Bug#247668: sarge-netinst-LVM bug
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: both beta4 and 20040504-22:10
uname -a: no shell, no kernel installed
Date: 4 May - 6 May 2004
Method: Booted from a CD created from iso images
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/beta4/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/i386/20040504/
Machine: hush ATX (cf. http://www.hushtechnologies.com)
Processor: P4 2.8 GHz
Memory: 1 Gb
Root Device: 160 Gb Seagate Barracuda IDE ATA, hda
Root Size/partition table: see below in comments
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: [O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [E]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Reboot: [ ]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
It seems LVM is still thouroughly broken - impossible to install base system
on LVM from sarge-netinstall-beta4.iso and up to 2004-05-04 iso image.
Both 2.4.25 and 2.6.3 kernels fail to install.
Disk is formatted as follows: /boot primary 64 Mb, then LVM physical volume
of 160 Gb with one volume group vghda1 and logical volumes lvroot, lvusr,
lvusrlocal, lvtmp, lvvar, lvhome, lvopt with corresponding file systems.
I have tried both ext3 and xfs and both fail on kernel install.
Transcripts of the error screens:
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[!!] Install the base system
Unable to install the selected kernel
An error was returned while trying to install the kernel into the
target system.
Kernel package: 'kernel-image-2.4.25-1-386'.
Check /var/log/messages or see virtual console 3 for the details.
<Go Back> <Continue>
----------------------------------------
[!!] Install the base system
Installation step failed
An installation step failed. You can try to run the failing item
again from the menu, or skip it and choose something else. The
failing step is: Install the base system
<Continue>
----------------------------------------
Error log from console 3:
Setting up kernel-image-2.6.3-1-386 (2.6.3-2) ...
/usr/sbin/mkinitrd: constituent device /dev/vghda1/lvroot does not exist
Failed to create inird image.
dpkg: error processing kernel-iamge-2.6.3-1-386 (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9
Errors were encountered while processing:
kernel-image-2.6.3-1-386
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
These errors are reproductible on a Hush (P4 2.8 GHz, 1 Gb RAM, 160 ATA IDE HD)
and on an older Dell (P3 300 MHz, 256 Mb RAM, 18 Gb SCSI HD).
The only solution found so far is partitioning the disk the old way, no LVM.
Best regards, --Roman Kanala, roman.kanala (at) cueh.unige.ch
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