>> But now the installer fails in the "Install the base system" step, >> saying: "No installable kernel was found in the defined APT sources"... >> when the last time I tested with changed machid and original uImage it >> worked with the same sources. > >What does /var/log/syslog say when this happens?
I managed to complete the installation by continuing without a kernel and when the 'make the system bootable' step failed, go to a shell and exec 'apt-install linux-image-kirkwood', and then rerun the 'make the system bootable' step. It seems to complete well the installation. Although I changed in /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf: MODULES=most -> MODULES=dep, because by default the installer chooses 'targeted' but when I installed the kernel it seems it chosed 'generic' initramfs. (both options booted ok). The relevant part of /var/log/installer/syslog seems to be this: May 17 15:18:57 in-target: Generating locales (this might take a while)...^M May 17 15:18:57 in-target: Generation complete. May 17 15:18:57 in-target: ^M May 17 15:19:01 localechooser: Adding locale 'en_US.UTF-8' May 17 15:19:01 localechooser: Generating added locales... May 17 15:19:13 base-installer: info: could not determine kernel flavour May 17 15:19:13 base-installer: info: could not determine kernel flavour May 17 15:19:13 base-installer: info: could not determine kernel flavour May 17 15:19:13 base-installer: info: could not determine kernel flavour May 17 15:19:13 base-installer: info: could not determine kernel flavour May 17 15:19:13 base-installer: info: could not determine kernel flavour May 17 15:19:13 base-installer: info: could not determine kernel flavour May 17 15:19:13 base-installer: info: could not determine kernel flavour May 17 15:19:13 base-installer: info: Found kernels '' May 17 17:59:53 base-installer: info: Not installing any kernel May 17 17:59:53 base-installer: info: Installing queued packages into /target/. May 17 17:59:55 in-target: Reading package lists... May 17 17:59:55 in-target:
