Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: built from svn, today uname -a: i386 Date: <Date and time of the install> Method: netboot
Machine: <Description of machine (eg, IBM Thinkpad R32)> Processor: Memory: Root Device: LVM LV Root Size/partition table: <Feel free to paste the full partition table, with notes on which partitions are mounted where.> Output of lspci: Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked: [O] Configure network HW: [O] Config network: [O] Detect CD: [ ] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [O] Create file systems: [O] Mount partitions: [O] see comments Install base system: [O] Install boot loader: [E] see comments Reboot: [O] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: I tried to install Debian (testing) with root device on LVM. Installation failed on boot loader installation step. First time d-i offered to install grub. I returned to main menu to install lilo. lilo installation failed. Problem is that root partition (VG vg01, LV newroot) was mounted as /dev/mapper/vg01-newroot. LVM tools does not understand logical volumes given in that format. Partition name should be /dev/vg01/newroot (this file is really symlink to /dev/mapper/vg01-newroot). d-i must not resolve such symlinks (resolved name was also writen to /target/etc/fstab!). After that I tryed to install d-i with low debconf priority. Before bootloader installation step I unmounted /target and mounted it again with command: mount -t ext3 /dev/vg01/newroot /target Then I choosed to install lilo (into MBR). There was no messages about failed installation. Screen just blinked. After that main menu appeared with header in English and menu entries in Ukrainian. Messages in other dialogs was in English (all messages are translated in Ukrainian in normal install!). After reboot my old grub bootloader appeared, so lilo was not installed. Next try... After lilo install i ran: chroot /target /sbin/lilo (this code is in lilo-installer too) Following messages appeared: Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not exists, disc scan bypassed Fatal: Sorry, don't know how to handle device 0xfe00 I did not seen such messages on any console before! I mounted /target/proc and rerun this command. Some warings appeared, no error messages. After reboot lilo loaded new Debian system. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]