On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 04:19:59PM -0300, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * W. Borgert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-05-26 17:58]: > > - installation with either beta4 or current of 2004-05-24 works, > > GRUB and/or LILO can be installed on the MBR of /dev/sda, as > > my collegue did not want to overwrite his /dev/hda-MBR > > - kernel 2.4 and 2.6 start booting, but are panicking during boot > > (I can ask, at which point exactly, if this helps) > > So the debian-installer kernel boots but then the system doesn't boot?
Well, the installer runs from the CD, while the installed kernel runs from the USB hard-disk and has to work with the initrd... I don't know, but maybe there's the problem. > That's strange since both use the Debian kernel from the archive. Did > you pass special parameters to d-i? (like "noapic" or so). No special parameters have been used. I can ask my colleague to try out some parameters. > > 1. If the installation failed at some point, one cannot do the > > "install base system" step again - it fails. Instead one has > > not only to redo the partition step again, but one has to > > remove(!) the partition and recreate them. Otherwise cruft > > Hmm, when you mark the partition as format and enter the partitioner > again, is it not formated? Yes, exactly. At least, it seems so. > > 2. It would be nice, if the installer gives a friendly warning, > > if one forgets to create a swap partition :-) > > Maybe, although I'm not sure. Many modern machines have enough RAM > that they don't really need swap. Maybe partman could warn if the > machine has less than a gig of ram or so. That would be helpful esp. for new users. Cheers, WB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]