On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 09:35:14PM +0200, Herbert Kaminski wrote: > On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 12:57:02 +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > >On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 10:51:30PM +0200, Herbert Kaminski wrote: > >> Package: installation-reports > >> 1. booting from CD still needs 'linux root=/dev/rd/0 rw' > >> at the SILO prompt > >These options should now be present in the latest version of silo.conf in svn. > > The 'rw' seems to be essential. The silo.conf on the current > (2004-APR-27) netinst ISO has 'root=/dev/rd/0' but no 'rw', > and it does _not_ boot out of the box (just hitting ENTER at > the SILO prompt) but needs the extra argument. If I omit the > 'root...' line, the last 4 lines say: > VFS: mounted root(ext2 file system). > Mounted devfs on /dev > Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 00:00 > Press L1-A to return to the boot prom > > If I enter 'linux rw', the installer starts fine. Sorry, I look at the wrong silo.conf. The silo.conf in debian-cd should be updated. Manty, can you have a look at this. > > >> 5. partitioner did not start. > > Actually, I do not need a partitioner, as the disk is already > partitioned from an old RH 5.x install. Older isos/netboot > allowed me to bypass partman, make ext2 fs manually and get > them mounted and the base system installed. This is no longer > possible, so I am lost here, as partman needs more memory. > > Don't get me wrong: I do not intend to actually install sarge > on this box, so I do not want the old isos back. I just can't > test DI any more on this box beyond this point. Unfortunately (in this case) the old partitconf udeb is no longer available for sparc. You can always go the hacky way by manually mounting your partitions and then editing /var/lib/dpkg/status to mark partman as installed. Gaudenz
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