Re: Re: Installer fails on initrd-tools
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 12:52 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Dan C wrote:
> > + rootpart_devfs=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1156681320
> It seems that base-installer finds the root partition by the rather
> broken method of doing a "df /target". I assume that you have a large
> root partition, of more than 100 gb in size, and probably the df
> output does not add whitespace between the partition name and the size
> in this case. Can you show the output of the df /target command to
> verify this?
That's it. I don't know why I didn't catch this myself and (properly)
report the error, but df /target returns:
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1157076776 36284 149061412
0% /target
with the -h flag
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 149.8G 44.9M 142.1G 0% /target
Considering "One large / partition" is what d-i advises for new users,
and that's the option I picked to generate the above partition sizes,
this looks like a rather critical issue :)
Thanks for your response and assistance!
-Dan C
Further, it looks like shrevie@ntnation.com ( "Help! Debian-Installer
Dies with various umount errors" ) may be experiencing the same issue --
of particular interest is the "clean install, letting the installer use
the entire disk."
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