Richard Hirst wrote: > The problem is that initrd-tools is not included on the netinst ISO. > The kernel doesn't depend on it, so that is correct. Unfortunately > on ia64 we have do_initrd=yes so kernel-installer wants to install > initrd-tools. Not a problem with the businesscard ISO because it just > pulls initrd-tools from the net.
I belive that I have checked in a fix to debian-cd's tools/generate_di+k_list to fix this. Manty will need to cvs up that file in his build tree. > d-i manages to install a kernel then, but elilo-installer causes (at > least) one of my scsi disks to run down, and report 'Not Ready'. > > I have two disks, sda (8/0) and sdb (8/16). The errors are on sdb, > which I'm not installing to. elilo runs > > parted /dev/discs/discN/disc print | sed .... > > when translating /dev/discs/ paths in to /dev/scsi/ paths. > > Earlier in the install (partitioning disks) I was able to use parted to > print the partition table ok. > > I havn't seen this problem with the businesscard ISOs, but the most > recent I tested so far was 20040108. The ia64 udebs on the netinst CD you used have not been updated since then, so I don't know about this. -- see shy jo
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