Bug#242659: d-i errors on alpha
Package: installation-reports
Severity: Normal
an-installer-version: sarge-alpha-netinst.iso daily build from 5. April
uname -a: (don't remember exactly but was 2.4.24)
Date: 07. April 2004
Method: boot from scsi cdrom, target root partition on scsi hard-disc
Machine: alpha rawhide
Processor: 4
Memory: ~ 800 Mb
Root Device: SCSI Maverick hard disc
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked: [0]
Configure network HW: [0]
Config network: [0]
Detect CD: [E] 1)
Load installer modules: [0]
Detect hard drives: [0]
Partition hard drives: [0]
Create file systems: [0]
Mount partitions: [0]
Install base system: [E] 2)
Install boot loader: [E] 3)
Reboot: [ ]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't
try it
Comments/Problems:
1) the cd from whom aboot booted the debian system was not recognised:
cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00
Vendor: DEC Model: RRD47 (C) DEC Rev: 1206
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
mount /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target5/lun0/cd /cdrom
2) base system install aborted with following message on console 3:
trying to overwrite /etc/default/devpts which is also in packages
initscripts .. errors where encountered while processing .*libc6
also tried beta3, but this aborted even earlier in base-install
with no error message while trying to install libgcrypt
did a reinstall on clean partition and aboves error appeared again.
manually installed all packages witch dpkg inside a chroot
3) at this stage i strongly missed a menu-entry for aboot at d-i!!
from within the chroot one can't do much
so i tried a recommendation from an srm howto
(-> http://www.sgmltools.org/HOWTO/SRM-HOWTO/t182.html)
did an # swriteboot /dev/sda bootlx vmlinux.gz
(well different pathes .. but you got it)
it asked for an -fi in order to overwrite the first empty
partition, which was given.
I eventually forgot to setup an /etc/aboot.conf
the installation ended somehow miserably with a working
debian install (had already an sshd inside) but without
the possibility too boot inside this root partition :(
i tried many possible root flags from within srm,
but the kernel always failed to find the root partition
(also tried boot root partition from cd).
regards maks
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