On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 09:00:17PM +0200, siward wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 September 2004 17:43, Colin Watson wrote:
> > The standard procedure is to run the installer up
> > to the point where it starts the partitioner (by which point it still
> > hasn't written anything to the disks), then switch to tty2, mount your
> > root filesystem on /target, and chroot.
> 
> that is nice to hear,
>   but please note that i never got further than
>   installer showing these 2 lines about loading kernel and initrd.

I don't know that bug, I'm afraid. It'll probably be a kernel problem,
at a guess ...

> Installer failing suggests that d-i is calling a bios routine there.
> I expect that this also would need to be fixed,
>   i hope this is not hard,
>   maybe code is in woody's bootfloppies allready.

d-i is a total and complete rewrite; code from boot-floppies is rarely
at all applicable.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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