Package: installation-reports
Severity: important
Debian-installer-version:
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/i386/current/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
19-Jan-2005 23:05
uname -a: Install failed
Date: 2004-01-19 10:30
Method: CD-ROM based install
Machine: Homebrew
Processor: Athlon 64 3000
Memory: 1 GB
Root Device: Adaptec 2100S with two Fujitsu drives
Root Size/partition table: /boot as first 128 MB, rest of space in LVM,
so / /var swap et al are on LVM LVs
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Create file systems: [O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [E]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Reboot: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
Kernel installation (2.4.27) failed because the initrd could not be
generated. dmsetup is missing.
Root is on a DM device, but dmsetup not installed
Failed to create initrd image.
Same happens with 2.6.8.
Manually installing dmsetup as /target/sbin/dmsetup before installing
the base system cures the problem. The dmsetup package must be part of
the base system to solve this permanently.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-lpc.6.k7
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
