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Re: debian-installer Installation report (with bug report)



sön 2003-03-09 klockan 15.36 skrev Stephane Enten:
> 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

Yes, this is a known issue.

> 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.

Empty fstab is also a known issue that we're working on... :)

> 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.

I think it went missing in the reorganization of the mkfs/mkswap/mount
tools. It'll be back.


Thank you for the report,
Martin
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