Bug#256354: hd inst on i386 failed
* Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> [2004-06-26 14:50]:
> Both 2.4 cases ended with the error message:
> Cannot open root device "" or 3a:04
Hmm, not sure about this one.
> The 2.6 boot ended with the error message:
> RAMDISK: incomplete write (-28 != 32768) 8388608
You probably need a ramdisk_size= parameter. You can obtain the value
with ramdisk_size=$(expr $(zcat "$1" | wc --bytes) / 1024)
$1 = the initrd file
> In all three cases there was a final kernel panic.
>
> lilo-configuration is:
> image=/boot/d-i-20040626/vmlinuz
> label=d-i
> initrd=/boot/d-i-20040626/initrd.gz
> append="devfs=mount,dall"
> optional
> I'm now going to try my luck with the netinst.iso of beta-4.
Please use the images from
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/current/
instead.
--
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com
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