RE: Woody is bootable? (was: Sarge is bootalbe?)
Nick,
I had a similar install problem on my SMP Pentium 3 Xeon system with SCSI
disks. I resolved the problem by booting from the "vanilla" CD. Once the
system was booted, I installed from the "generic" CD. I don't recall the
logic or steps that led to that solution but it worked.
On a different note, it took 18 hours to link the kernel once the system was
installed. Response times were incredibly slow. I installed atsar and
about 40% of the processor was being used with the system idle. Once the new
kernel was installed with SMP enabled, I could build a kernel in a couple of
minutes and idle processor usage dropped to nil. I'm curious if you saw the
same phenomenon on your MP system.
Thanks
Rick
-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Bailey [mailto:n.j.bailey@elec.gla.ac.uk]
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 4:14 AM
To: debian-testing@lists.debian.org
Cc: debian-testing@lists.debian.org
Subject: Woody is bootable? (was: Sarge is bootalbe?)
Colin,
I completely agree with everything you wrote.
However, the last time I tried to install from a woody boot CDRom, I
couldn't. It wouldn't mount SCSI disks so you couldn't get anywhere
unless / was on an IDE device. Perhaps there is/was a way around this,
but I failed to find it. Since our default machines here are dual-AMD
with SCSI disks running Sid, I had to install Potato and dist-upgrade
with all the pain which has been reported by others.
Since I am (a) a big debian fan, (b) not aversed to a bit of hacking
(much better than marking reports!) and (c) don't have any
enterprise-critical machines to look after, I didn't think much of it.
But perhaps SCSI support à la Sid being absent on Woody might turn off a
few new potential converts who do not have mass-market machines.
Sorry, I should have brought this up before (while Woody was still
testing), but better late than never.
Nick/
Colin Watson wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 01:00:37PM +0200, Claudio wrote:
>
>
>>I downloaded Sarge but i can't install booting from CD and i can't install
>>it upgrading on Potato.
>>It says:
>>"Internal Error, couldn't configure a pre-depend".
>>Plese help me, because i don't know i must to do.
>>
>>
>
>Please read the answers already given to you multiple times!
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot-0209/msg00241.html
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot-0209/msg00242.html
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-testing-0209/msg00014.html
>
>Do not try to install sarge directly yet, as it won't work. Upgrade from
>potato to woody, following the instructions in the release notes at
>http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/. Then consider upgrading to
>sarge.
>
>If you have problems upgrading to woody, please post the full text of
>the error messages you get. Please don't just post the same message yet
>again.
>
>Regards,
>
>
>
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