hey steve, thanks for your response and usefull bugs pointer!
On Thu, 08 Apr 2004, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > 3) at this stage i strongly missed a menu-entry for aboot at d-i!! > > (!) I'll have to take a look at this; last I was able to test, aboot > showed up right where it was supposed to in the menu, you just can't get > it to run from the menu unless the base install has completed > successfully. 2 curious questions: * what is base install supposed to do .. beside dpkg -i the base deb? i had at this stage a working chroot with apt-get inside and could install sshd for example. * abootconf /dev/sda 2 showed some strange lseek error, (the machine is abootable .. had previously woody) swriteboot /dev/sda bootlx vmlinuz -f1 worked (modulo pathes for kernel and bootlx) at this stage i probably forgot to write a nice aboot.conf and the INSTALL file from aboot recommends to use swriteboot -c2 /dev/sda bootlx the problem now was that the kernel panicked, because it couldn't find it's root fs .. tried lots of bootargs from aboot root=/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 .. or root=/dev/sda2 in combination with the initrd=/boot/initrd.gz arg. does a devfs=no help at that point ? tried also to boot via dka d-i cdrom or a woody rescue floppy disk .. regards maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
