Re: debian installer, uml, kernel 2.6
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 05:49:57PM +0100, newsnews@swissonline.ch wrote:
> newsnews@swissonline.ch wrote:
> >i tried to install debian sarge rc2 into an uml system. the host is
> >running a kernel 2.6.8-10 with applied skas patch from
> >http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade/patches/skas3-2.6/host-skas3-2.6.7-v7.patch
> >(should be ok for 2.6.8 too, debian provied only patches till 2.6.7). the
> >uml kernel is from
> >http://packages.debianbase.de/sarge/i386/uml-exp/user-mode-linux_2.6.8-1um-1.tha9.deb.
> >for the installer i used initrd 2.6 from a debian rc2 cd set.
> >
> >the install process stop when its time to install the
> >kernel-image-2.6.8-5. the output of /var/log/message tell that setting
> >up kernel-image-2.6.8-5 has failed: /usr/sbin/mkinitrd: device
> >/dev/ubd/disc4/disc (wich is a logical volume on host) is not a block
> >device. i found a closed bug report (#257373: Support for UML ubd
> >devices), but a grep on /target/usr/sbin/mkinitrd return the line "echo
> >ubd". Can anybody tell me how to install debian into an uml system with
> >debian installer? Would it help to use fake_ide, fakehd as uml boot
> >parameters or anything else?
>
>
> even with the "expert26" option i can't omit the installation of the
> kernel. if it possible to omit the kernel installation in an other way?
> Should the installer not allow to install without a kernel, wich make
> sense for an uml system or better for me?
Not installing the kernel is not currently supported. You could hack a
base-installer so that it don't installs a kernel though.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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