Trying to preseed, almost there but got hangup

Hi I'm trying to preseed a debian installation in qemu. I got very far but while preseeding the last commands the installer seems to hang, and I get no output. Are there some suggestions on how I can debug or get diagnostics? I put syslog to /dev/console by modifying the initrd. (is the initrd cr

Re: installation manual for USB stick is outdated

Hi Lennart Did you actually manage to go through the installation process? In my case it boots fine also. Pedro. On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 05:18:40PM +0200, Pedro Larroy wrote: >> I just did cat .iso > /dev/sde >>

Re: installation manual for USB stick is outdated

h a different one? I observed that the scsi disk is not detected even after modprobing usb-storage inside the debian installer shell. Pedro. On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Pedro Larroy wrote: > I just did cat .iso > /dev/sde > > I used: > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.1a/a

installation manual for USB stick is outdated

Hi I'm trying to follow: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.html.en But I suspect the manual is outdated since the installer gets stuck on the "Detect and mount CD-ROM" which is not detected. This should be working or the manual changed? Pedro. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: kernel panic on startup

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Jeremiah Foster wrote: > > On Apr 27, 2011, at 11:57, Pedro Larroy wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I'm getting a kernel panic with the testing cd images. What can I do >> to help? Please include me in the cc since I'm not on the

kernel panic on startup

Hi I'm getting a kernel panic with the testing cd images. What can I do to help? Please include me in the cc since I'm not on the mail list. Pedro. -- Pedro Larroy Tovar   |    http://pedro.larroy.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Image file too large for low memory

tr@omega:~/prg/diskless$ The commandline I use is: mknbi-linux -x -a "auto rw nfsroot=kernel nfsaddrs=kernel root=/dev/nfs ip=zembla::dhcp" -k bzImage -o zembla-II && ./imggen -a zembla-II /home/piotr/omega/zembla Hope it helps. Regards. -- O ___

Developer wants to help in debian-boot

working as soon as possible. Regards. -- O _ O | /-| Pedro Larroy Tovar. PiotR | http://omega.resa.es/piotr |-\ | | /--|No MS-Office attachments please. |--\ | o-|--| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Creating NFS boot floppy?

2.168.0.15; filename "zembla"; option domain-name-servers 192.168.0.1; option broadcast-address 192.168.0.255; option routers 192.168.0.1; option root-path "/var/diskless/%s"; } Regards. -- ... ______