* John Roberts <[email protected]> [2016-02-28 18:33]: > I have tried to install Debian on to my QNAP TS-209II using the guided > installation but the make bootable step has failed on several attempts > despite keeping installed packages to a minimum. > I assume the flash size is too low for this to work for the current release > but this is a non evidence based guess. > > I can still login using the user installer with associated password and get > the "ash" shell. Can anyone spell out how to make it bootable when the power > switch is turned on? > On device #0 I have > #1 primary ext2 /boot. > #2 primary ext2 / > #5 logical swap
So you didn't use RAID or LVM? In that case, it should work, or at least it worked for me. You can open a shell and look at /var/log/syslog to see why it failed. If it's size related, do: echo "COMPRESS=xz" > /target/etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/compress and run the installer step to make it bootable again. And BTW, I suggest you use ext4 rather than ext2. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/
