Re: 43p-140 install issues
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 05:32:37PM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 January 2005 16:05, Philippe Guyot wrote:
> > On Tuesday 11 January 2005 15:34, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 03:06:35PM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 11 January 2005 13:19, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > > > > the install goes on rather nicely, I stopped just before
> > > > > > repartitionning the scsi disk. (do not want to kill my running
> > > > > > woody just now ! I am not sure of consequences of pci problem).
> > > > >
> > > > > Did d-i find your scsi controller ?
> > > >
> > > > Yes, partman sees the partitions already on the scsi disk.
> > > >
> > > > > And your network card ?
> > > >
> > > > Yes, it was able to download stuff for install.
> > >
> > > Cool, that means that we can probably ignore those messages for now. I
> > > wonder about the root=/dev/ram option though.
> > >
> > > > >If so, it may
> > > > > not be so problematic the errors above.
> > > > >
> > > > > > Because of workaround 2, I can't do the job with my graphic card
> > > > > > (Matrox) unless I find something like console=vga.....
> > > > >
> > > > > console=tty0
> > > >
> > > > I tried with console=/dev/console but there was nothing but the penguin
> > > > image on the screen. I will try again with tty0.....
> > >
> > > You could even try :
> > >
> > > console=ttyS0,9600 console=tty0
> > >
> > > Which makes both consoles active, and the last one being the really used
> > > one. It will echo the console stuff to the serial port though.
> >
> > Yep.
> >
> > But strange things happen:
> >
> > "chose country or region failed"
> >
> > going back to main menu, I can choose the default (english) but then I loop
> > on choosing the country "france"
> >
> > install jumps over the keyboard layout configuration
> > selecting it later from the main menu launches partman
This seems to be a common problem in the recent countrychooser upload, it will
probably be fixed soon.
> > on screen display sometimes corrupted
> >
> > There's something else wrong somewhere.
>
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> Well, I put a new scsi disk on the machine and tried to go at end of install.
>
> Partman made a prep partition, but because of disk size (9GB) I was not able
> to size it < 1% so it is 8.2 MB, more than the "magic" limit of 8 MB for the
> PReP partition.......entering 6.0 MB for instance leads to 8.2 MB again.
Ah, interesting, i will speak with Cajus about this.
> Installer warned me that there was no stuff for booting.
>
> So I suppose I have to dd /boot/vmlinux to /dev/sda1 but after having patched
Yes, but d-i uses the devfs path, so it would be /dev/scsi/... See the
/proc/partitions content for a list of it. I have a burtal prep-installer who
does this, I didn't yet check the partman-prep stuff, since strangely it
doesn't work for me.
> it with "preptools" from Leigh to make it aware of root=/dev/sda3. Is that
> always true ?
Well, the default kernel is set to /dev/sda3 already. Problem is that it seems
the preptools need a kernel patch which we don't have, i have to investigate
this. But as long as you chose the / partition to be partition 3, it should be
ok.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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