Bug#270550: Using d-i as rescue disk.
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 09:00:17PM +0200, siward wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 September 2004 17:43, Colin Watson wrote:
> > The standard procedure is to run the installer up
> > to the point where it starts the partitioner (by which point it still
> > hasn't written anything to the disks), then switch to tty2, mount your
> > root filesystem on /target, and chroot.
>
> that is nice to hear,
> but please note that i never got further than
> installer showing these 2 lines about loading kernel and initrd.
I don't know that bug, I'm afraid. It'll probably be a kernel problem,
at a guess ...
> Installer failing suggests that d-i is calling a bios routine there.
> I expect that this also would need to be fixed,
> i hope this is not hard,
> maybe code is in woody's bootfloppies allready.
d-i is a total and complete rewrite; code from boot-floppies is rarely
at all applicable.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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