Bug#270550: Using d-i as rescue disk.

[siward <siward.via@freeler.nl>]

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 never got to see any installer screen.
I did not try to get a shell then,
  i expect that would not have been possible.
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.

have fun,

  Siward