Re: Installation woes

[Michel <mi...@da...>]

On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 10:55, Kulwant Bhogal wrote: 
> 
> > On Mit, 2003-01-22 at 00:10, Kulwant Bhogal wrote: 
> >> 
> >> If I try to use the menu command for "Base System Installtion" and
> >> choose 
> >> 1. network as the source, it gets as far as extracting the various files 
> >> (after validating) and the progress bar gets all the way to the right
> >> with  the last file being extracted being
> >> /target/var/cache/apt/archives/whiptail_0.50.17-9.6_powerpc.deb...
> >> 
> >> and then I get an error message: 
> >>     debootsrap exited with an error (return value 1)
> >>     <continue>
> 
> > Have you tried booting into the base system after this?
> 
> Yes, it starts to boot up but I get a kernel panic when it tries to set the
> system clock from the hardware clock. 

Doing anything more with the installer is unlikely to change that.

> I can boot into a bash shell on the installation partition though. I 
> downloaded the 2.4.20 kernel (because somebody suggested trying a newer 
> kernel) and renamed vmlinuz to linux.bin (because I read in one of the 
> archived mails that vmlinux is the linux.bin file) 

Yes, it's the kernel image, but you need not rename it, just change the
argument to bootstrap.

> and that would not boot either - it kernel panics almost straight away. I 
> am not sure if I need to get a new root.bin file from somewhere to go with it.

root.bin is the installer ramdisk, you don't need it after installation.

> I have been going through the archived mails to this ML and I saw somewhere 
> that I could remove the commands from the boot scripts to stop it trying 
> to set the system clock, but I have not figured out how to do this yet.  

Try mv /etc/init.d/hwclock* /root/ .


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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
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