sorry, I got distracted by some other project for the past week..
> It's "/usr/sbin/update-initramfs". Do you have "/usr" mounted?
>
no. it's not mounted. see below.
> What choices did you make for rescue mode?
>
I think I chose the correct options:
1. booted off of CD drive
2. Installer boot menu - Advanced options - Rescue mode
3. select language menu
4. country menu
5. keymap menu
6. installer loads 'additional components..'
7. network configuration
8. hostname and domain name selection
9. 'setting up the clock' and timezone selection
10. Detecting disks..
and I see the following dialog:
"""
[!!] Enter rescue mode
The installer could not find any partitions, so you will not be able to mount a
root file system. This may be caused by the kernel failing to detect your hard
disk drive or failing to read the partition table, or the disk may be
unpartitioned. If you wish you may investigate this from a shell in the
installer environment.
No partitions found.
"""
Not sure if it matters but I should mention that I'm using a vmware instance as
the target install system. So, the hard disk is a virtual disk (16 GB in size)
and listed as a 'SCSI (0:0) Hard disk 1'.
Without knowing much about the hard drives and partitions, I tried with two
different ways - once by trying on the rescue mode without any previously
installed OS on the hard disk. A second time by installing os first (of course,
partition creation all went well and the os was installed successfully) and
then trying to boot into rescue mode. Again, this may not matter at all..
but in both cases, in rescue mode, it just doesn't appear to find the partition
at all.
Could it be something related to VMs or just that I could be missing something?
Back to the issue I have had with seeding where it stopped at finding the 'root
file system', wonder if it was not an issue with my preseed.cfg but something
else (VM-related, installer (?)).
Thanks again.
