clone 248213 -1 reassign -1 partman-auto retitle -1 needs recipe for alpha/aboot thanks
* Sam Powers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-05-09 14:08]: > Install base system: [E] > First, I tried partitioning my disk with ext3 on all partitions, and it > turns out that aboot doesn't like anything but ext2. This impacted the > base system installation only once I created a 16mb /boot ext2 > partition, which, it turns out, is about 1mb too small for the > kernel-image package to create its initrd, and about 5mb too small for > comfort. After I made a 64mb partition, base system installation worked > just fine. It's just a shame that space that packages use in their > postinst can't be predicted pre-installation, or it might have been easy > to return a non-confusing error message. > > Install boot loader: [E] > Since I'm pretty new to Alpha hardware, I didn't know > that I needed to leave several blocks at the beginning of the disk for > aboot, I just sort of assumed that the blocks would be reserved, as they > are on x86. This caused the "Install Boot Loader" step to fail, because > swriteboot refused to overwrite the beginning of my boot partition. This means that partman-auto needs a recipe for alpha to create these partitions. Also, aboot-installer should have better finish.d checks (vorlon added some, but I'm not sure if they check all of the above). > I had a problem after rebooting for 2 reasons.. The default aboot > configuration referenced vmlinuz and initrd.img instead of their full > names. No symlinks were created to allow this to work. The other problem > was that ramdisk_size wasn't big enough, as vorlon said in his install > report. vorlon, has this been fixed? Sam, can you give the image at http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/ a go and tell us how well that works. We're currently preparing for a new release (rc1) and it would be good to have a successful report on alpha. (vorlon is away from his Alpha because he's at DebConf). -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
