK, so I try the whole installation over again
and this time I mount my ide drive to /flash.
Everything works fine.
Somehow an UNMOUNTED ide drive on a SCSI system creates a problem during
installation.
FWIW changing the hardware location (i.e. primary or secondary cable) of
the ide drive does NOT help.
I also tried it with an ORDINARY IDE DISK DRIVE and got the same problem.
Otherwise GREAT JOB! on the installer.
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