• Problems/Bugs installing via CD and qemu on native hw

    From Zimmermann, Benjamin (K-SIOI/62)@21:1/5 to All on Fri Nov 3 11:10:02 2017
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  • From Philipp Kern@21:1/5 to Benjamin Jakob Zimmermann on Fri Nov 3 10:40:02 2017
    To: debian-s390@lists.debian.org

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    On 11/03/2017 10:30 AM, Benjamin Jakob Zimmermann wrote:
    I get stalled installing a new VM via qemu with missing files
    (/bin/hw-detect and /bin/check-missing-firmware) and missing kernel ('No installable kernel found')‎.

    I work around the first issue by switching to a bash terminal and
    creating dummy files with exit code 0‎:
    $ echo -e '#!/bin/sh\nexit 0' > /bin/hw-detect
    $ chmod +x /bin/hw-detect
    $ cp /bin/hw-detect /bin/check-missing-firmware
    Then continue with installation before running into the aforementioned
    kernel issue.

    I got a more complete log on this.

    Please file a bug against debian-installer (reportbug has a template)
    and attach the installer's syslog (or optimally all of /var/log/installer).

    Kind regards and thanks
    Philipp Kern


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  • From Philipp Kern@21:1/5 to Zimmermann, Benjamin (K-SIOI/62) on Fri Nov 3 12:30:02 2017
    To: debian-s390@lists.debian.org (debian-s390@lists.debian.org)

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    Hi,

    On 11/03/2017 10:44 AM, Zimmermann, Benjamin (K-SIOI/62) wrote:
    I cannot find /var/log/installer:
    ~ # ls -1 /var/log/
    partman
    syslog
    ~ # ls -1 /target/var/log/
    alternatives.log
    apt
    btmp
    dpkg.log
    faillog
    lastlog
    wtmp

    Is there some other place I should take a look at?
    Or will posting /var/syslog be enough?

    /var/log/installer is present in the installed system (i.e. it is
    preserved after the installation). If taken from the installer, a tar of /var/log should be sufficient.

    Kind regards and thanks
    Philipp Kern


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