Bug#361180: Debian installer doesn't install kernel
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 08:42:02PM -0400, Jack Carroll wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 08:21:52AM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote:
> >
> > What is the reason for using 'expert'?
>
> I've been doing it that way for so long, it's reflex now. I want to
> make sure it doesn't try to do something like partitioning my hard disk
> without asking how I want it partitioned. That would be really upsetting.
the default boot (that is another one then 'expert' ) _does_ ask
about partitioning ....
<snip/>
> > Here I miss /dev/hda1
> > Any idea where that partition went?
>
>
> That's the / partition for Sarge. That's the known good distro,
> which I want to keep working, while testing other distros on the other two
> sets of partitions. I have the drive partitioned to boot 3 operating
> systems, with a common /usr/local partition and a common /data partition.
> (I got away from a common /home partition, because different distros
> sometimes need different files in their home directories. So now I give
> each user a directory in /data, and point to it with a symbolic link in ~,
> in each /home.)
You will encounter "different distros, different files in /home"
also at /usr/local
I recommend Xen[1] for testing different distro's on the same hardware
with a "known good distro"
>
> >
> >
> > Mmm, interresting.
> > The rare case of upgrading a Debian system by a re-install.
> > (the usual way to get from Debian Sarge to Debian Etch is
> > editting /etc/apt/sources.list and then
> > apt-get update
> > apt-get dist-upgrade
> > )
>
> It didn't occur to me to try exactly that. I still could. What I
> did was edit etc/apt/sources.list to include both Sarge and Etch, set Sarge
> as the default branch, and installed a 2.6.15 kernel to do some testing. I
> hit what appeared to be a bug when loading modules, and wanted to test a
> pure Etch distro to see if it was still present. Not wanting to take time
> to download and burn a CD, I downloaded the Etch RC2 installer floppies
> instead, and found they didn't work. So I figured I'd try the daily build
> floppies before reporting a bug. And that's where we are now.
> I've tested the floppies, and found a solid bug. The major question
> is whether it's because the daily build floppies don't include a boot.img,
> and are incompatible with the RC2 boot floppy, and therefore I should stop
> testing the floppies until one appears.
I have no clue what you are trying to tell.
Please rephrase your original challenge.
And send it to the mailinglist debian-boot@lists.debian.org
The ML debian-boot@lists.debian.org is where development
of debian-installer is discussed. It is the place where I
saw this bugreport.
> > Anyway, we still have the Sarge system to invest this situation.
>
>
> I'm re-installing that now, to get it back to a pristine state after
> monkeying with a bunch of config files.
> I think what I'll do after that's running is take your suggestion to
> do a dist-upgrade to Etch in /dev/hda2, and get back to what I was
> originally trying to test, which was installing multiple Ethernet driver
> modules on the 2.6.15 kernel. I still have the third set of partitions, to
> test the floppies on when I have a known valid set of floppies for testing.
This bugreport caught my attention for it's original subject,
Debian installer doesn't install kernel
Installing (multiple) Ethernet drivers is worth a new E-mail thread.
> Why apt-get, by the way? I understood that was deprecated a couple
> of years ago in favor of aptitude, because of the way RECOMMENDS and
> SUGGESTS dependencies are handled.
You are right, I should switch to aptitude myself.
The reason that I didn't switch yet, is that I didn't
take time to find how to change the default behaviour of aptitude
for installing Recommend packages without asking.
> > Please provide the output of
> >
> > fdisk -l /dev/hda
>
> I'll get you that in the next message, after the install finishes.
Does that mean that when we see the partition table,
you have a finished install?
Cheers
Geert Stappers
[1] http://www.xensource.com/
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