reassign 311678 merge 311678 288129 tags 311678 d-i thanks On Thursday 02 June 2005 19:53, David Johnson wrote: > The installation was going fine up until halfway through installing the > base system. When it got to installing the kernel image and tried to > make an initrd, it failed by saying that '/dev/sdi2 isn't a valid block > device'. It was a valid block device because it had just partitioned it > and created the filing system (ext3). > > I later re-tried the installation with the boot and root filesystems on > sda, which worked fine, so I can only presume it was a problem with > trying to install onto such a high disk ID.
The only problem is that by default there are no devices in /dev for more than 8 disks. This is a known issue [1]. You can work around it as follows: - install in export mode or with debconf/priority=medium - when you get question which kernel to install: - switch to VT2 - chroot /target - MAKEDEV the additional devices - exit the chroot - switch back to VT1 - problem solved. Cheers, FJP [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=288129 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
