Bug#405572: PowerPC, prep flavor: missing root= boot option after install

2007-01-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 04 January 2007 16:54, Ulrich Teichert wrote: After a successful installation on a Motorola PowerStack II, rebooting the fresh installation failed, because the kernel option root=/dev/sda2 (in my case) was missing. [...] ROOT=/dev/sda2 should be added to the

Bug#405572: PowerPC, prep flavor: missing root= boot option after install

2007-01-06 Thread Ulrich Teichert
Hi, On Thursday 04 January 2007 16:54, Ulrich Teichert wrote: After a successful installation on a Motorola PowerStack II, rebooting the fresh installation failed, because the kernel option root=/dev/sda2 (in my case) was missing. [...] ROOT=/dev/sda2 should be added to the

Bug#405572: PowerPC, prep flavor: missing root= boot option after install

2007-01-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 06 January 2007 12:32, Ulrich Teichert wrote: /dev/sda2 isn't the PReP partition. The PReP boot partition *has to be* the first primary partition on the boot disk. /dev/sda2 is the root partition of the fresh install in my case and of course this can and will be different. We only

Bug#405572: PowerPC, prep flavor: missing root= boot option after install

2007-01-06 Thread Frans Pop
tags 405572 + patch thanks On Saturday 06 January 2007 12:32, Ulrich Teichert wrote: Can you test if creating a file /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/prep-root with such a line works too? If it does, then that is much to be preferred. I just checked out the d-i trunk, I'll see what I can do.

Bug#405572: PowerPC, prep flavor: missing root= boot option after install

2007-01-06 Thread Ulrich Teichert
Hi, On Saturday 06 January 2007 12:32, Ulrich Teichert wrote: Can you test if creating a file /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/prep-root with such a line works too? If it does, then that is much to be preferred. I just checked out the d-i trunk, I'll see what I can do. You don't really need

Bug#405572: PowerPC, prep flavor: missing root= boot option after install

2007-01-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 06 January 2007 15:24, Ulrich Teichert wrote: I think that you wanted to type prep-root here and that's just a typo, right? The same typo is in the proposed-production patch, I can feel a flu coming on and I think that must be affecting my brain... At least I write ROOT= to the file

Bug#405572: PowerPC, prep flavor: missing root= boot option after install

2007-01-06 Thread Sven Luther
I can't resist to mail about this, i had every intention of not doing so, but i think that both Ulrich and Frans are missing some important facts, so i will add them here. On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 12:32:08PM +0100, Ulrich Teichert wrote: Hi, On Thursday 04 January 2007 16:54, Ulrich Teichert

Bug#405572: PowerPC, prep flavor: missing root= boot option after install

2007-01-04 Thread Ulrich Teichert
Package: base-installer Version: 1.70 After a successful installation of the d-i daily netinstall build from: cdimage.d.o:/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/20070103-2/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso on a Motorola PowerStack II, rebooting the fresh installation failed, because the