Bug#260708: Acknowledgement (PowerMac G3 (beige) sarge d-i (20 July 2004) Installation Report installing quik)
On (22/07/04 01:46), Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 12:53:42AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:
> > I repeated the install and didn't experience the display problems that
> > occurred first time around although the "Partition Free space" option
> > was still missing. This time I manually configured the partition table
> > to leave the MacOS install intact.
> >
> > The quik installation loop manifested itself once more and so I checked
> > the root directory, via tty2, which showed the /initrd directory which was
> > empty. There was no /boot directory or symlink to an initrd.img.
>
> I'd like to see any quik-installer messages in /var/log/syslog (tty4,
> but they may have scrolled off), if I could, please.
Written below:
<snip>
Jul21 23:15:02 anna [3338]:DEBUG:resolver(quik-installer):mark
<snip>
*Jul21 23:15:41 main-menu[399]:DEBUG:resolver(kernel-installer):search,
*dependancy from quik-installer
*Jul21 23:15:41 main-menu[399]:DEBUG:resolver(quik-installer):mark
*Jul21 23:15:41 main-menu[399]:DEBUG:resolver(parted-udeb):search,
*dependancy from nobootloader
*Jul21 23:15:41 main-menu[399]:DEBUG:resolver(nobootloader):mark
*Jul21 23:15:41 main-menu[399]:DEBUG:resolver(bootable-system):search,
*dependancy from prebaseconfig
<snip>
* lines repeated at 23:16:11, 23:16:15, 23:25:28, 23:34:06,
The machine is downstairs - so the above is transcribed from my notes -
apologies for any inaccuracies ;)
I don't know what this tells you but let me know if you need anything
else. It would be good to get nc working so I could paste this output.
> > So I suspect that quik partially installed but in the absence of an
> > initrd image, couldn't complete. I guess that this is addressed in
> > Bug#260333 filed against initrd-tools?
>
> I doubt it. quik-installer should be able to deal with a non-initrd
> kernel quite happily. The problem here is that something is causing
> quik-installer to exit without saying why, and I'd like to know what.
>
> Also, I suspect you were looking for the kernel and initrd in /boot
> rather than /target/boot.
Yes - I was - I see there is rather more substance to /target than /
...... a little knowledge is a dangerous thing ;)
Regards
Clive
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