Re: 43p-140 install issues
On Tuesday 11 January 2005 16:05, Philippe Guyot wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 January 2005 15:34, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 03:06:35PM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 11 January 2005 13:19, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > > > the install goes on rather nicely, I stopped just before
> > > > > repartitionning the scsi disk. (do not want to kill my running
> > > > > woody just now ! I am not sure of consequences of pci problem).
> > > >
> > > > Did d-i find your scsi controller ?
> > >
> > > Yes, partman sees the partitions already on the scsi disk.
> > >
> > > > And your network card ?
> > >
> > > Yes, it was able to download stuff for install.
> >
> > Cool, that means that we can probably ignore those messages for now. I
> > wonder about the root=/dev/ram option though.
> >
> > > >If so, it may
> > > > not be so problematic the errors above.
> > > >
> > > > > Because of workaround 2, I can't do the job with my graphic card
> > > > > (Matrox) unless I find something like console=vga.....
> > > >
> > > > console=tty0
> > >
> > > I tried with console=/dev/console but there was nothing but the penguin
> > > image on the screen. I will try again with tty0.....
> >
> > You could even try :
> >
> > console=ttyS0,9600 console=tty0
> >
> > Which makes both consoles active, and the last one being the really used
> > one. It will echo the console stuff to the serial port though.
>
> Yep.
>
> But strange things happen:
>
> "chose country or region failed"
>
> going back to main menu, I can choose the default (english) but then I loop
> on choosing the country "france"
>
> install jumps over the keyboard layout configuration
> selecting it later from the main menu launches partman
>
> on screen display sometimes corrupted
>
> There's something else wrong somewhere.
Well, I put a new scsi disk on the machine and tried to go at end of install.
Partman made a prep partition, but because of disk size (9GB) I was not able
to size it < 1% so it is 8.2 MB, more than the "magic" limit of 8 MB for the
PReP partition.......entering 6.0 MB for instance leads to 8.2 MB again.
Installer warned me that there was no stuff for booting.
So I suppose I have to dd /boot/vmlinux to /dev/sda1 but after having patched
it with "preptools" from Leigh to make it aware of root=/dev/sda3. Is that
always true ?
Friendly
Felipe
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