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[Bradley Alexander <storm@tux.org>]

I'm having a hard time building from the installer-cd image. I don't think its 
a problem with the installer itself, because I have built other boxes with 
these images. I'm hoping that someone can find something that I have missed.

My hardware is a VA Linux 2U box (the label says "2200 series"), dual 
PIII/750s, 512MB, dual 9GB WD/Compaq SCSI drives.

I have built with the following debian-installer versions: rc1, rc2, 20050213.

rc2 apparently did not load the aic7xxx driver properly, because early in the 
install, it would come up with a "no installation media found" error. With 
rc1 and 20050213, it detected and loaded the drivers fine. 

The problem I am currently having is although the base install goes great, and 
I am able to complete the install, including setting up partitions, with no 
errors. However, when it tries to do the reboot, it comes up with the 
following error:

   Booting 'Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-2-386 '

root  (hd0,1)
  Filesystem tye is ext2fs, barttion type 0x83
kernel  /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-386 root=/dev/sda2 ro
      [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0x10a624]
initrd   /boot/initrdimg-2.6.8-2-386
      [Linux-initrd @ 0x1fbaa000 0x436000 bytes]
savedefault
boot
Uncompressing Linux...

crc error

  -- System halted

Okay, here's something new...It attempted to boot this time and got 

RAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 4312 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem) readonly.
Error -3 while decompressing!
c0352495(2081)->dfafc000(4096)
/bin/sh: reloaction error: /bin/sh: symbol getpid, version GLIBC_2.0 not 
defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference
VFS: Cannot open root device "sda2" or unonown-bloc(0,0)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) 


Anyone seen this behavior before? 

TIA,
-- 
--Brad
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