On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 3:48 PM, keshav prabhakar <kes...@hotmail.com> wrote: > 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. It all looks OK except for the fact that d-i can't see your disks. Are your disks still attached?! While at that screen, go to VT2 and run "fdisk -l". > 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 (?)). The wheezy and squeeze installs that I ran with your preseed file were VMWare VMs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=sxby4atahijtk7nqktg0jglbjdadxudvowuqiqmu81...@mail.gmail.com
