Re: O2 boot

[Giuseppe Sacco <giuseppe@eppesuigoccas.homedns.org>]

Hi Boris,

Il giorno mer, 12/03/2008 alle 19.12 +0100, boris ha scritto:
> Hi,
> 
> > This is a know problem related to the kernel image you are using. Currently there is no working image created after 18/feb/2008. Please download the 2008-02-18 image and try again.
> > 
> > The image is available here:
> > http://people.debian.org/~ths/d-i/mips/images/2008-02-18/r5k-ip32/netboot-boot.img
> 
> I also tried this but the installation failed (O2 R5000 256MB):
> 
> kernel: EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal
> kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> kernel: ioctl32(umount:5878): Unknown cmd fd(3) cmd(00004c01){t:'L';sz:0} arg(00000000) on /dev/sda1 
> 
> debootstrap: install-info(/usr/share/info/coreutils.info):
> debootstrap: Setting up makedev (2.3.1-87) ...
> debootstrap: dpkg: error processing coreutils (--configure):
> debootstrap:  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255
> 
> # chroot /target
> # dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/coreutils_5.97-5.3_mips.deb
> (Reading database ... 4919 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace coreutils 5.97-5.3 (using .../coreutils_5.97-5.3_mips.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement coreutils ...
> Setting up coreutils (5.97-5.3) ...
> install-info(/usr/share/info/coreutils.info): could not backup /usr/share/info/dir in /var/backups/infodir.bak: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> install-info(/usr/share/info/coreutils.info):
> dpkg: error processing coreutils (--install):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  coreutils
> 
> Any ideas what's going wrong?

No. But I have a few questions: is this reproducible starting the
installation from scratch and repartitioning the hard disk? Could you
repeat the install using a different file system (like xfs o ext2)?

Bye,
Giuseppe