Bug#230438: FWD: Install Report - Failed CD-ROM install

[Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>]

* Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> [2004-01-30 18:44]:
> (note - #1 is verbatim copied from my previous report, everything is the 
> same, i have included it here for completeness only)
> 1.  The installer first went to cfdisk.  I created the partitions (1
> ext3 (bootable), 1 swap), wrote the table, and selected finish.  Then it
> went to the next screen where I am supposed to configure/mount the
> partitions, and instead of the list of my partitions (should have been
> 2), the list has 6 or 8 entries, most consisting of just one letter,
> like this:
> N
> N
> O
> O
> P
> P
> Q
> Q
> 913 MiB

We use a completely new partitioning tool now.  Can you please get an
image from http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/ and try
if this works on your hardware?

> 2.  Everything seems to install fine excepting the kernel.  The red 
> screen comes up and says that the kernel failed.  I hit alt-f3 to see 
> what dpkg reports, and find the following:
> /usr/sbin/mkinitrd: constituant device /dev/cciss/disc0/part1 does not exist
> failed to create initrd image.

Does that work now?

* Brian Knotts <bknotts@cascadeaccess.com> [2004-02-03 13:20]:
> I was eventually able to install the base system by manually 
> mounting /dev/ida/disc0/part1 on /target, but encountered lilo/grub problems, 
> so I reverted to installing from old woody compact floppy discs. :-(

Can you try the new image as well and see if those LILO/GRUB problems
are still there?  I'm fairly sure we had some people using d-i on
hardware like yours recently.
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com