reassign 383557 base-installer tags 383557 + pending thanks On Friday 18 August 2006 01:56, dann frazier wrote: > Comments/Problems: > It nearly completed base-install, but failed installing a kernel > because it was trying to install initrd-tools for some reason. > > As you can see below, it chose to install linux-image-2.6-mckinley-smp, > which depends upon linux-image-2.6.16-2-mckinley-smp.
Reason seems to be this bit in base-installer templates-arch: Template: base-installer/kernel/linux/initramfs-2.6 Type: boolean Default: true Default[ia64]: false # This only indicates whether to use an initramfs or not (and will be # ignored unless the appropriate base-installer/kernel/linux/initrd* # is true). Description: use an initramfs (linux 2.6 only) And that is probably left over from: r32040 | cjwatson | 2005-11-14 17:22:49 +0100 (Mon, 14 Nov 2005) | 5 lines * Support configuring initramfs-tools rather than initrd-tools, and make that the default when installing 2.6. We still use initrd-tools on hppa and ia64, as the most current information I have indicates that initramfs-tools doesn't work there; porters should feel free to update this. I've left notes for where I think yaird could best be slotted in. I've removed the exception and will add an erratum for beta3. You should be able to work around this by passing this as boot parameter: base-installer/kernel/linux/initramfs-2.6=true That would confirm it is indeed the only issue. AFAIK initramfs-tools should be available on the CD. Thanks for reporting this.
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