Bug#490287: No root file system

[Geert Stappers <stappers@stappers.nl>]

Op 11-07-2008 om 12:55 schreef Frans Pop:
> 
> Suggest you start by commenting out the settings for:
> - partman/choose_partition
> - partman/confirm
> 
> That will allow you to see what the actual configuration that was created 
> looks like. Please find out *what* is wrong and *why*.

The file example-preseed.txt from Alioth specifies SCSI or SATA disk,
but the installed system has an IDE disk.


--- a/manual/example-preseed.txt
+++ b/manual/example-preseed.txt
@@ -81,13 +81,10 @@ d-i clock-setup/ntp boolean true
 #d-i partman-auto/init_automatically_partition \
 #      select Guided - use the largest continuous free space
 
-# Alternatively, you can specify a disk to partition. The device name must
-# be given in traditional non-devfs format.
+# Specify a disk to partition.
+# Required when there are more disks then just one.
 # For example, to use the first SCSI/SATA hard disk:
-d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda
-# Note: If you want to use whatever disk is available, no matter
-# what its device name, comment the line above out. This will only work if
-# the system only has one disk.
+#d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda
 # In addition, you'll need to specify the method to use.
 # The presently available methods are: "regular", "lvm" and "crypto"
 d-i partman-auto/method string lvm


That patch got me past the 'No root file system' error.


Cheers
Geert Stappers