INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: http://people.debian.org/~tfheen/d-i/images/2003-03-08/archive/ uname -a: Linux (none) 2.4.19-386 #1 Mon Nov 18 21:50:03 EST 2002 i686 unknown Date: 2003/03/09 Method: Network installation. Boot from floppy, with packages got via HTTP from the ftp.fr.debian.org mirror. Machine: Brand-less assembly machine Processor: AMD Athlon XP 1800+ Memory: 256 Mb DDR Root Device: IDE, /dev/hda2 or /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 Root Size/partition table: ...part2 4 Gb / ...part3 0.5 Gb /var ...part5 33 Gb /home ...part6 0.3 Gb swap Output of lspci:
Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked: [O] Configure network HW: [O] Config network: [O] Detect CD: [ ] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [O] Create file systems: [O] Mount partitions: [O] Install base system: [O] Install boot loader: [E] Reboot: [E] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: The install went fine (thought swap creation couldn't be done, since there's no mkswap on the / filesystem, but anyway), but when it came to install the kernel (or later, the boot loader, or reboot the machine), I found out that 'mkinitrd' was unable to find the root device. After fiddling a bit with the script, I finally found that the /target/etc/fstab was empty, hence preventing mkinitrd for guessing the root device, hence preventing kernel-installer postinst script to finish, and then preventing the kernel-package (and the boot loader) to be installed. I could find any way to fix that right now, since I haven't found yet which script is supposed to create the target fstab.
