On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Alain wrote:
I'm trying to make my own Debian CD with preseeded choices and some
extra packages.
I picked a debian_40r1_i386_kde_CD_1 ISO file and hacked it to use a
preseed file and added those extra packages I want tu use.
Everything seems to work right, but after reboot, Grub doesn't find any
kernel. And the /boot directory only contains a grub sub directory. No
initrd nor vmlinuz file !
This is not really a debian-cd issue. Please file an installation report [1]
instead and make sure to include the hardware-summary and the syslog for
the installation.
Note that we are very likely to ask you to reproduce the issue using the
official (non-hacked) KDE CD while doing a normal (non-preseeded)
installation. If the issue cannot be reproduced that way, the problem is
clearly in your modifications.
Your best first step would therefore probably be to just carefully compare
yourself the syslog for a manual installation using the official KDE CD
with the syslog from your hacked and preseeded CD. That should give you
some indication of what has gone wrong.
Cheers,
FJP
[1] http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch05s03.html#submit-bug