Re: Installer not reading preseed.cfg
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 3:48 PM, keshav prabhakar <kes333@hotmail.com> wrote:
> sorry, I got distracted by some other project for the past week..
>> It's "/usr/sbin/update-initramfs". Do you have "/usr" mounted?
>
> no. it's not mounted. see below.
>> What choices did you make for rescue mode?
>
> I think I chose the correct options:
>
> 1. booted off of CD drive
>
> 2. Installer boot menu - Advanced options - Rescue mode
>
> 3. select language menu
>
> 4. country menu
>
> 5. keymap menu
>
> 6. installer loads 'additional components..'
>
> 7. network configuration
>
> 8. hostname and domain name selection
>
> 9. 'setting up the clock' and timezone selection
>
> 10. Detecting disks..
>
> and I see the following dialog:
>
> [!!] Enter rescue mode
>
> The installer could not find any partitions, so you will not be able to
> mount a root file system. This may be caused by the kernel failing to detect
> your hard disk drive or failing to read the partition table, or the disk may
> be unpartitioned. If you wish you may investigate this from a shell in the
> installer environment.
>
> No partitions found.
It all looks OK except for the fact that d-i can't see your disks.
Are your disks still attached?! While at that screen, go to VT2 and
run "fdisk -l".
> Not sure if it matters but I should mention that I'm using a vmware instance
> as the target install system. So, the hard disk is a virtual disk (16 GB in
> size) and listed as a 'SCSI (0:0) Hard disk 1'.
>
>
> Without knowing much about the hard drives and partitions, I tried with two
> different ways - once by trying on the rescue mode without any previously
> installed OS on the hard disk. A second time by installing os first (of
> course, partition creation all went well and the os was installed
> successfully) and then trying to boot into rescue mode. Again, this may not
> matter at all..
>
> but in both cases, in rescue mode, it just doesn't appear to find the
> partition at all.
>
> Could it be something related to VMs or just that I could be missing
> something? Back to the issue I have had with seeding where it stopped at
> finding the 'root file system', wonder if it was not an issue with my
> preseed.cfg but something else (VM-related, installer (?)).
The wheezy and squeeze installs that I ran with your preseed file were
VMWare VMs.
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