Package: installation-reports Version: N/A; reported 2003-11-28 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable
Target: Dell Workstation 400 Dual 9.1 GiB SCSI Hard Drives and Plexor CDR attached to a PCI 2940UW SCSI card 128MiB Ram Single PII @300 MHz Matrox Mill II *The bios does not recognize the scsi as a boot device* This system has only two methods of booting: Floppy or Netboot. 3C905C with PXE Report: Wow, this is a very nice change. I required the 3COM drivers to boot a kernel. With the new installer it was simply a quick job of mounting the initrd, chrooting and doing a udpkg -i net-extras.udeb. Very nice. Had some issues with the ramdisk. I set the pxelinux kernel options as follows: ramdisk_size=8192 root=/dev/ram initrd=kernel-initrd (I'm a bit lazy at 3:00am). This information should be in the documentation. In this situation, the cdrom is not recognized until the scsi modules are loaded. And even if the cdrom is recognized, I do not have a desire to load from the cd. So, if the installer modules did not load correctly, I would be stuck in a loop of configuring the CD-ROM. Kind of bad Another irratation is the removal of a break from the installer process. In the older installer, if things were failing, I could hit ctrl-C and the installer would restart. This should be reimplemented. After things got burning, I found another issue. In my situation, I need to move the initrd as well as the vmlinux to the netboot server. So I tried the default of scp (DOH.. This is an installer), ftp and finally nfs. Shock and amazement, nothing worked. I was saved by doing a chroot to the target and apt-getting ftp. It was very ugly, but it worked. Doing a base-config in the installer would have solved my issue of moving the initrd and vmlinuz if it worked. I selected the 2.6.0-test9 and the base-config failed. It would be very nice to allow another choice of doing a complete configuration within the debinstaller. Then downloading ssh and doing anything required is very simple. Post reboot is ugly. I now get the dreaded dev/console not found. It looks like the pivot-root command is not in the 2.6 initrd. Needs more investigation.... Good night. -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux FireWhip 2.4.18-cent-grsec #1 Sat Aug 16 16:45:04 PDT 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
