On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 01:46:57PM -0700, David Warman wrote: > Am I supposed to respond directly to you or should I redirect this to > a more formal address?
The bug address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is the right place to send replies; cc:ing now. > Sorry, not assuming buggy crap. Debian is anything but. Only assuming > that if I was not given the option to place init that it would be > taken care of. That it wasn't taken care of I consider a single bug, > and it surprised me too. Would have stumped me if I didn't have some > knowledge of what I am doing, and almost did. Well, grub certainly doesn't need you to manually specify the path to init in the general case. Did you add this boot option in /addition/ to the defaults, or /replacing/ them? If you replaced the default options, that at least suggests where to continue looking for the problem. > Boot method: CD (downloaded the latest stable CD .iso) > Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r0/i386/bt-cd/ > debian-40r0-i386-CD-1.iso.torrent > Date: 4/23/07 5:30pm > Machine: Intel PC server chassis, > Processor: PIII > Memory: 2GB RAM, 80GB IDE HD > Partitions: accepted the default option presented during > installation, i.e. use entire disk, about 2.5Gb for swap. I did not > make any changes to this. > i.e. a basic standard oldish system, perhaps a little higher in > capacity but no special devices. Not even sound. Just new enough to > have two USB 1 ports. > Output of lspci -nn and lspci -vnn: don't have the machine set up > yet to where I can share the results back to my Mac, however I do not > think the Broadcom CNB20LE bridge or ATI Rage XL or the two Intel > 82557 Ethernet controllers etc would have affected where init was > placed. Not that the lspci output matters much in this case, but this is almost certainly not a problem with where init was placed. > Base System Installation Checklist: > [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it > > Initial boot: [ O] > Detect network card: [ O ] > Configure network: [ O] > Detect CD: [ O] > Load installer modules: [O ] > Detect hard drives: [ O] > Partition hard drives: [ O] > Install base system: [ O but ignored video resolution selection] > Clock/timezone setup: [O] > User/password setup: [ O but not in sudoers ] > Install tasks: [ O] > Install boot loader: [ O ] > Overall install: [ O- ] > > Comments/Problems: > > Took everything at default settings. > Installer placed init in /sbin/init, kernel looked for it as /init, > couldn't find it, and panic'ed on reboot. What is the output leading up to this error message, when booting without an init= option? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
