On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 09:35:14PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 11:10:24PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 09:13:23PM +0000, Chris Tillman wrote: > > > I'll just mention at the end here that the installer is really top > > > notch now, it installed the base system without a hitch and I didn't > > > have one clue that anything was wrong until yaboot installation barfed > > > with 'Failed to mount /proc'. The underlying problem was yabootconfig > > > being unable to find a bootable kernel in /boot. > > > > yaboot-installer doesn't even run yabootconfig, so this seems > > impossible. Can you elaborate on how you discovered that this was the > > underlying problem? The only two code paths to that error in > > yaboot-installer are: > > > > mkdir -p /target/proc || \ > > die yaboot-installer/mounterr 'Error creating /target/proc' > > mount -t proc none /target/proc || \ > > die yaboot-installer/mounterr 'Error mounting /target/proc' > > Uh oh, faulty assumption on my part. I thought yaboot-installer was > still running yabootconfig. > > The error message I got was neither of those, it was literally 'Failed > to mount /target/proc'.
Actually I found the cause of this independently due to another bug report; apt-install mounts /target/proc, so yaboot-installer should only mount it if it needs to do so. Fixed in Subversion trunk. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
