On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 01:59:18PM +0100, Matthias Koch-Schirrmeister wrote: > Am Dienstag, 2. Januar 2007 09:56 schrieb Sven Luther: > > Last post here except one, due to my self-imposed ban asked by Fabio's > > mediation attempt. > > Let's hope this will be sorted out in a way that's acceptable to all parties > involved.
Little luck there. > > Normally the installer should have done prep-install, and not nobootloader, > > so i am wondering what happened here, > > After booting the image from tftp, the system goes straight into that mode > without giving me any options, except for language, keyboard layout and > manual or guided partitioning. you somehow don't get prep-installer, please fill a bug report. > > can you provide the /proc/cpuinfo of your machine ? > > Here we go: > > processor : 0 > cpu : 604r > clock : ??? > revision : 49.2 (pvr 0009 3102) > bogomips : 299.9 > machine : PReP Utah (Powerstack II Pro4000) > l2cache : 512 KiB, parity disabled, synchronous, pipelined, no > parity > > > > When you do the installation, can you go to console 2, and check with > > parted /dev/sda that you have indeed a prep partition. > > I do not have /dev/sd* devices, they are named no, you should have /dev/sda, what version of the installer are you using ? > /dev/scsi/bus0/<long path>/part1, then part2 and so on. this sounds like the older sarge installer images, not latest etch. > When partitioning manually, I declared the first partition "PReP", bootable, > no mountpoint, and the partitioner confirmed that. Seems to be OK. > > 2nd partition is swap, 3rd is /. yeah, i guessed such, but i wanted to be sure. > > Then before rebooting, you go to console 2 again, and you check that the > > vmlinuz kernel has indeed been created > > It's located at /boot/vmlinux . Should it be under root? no, you need the mkvmlinuz produced vmlinuz-2.6.18-3-prep. It should indeed be in /boot. > > dd if=/target/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-3-prep of=/dev/sda1 > > Done, seemed to work (no weird ouputs at least). > > Still, > > boot /pci/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0:1 (:1 being the PReP boot > partition) > > does not work. > > boot /pci/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0 or > boot /pci/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0:3 > > do not work, either. boot disk should do, and i think devalias will tell you about it. It should autoboot. > > Please consider filing a bug report against d-i about the fact that > > prep-installer is not being run on your box, including the /proc/cpuinfo > > output. > > Is there a chance that this will be fixed? I did not follow the development, > but this platform seems to be discontinued. Well, given the d-i situation, i don't know, but i have such a box, and will provide patches if a bug report is opened, and a forked alternative d-i build if the d-i guys don't get their act together, but things where going rather well before christmas, so ... Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
