Hi, >Can I get the exact error message, preferably from the log files under >/var/log? My suspicion is that debian-installer tries to install the >wrong kernel version and therefore fails. > >Apparently, being able to install the proper kernel version is a bit >tricky and according to Helge Deller (CC) is the main reason why he >uses snapshotted debian-ports.org mirrors for the installation. > >I have the suspicion that debian-installer looks for a particular >kernel version which was determined at build time.
There are quite a number of interesting entries in the syslog of the installer. Complete log after disk detection: Jan 1 17:54:34 partman: Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... Jan 1 17:57:50 kernel: [ 1578.055815] Adding 979952k swap on /dev/sda2. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:979952k FS Jan 1 17:57:50 kernel: [ 1578.092955] Adding 224896k swap on /dev/sdb2. Priority:-2 extents:1 across:224896k FS Jan 1 17:57:52 kernel: [ 1579.899054] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounting ext3 file system using the ext4 subsystem Jan 1 17:57:52 kernel: [ 1579.938840] EXT4-fs (sdb1): warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended Jan 1 17:57:52 kernel: [ 1579.949878] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: errors=remount-ro Jan 1 17:57:55 apt-install: Queueing package e2fsprogs for later installation Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): /lib/partman/init.d/26zfs-device--More-- (31% of 1309s: Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): line 42: Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): zpool: not found Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): /lib/partman/choose_partition/60partition_tree/do_option: Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): line 88: Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): /lib/partman/active_partition/copy/choices: not found Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): /lib/partman/choose_partition/60partition_tree/do_option: Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): line 88: Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): /lib/partman/active_partition/copy/choices: not found Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): /lib/partman/choose_partition/60partition_tree/do_option: Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): line 88: Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): /lib/partman/active_partition/copy/choices: not found Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): /lib/partman/choose_partition/60--More-- (32% of 1309partition_tree/do_option: Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): line 88: Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): /lib/partman/active_partition/copy/choices: not found Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): /lib/partman/choose_partition/60partition_tree/do_option: Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): line 88: Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): /lib/partman/active_partition/copy/choices: not found Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): /lib/partman/fstab.d/zfs: Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): line 49: Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): zpool: not found Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): /lib/partman/fstab.d/zfs: Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): line 49: Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): zpool: not found Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): /lib/partman/fstab.d/zfs: Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): line 49: Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): zpool: not found Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): /lib/partman/fstab.d/zfs: Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): line 49: Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): zpool: not found Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): /lib/partman/fstab.d/zfs: Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): line 49: Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): zpool: not found Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): /lib/partman/fstab.d/zfs: Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): line 49: Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): zpool: not found Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): Jan 1 17:58:04 main-menu[150]: INFO: Menu item 'bootstrap-base' selected Jan 1 17:58:04 base-installer: warning: Unknown architecture 'sparc64'. Then packages are installed, where some warnings wrt dependecies are issued and ignored, packages are configured and...: Jan 1 18:13:04 debootstrap: Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.21-6) ... Jan 1 18:13:04 debootstrap: Processing triggers for systemd (228-2) ... Jan 1 18:13:11 apt-install: Queueing package keyboard-configuration for later installation Jan 1 18:13:11 apt-install: Queueing package console-setup for later installation Jan 1 18:13:12 base-installer: Get:1 http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian sid InRelease [41.0 kB] Jan 1 18:13:14 base-installer: Ign:1 http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian sid InRelease Jan 1 18:13:14 base-installer: Hit:2 http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian sid/main sparc64 Packages Jan 1 18:13:40 base-installer: Fetched 41.0 kB in 27s (1482 B/s) Jan 1 18:13:40 base-installer: Reading package lists... Jan 1 18:13:59 base-installer: Jan 1 18:13:59 base-installer: W Jan 1 18:13:59 base-installer: : Jan 1 18:13:59 base-installer: GPG error: http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian sid InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY A53AB45AC448326E Jan 1 18:13:59 base-installer: Jan 1 18:13:59 base-installer: W Jan 1 18:13:59 base-installer: : Jan 1 18:13:59 base-installer: The repository 'http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian sid InRelease' is not signed. Jan 1 18:13:59 base-installer: Jan 1 18:13:59 base-installer: W Jan 1 18:13:59 base-installer: : Jan 1 18:13:59 base-installer: There is no public key available for the following key IDs: Jan 1 18:13:59 base-installer: A53AB45AC448326E Jan 1 18:13:59 base-installer: Jan 1 18:14:06 in-target: Reading package lists... Jan 1 18:14:07 in-target: Jan 1 18:14:07 in-target: Building dependency tree... Jan 1 18:14:09 in-target: Jan 1 18:14:12 in-target: The following additional packages will be installed: Jan 1 18:14:12 in-target: libc-l10n Jan 1 18:14:12 in-target: The following NEW packages will be installed: Jan 1 18:14:12 in-target: libc-l10n locales Jan 1 18:14:12 in-target: 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Jan 1 18:14:12 in-target: Need to get 4112 kB of archives. Jan 1 18:14:12 in-target: After this operation, 16.8 MB of additional disk space will be used. Jan 1 18:14:12 in-target: WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! Jan 1 18:14:12 in-target: libc-l10n locales Jan 1 18:14:12 in-target: Authentication warning overridden. Jan 1 18:14:12 in-target: Get:1 http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian sid/main sparc64 libc-l10n all 2.21-6 [789 kB] Jan 1 18:14:14 in-target: Get:2 http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian sid/main sparc64 locales all 2.21-6 [3323 kB] Jan 1 18:14:22 in-target: Preconfiguring packages ... Jan 1 18:14:23 in-target: Fetched 4112 kB in 6s (634 kB/s) Jan 1 18:14:23 in-target: Selecting previously unselected package libc-l10n. Jan 1 18:14:23 in-target: (Reading database ... [repeated Reading database snipped] Jan 1 18:14:24 in-target: 8999 files and directories currently installed.) Jan 1 18:14:24 in-target: ^M Jan 1 18:14:24 in-target: Preparing to unpack .../libc-l10n_2.21-6_all.deb ... Jan 1 18:14:24 in-target: ^M Jan 1 18:14:24 in-target: Unpacking libc-l10n (2.21-6) ... Jan 1 18:14:24 in-target: ^M Jan 1 18:14:27 in-target: Selecting previously unselected package locales. Jan 1 18:14:27 in-target: ^M Jan 1 18:14:27 in-target: Preparing to unpack .../locales_2.21-6_all.deb ... Jan 1 18:14:27 in-target: ^M Jan 1 18:14:27 in-target: Unpacking locales (2.21-6) ... Jan 1 18:14:27 in-target: ^M Jan 1 18:14:35 in-target: Setting up libc-l10n (2.21-6) ... Jan 1 18:14:35 in-target: ^M Jan 1 18:14:35 in-target: Setting up locales (2.21-6) ... Jan 1 18:14:35 in-target: ^M Jan 1 18:14:43 in-target: Generating locales (this might take a while)...^M Jan 1 18:14:43 in-target: Generation complete. Jan 1 18:14:43 in-target: ^M Jan 1 18:14:49 localechooser: Adding locale 'en_US.UTF-8' Jan 1 18:14:49 localechooser: Generating added locales... Jan 1 18:15:11 base-installer: error: Unable to execute /usr/lib/post-base-installer.d/60partman-zfs Jan 1 18:15:20 base-installer: info: could not determine kernel flavour Jan 1 18:15:20 base-installer: info: could not determine kernel flavour Jan 1 18:15:20 base-installer: info: could not determine kernel flavour Jan 1 18:15:20 base-installer: info: could not determine kernel flavour Jan 1 18:15:20 base-installer: info: Found kernels '' Jan 1 18:17:00 base-installer: error: exiting on error base-installer/kernel/no-kernels-found Jan 1 18:17:03 main-menu[150]: WARNING **: Configuring 'bootstrap-base' failed with error code 30 Jan 1 18:17:03 main-menu[150]: WARNING **: Menu item 'bootstrap-base' failed. Jan 1 18:17:06 main-menu[150]: INFO: Modifying debconf priority limit from 'hig--More-- (99% of 1309h' to 'medium' Jan 1 18:17:06 debconf: Setting debconf/priority to medium Jan 1 18:17:21 main-menu[150]: INFO: Menu item 'di-utils-shell' selected Hope this is helpful, CU, Uli -- Dipl. 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