Bug#445148: closed by Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> (Closing oldbug report against debian-installer #445148)
On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:13:01 -0400 (EDT), Robert Nix wrote:
>
> I just tried the current download, and can't even get past formatting the
> DASD. I get a window with the following:
>
> ┌──────────────┤ [!!] Partition disks ├──────────────┐
> │ ERROR!!! │
> │ VTOC: seeking on device failed -- vtoc_write_label │
> │ Could not write VTOC labels. │
> │ │
> │ <Go Back> <Continue> │
> │ │
> └────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
>
> The virtual machine has write access to the disk, so that's not the problem,
> and I've tried just about every combination of formatting and not
> formatting, labeling and not labeling the disks before and during the
> install that I can think of.
>
> Obviously, this works somewhere, or it wouldn't have been released in the
> first place. And I don't think we have a very unique system here, so it
> should be a fairly standard install. We run about 50 RedHat images, and
> several SuSE images, so it's not like we're novices at this.... Any ideas
> that might help, and won't take three more years to come up with?
Excuse me for butting in here gentlemen. This is not my bug report,
and I am not a member of the Debian Installer team, but I do run
the s390 port of Debian GNU/Linux in a virtual machine under z/VM;
so perhaps I can be of some service here.
Which version of the Debian installer did you try to run? Please be as
specific as possible about the URL where you downloaded it from, etc.
The last time I tried to run the production Squeeze installer for s390,
it wouldn't even boot. (In fairness, that was several months ago.)
I tried the latest "daily build" installer and it worked; so I stuck to it.
The "daily build" installation images were at one time hosted by an
external site. But all of a sudden, the server went down and never
came back up. After being down for a month, Frans Pop, the leading
Debian Installer person for s390, started doing the daily builds
himself. That was fine for a while. But he died recently, leaving very
big shoes to fill. When he died, his Debian work space disappeared
with him, and with it the "daily build" installation images.
We need to get those back.
Anyway, if you will point me to the installation images that you
used, I will give it a go here and see if I can reproduce your
problem.
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