On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 02:54:11PM +0200, Andreas Sindermann wrote: > a) For some reason the grub package is not installed and the > installation log files (esp. software.log) is not very informative > why. Effect is that the system is left in an unbootable state at the > grub> prompt. > > b) When entering the needed information (kernel to be used etc) by > hand at this prompt the system is booting but for whatever reasons in > a very bad state. It seems that the /dev directory contains only very > few devices like /dev/sg and things like that. Especially /dev/sd* are > missing where the system has been installed on.
I had a similar problem. In my case fai wasn't able to update the deb packages during the installation. First my $FAINFSROOT/etc/apt/sources.list wasn't pointing to the correct location and during my second try the "host-to-be-installed" had no access to the mirror (wrong IP configuration; in my case). HTH Andreas -- ! Andreas Jobs Network Operating Center ! ! Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum ! ! The only way to clean a compromised system is to flatten and rebuild. !
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