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Bug#255821: Installation bug report



Package: installation-reports
Version: Test Candidate 1
flavor:        I'm using images from http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/installer-i386/tc1/images/hd-media/2.6/
architecture:  i386 
memory:        512 mg

I tried to install Debian sarge on my hard disk from other partition on hard driver.
In the "Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide" in chapter 5.1 (http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch05s01.html) I can see description in 
"5.1.3. Booting from linux using LILO or GRUB". In the example of /etc/lilo.conf I can see this text :

image=/boot/newinstall/vmlinuz
       label=newinstall
       initrd=/boot/newinstall/initrd.gz
       root=/dev/ram
       append="devfs=mount,dall"

But when I tried to run install I see message "RAMDISK: incomplete write (-28 != 32768)". It is because ram disk size is too small 
for unpack initrd.gz. When I change kernel parameters to
       append="devfs=ramdisk_size=16384,mount,dall"
It runs good, but message "Unable to mount root fs on ram1" was displayed. When I changed line into
       root=/dev/ram0
then installer runs good.
Line 'append="devfs=mount,dall,ramdisk_size=16384"' doesn't work !

Please, change Installation Guide.

WBR, Alex.





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