debian-installer Installation report (with bug report)
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: http://people.debian.org/~tfheen/d-i/images/2003-03-08/archive/
uname -a: Linux (none) 2.4.19-386 #1 Mon Nov 18 21:50:03 EST 2002 i686 unknown
Date: 2003/03/09
Method: Network installation. Boot from floppy, with packages got via HTTP from
the ftp.fr.debian.org mirror.
Machine: Brand-less assembly machine
Processor: AMD Athlon XP 1800+
Memory: 256 Mb DDR
Root Device: IDE, /dev/hda2 or /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2
Root Size/partition table:
...part2 4 Gb /
...part3 0.5 Gb /var
...part5 33 Gb /home
...part6 0.3 Gb swap
Output of lspci:
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD: [ ]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Create file systems: [O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Install boot loader: [E]
Reboot: [E]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
The install went fine (thought swap creation couldn't be done, since
there's no mkswap on the / filesystem, but anyway), but when it came to
install the kernel (or later, the boot loader, or reboot the machine),
I found out that 'mkinitrd' was unable to find the root device.
After fiddling a bit with the script, I finally found that the
/target/etc/fstab was empty, hence preventing mkinitrd for guessing the
root device, hence preventing kernel-installer postinst script to
finish, and then preventing the kernel-package (and the boot loader) to
be installed.
I could find any way to fix that right now, since I haven't found yet
which script is supposed to create the target fstab.
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