Bug#399687: installation report: low memory install: grub missing
Hello,
On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 18:02:15 +0100 Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> wrote:
> Hi Holger,
>
> On Tuesday 21 November 2006 12:05, Holger Wansing wrote:
> > First: is there a problem with building d-i daily builds?
> > And also the file lsb-release says:
> > DISTRIB_RELEASE="3.1 (installer build 20061102)
>
> Not so much a problem as an omission to switch back to sid_d-i for daily
> images after RC1. Should not make a real difference though as there were
> no real changes yet since RC1.
> Fixed now; thanks for spotting this.
[...]
>
> > 3. I installed from a netinst cd and only wanted to install a
> > minimal system, so without any other package source. But it
> > seems there is no grub or lilo existing on the netinst cds.
> > From syslog:
> > "Package grub has no installation candidate
> > Package grub is not available, but is referred to by another
> > package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been
> > obsoleted, or is only available from another source
> > Calling 'apt-install grub' failed"
> >
> > Therefore it is not possible to get a working system without
> > additional package source. ???
> > If this is no error, there should be some documentation
> > changed about this.
>
> This is strange. Both grub and lilo _are_ included on netinst CDs for both
> i386 and amd64 (just checked this for current daily built netinst).
> Looks to me like apt-setup failed to add the CD as a source (and currently
> it should be added). Can't verify that from the syslog though.
>
> Can you check that lilo and grub are on the image you used?
> (find /cdrom/pool/ -name lilo_* -o -name grub_*)
Regarding to grub and lilo I have:
/cdrom/pool/main/l/lilo/lilo_22.6.1-7.1_i386.deb
/cdrom/pool/main/l/lilo-installer/lilo-installer_1.18_i386.udeb
/cdrom/pool/main/g/grub/grub_0.97-19_i386.deb
/cdrom/pool/main/g/grub-installer/grub-installer_1.19_i386.udeb
> What was the /etc/apt/sources.list immediately after the installation?
> (Or /target/etc/apt/sources.list after apt-setup is run if you want to
> check during the installation.)
#
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Beta i386 Binary-1 (20061121)]/ etch main
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main
So everything is commented out!
Maybe this is related to the wrong date of the cd, too?
Looking for a cd "... (20061121)...", but find
"... (20061102)..." ?
> You have some strange timestamp errors in your syslog. Was the hardware
> clock not set correctly?
Yes, indeed, hardware clock was wrong.
Greetings
Holger
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