Simon, can you please respond to my email below. IMHO your installation report can be closed because there's no bug in the installer but I'd like to get a confirmation from you. Thanks.
* Martin Michlmayr <[email protected]> [2009-09-19 17:49]: > * Simon McVittie <[email protected]> [2009-08-25 01:50]: > > Booting with the serial console appeared to stop at the stage of starting > > init; I never got a shell on the serial port, and d-i never got as far as > > doing DHCP, for some reason (the server's logs indicate that it never > > received > > a request). In the absence of a shell, I couldn't debug this. > > I cannot reproduce this. I just took a daily image and it boots fine. > I first see the kernel messages, then "Starting system log daemon: > syslogd, klogd." and then a black screen with a green cursos and a > little bit later I get a window with DHCP. > > Can you please boot the installer again and see what happens? > > > At the "partition disks" stage, no disks were found or offered for > > partitioning; dmesg reported that both SATA links were down. > ... > > I suspected that the serial console providing partial power to the board > > might > > be causing problems, so I disconnected it before the first boot of the > > installed system. As I'd hoped, both disks were brought up correctly > > in the installed system > > So you're saying the disk didn't come up in d-i because of the serial > connector? So can I ignore this issue? > > The way I read your report, there are three issues: > - d-i doesn't start properly: I cannot reproduce this. I'd like to > hear more info. > - initrd size in my docs are wrong: fixed. > - disk doesn't come up: caused by your serial connector. > > Right? > -- > Martin Michlmayr > http://www.cyrius.com/ -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
