On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 11:23:00PM -0500, Raylynn Knight wrote: > On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 14:01, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 05:49:57PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >i tried to install debian sarge rc2 into an uml system. the host is > > > >running a kernel 2.6.8-10 with applied skas patch from > > > >http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade/patches/skas3-2.6/host-skas3-2.6.7-v7.patch > > > >(should be ok for 2.6.8 too, debian provied only patches till 2.6.7). > > > >the > > > >uml kernel is from > > > >http://packages.debianbase.de/sarge/i386/uml-exp/user-mode-linux_2.6.8-1um-1.tha9.deb. > > > > > > > >for the installer i used initrd 2.6 from a debian rc2 cd set. > > > > > > > >the install process stop when its time to install the > > > >kernel-image-2.6.8-5. the output of /var/log/message tell that setting > > > >up kernel-image-2.6.8-5 has failed: /usr/sbin/mkinitrd: device > > > >/dev/ubd/disc4/disc (wich is a logical volume on host) is not a block > > > >device. i found a closed bug report (#257373: Support for UML ubd > > > >devices), but a grep on /target/usr/sbin/mkinitrd return the line "echo > > > >ubd". Can anybody tell me how to install debian into an uml system with > > > >debian installer? Would it help to use fake_ide, fakehd as uml boot > > > >parameters or anything else? > > > > > > > > > even with the "expert26" option i can't omit the installation of the > > > kernel. if it possible to omit the kernel installation in an other way? > > > Should the installer not allow to install without a kernel, wich make > > > sense for an uml system or better for me? > > > > Not installing the kernel is not currently supported. You could hack a > > base-installer so that it don't installs a kernel though. > > > This is why the new installer is broken for many users!! I have an > unsupported architecture (Nubus PPC). I had no problem installing with
He, nice, i never heard of this actually working. > the woody installer, I just created a kernel with the ramdisk.image.gz > from the woody CD, booted and installed. I can attempt this with the > new debian installer but the install fails because it can't load a > kernel. Loading the kernel will never do me any good, because the only > way to boot a Nubus PPC box is via the MkLinux booter from a MacOs > partition. So in order to use sarge I must first install woody and then > do a dist-upgrade. Extra work just because the new installer insists on > installing a kernel. Well, you are aware that the right thing would be to fix the kernel to work for you. Are you aware of the differences between the nubus-kernel and the main kernel ? Is it totally impossible to reunite them ? Ideally, you would create a nubus patch, and then build your own kernel package (a bit like the -apus kernels are done), and then we can fix base-installer and archdetect to recognize the nubus pmacs, and install that kernel, and specialize nobootloader so that it tells the user what to do to get the kernel working. I would gladly assist you in that task, but i need your help, since you are the first one i ever knew which runs nubus hardware. What i need from you is : 1) The content of /proc/cpuinfo, in order to fix archdetect to recognize the nubus pmacs. If there is nothing about it in /proc/cpuinfo, then another way of recognizing the nubus pmacs. 2) What kernel are you using, and what configuration file. I will try to make a kernel package of it. Ideal would be to either use a 2.4.27 or 2.6.8 based kernel, but i have the suspision that the nubus pmacs only run with the mklinux kernels, right ? Well, other stuff too, i guess, but let's start with that. Obviously, the other way to work around this, is to create a dummy kernel package that you can then chose to install, but let's do the right fix first. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
