On 6/10/19 2:11 AM, Finn Thain wrote: >> I tried twice using the stock CD-ROM drive and once using a more modern >> CD-ROM drive. In all three cases, installation of the basic system >> succeeded after about four hours, then stopped at the "Configure the >> package manager" menu -- "Your installation CD or DVD has been scanned >> ... Scan another CD or DVD?". > > Maybe you need to use a different initrd? There are several on the ISO.
No, there is only one initrd used for cdrom installation. The others are for netboot, i.e. booting kernel and initrd from a TFTP server. The netboot initrds don't contain any CD-ROM drivers and won't work for CD-ROM installations. > I'm no expert with the debian installer, but I suspect you should be using > the initrd for the netinst method (?) There is no "netinst" initrd. There are initrds for "cdrom" and "netboot". NETINST is a normal CD-ROM installation image. It just comes with less packages than the full CD-ROM sets which provide all packages on the installation media. NETINST and netboot are two completely distinct things and not to be confused. >> Maybe that kernel only works for installation using the accompanying >> initrd? > > No, the debian kernel works for other purposes too, but you would need to > generate a suitable initrd if you want to use it for other purposes. Correct. The initrd for installed systems is always generated: # update-initramfs -k $(uname -r) -c -v >> I next tried booting using a serial console (console=ttyS0,9600n8). >> After the expected slowness of systemd bringing everything up (about >> eight minutes), > > Right, systemd is hopeless on these machines. Not just because the CPU is > slow, but because systemd sets short timeouts on it's own units which > those units can't live up to. That means that systemd enforces policy that > excludes slow hardware. I haven't seen any particular slowness issues except for the login delay with systemd on elgar. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
