On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 10:03:25PM -0800, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Sven> Well, we don't care, since the daily built are on > Sven> people.debian.org (gluck). > > I learned that too late to help, but now I know! > > >> The machine is running from my previous hacked install, but I > >> really want to try out the new installer. I'll certainly submit > >> an installation report when I'm done. > > Sven> Ok, please do it. > > It seems that the d-i daily build uses the latest d-i kernel from sid, > but the kernel that it actually installs is from sarge! So my system > fails at the reboot stage since the new kernel is not on the d-i > image!!! Sort of took the grins off my face :-) > > I worked around this by apt-getting the kernel from sid before the > reboot step, and then it all went pretty good (except for LVM, see > below). > > I'll do the installation report when the new kernel makes it into the > d-i build. No point in reporting a difficult install for a problem I > know will be fixed shortly. > > Also, I could not get the LVM stuff to work with the menu interface. I > need to get that figured out, but that is a different thread and/or > bug report (seems to be like #260763).
This is a known problem, basically, it is because the mac partition table stuff does lack a LVM flag for partitions. I fixed this on amiga partition tables, adding a LVM flag, but i believe i should maybe have used a 'LVM\0' dostype instead. Not sure, parted is not particularly smart about dostypes. I discussed this with Colin Watson some time back, and he was not hot on doing a quick fix, but said that this is something that needs to be decided by the lvm tools folk too. I believe that on ppc these tools don't check the partition type, so it is only a matter of forcing d-i. Friendly, Sven Luther
