[Voyage-linux] Fatal Error: Failed to chroot to to install lilo

[Kim-man 'Punky' TSE]

Hi Burlen,

I recalled that lilo may not be installed properly if you install voyage 
from a host linux system other than Debian.  Not sure if it is related. 

Regards,
Punky

burlen wrote:
> Thank you for your feedback. However, that is not the problem. The 
> drive had been partitioned and  formatted prior to the install as you 
> suggest. As you can see from the output below, the install is 
> successful up until the lilo portion. From this, it is clear that 
> there is a bug in the install script. I am not asking for help here 
> but rather attempting to point out an issue that could be addressed by 
> Voyage maintainers(if this sounds rude, its unintended).
>
> Burlen
>
>
>
> Cool/Explosion wrote:
>> Hi burlen,
>> you must make filesystem on sdc.
>> You can use fdisk or cfdisk (its easyer)
>> and mkfs.ext2 /dev/sdc1 to format fs....
>>
>> Bye CoolEx...
>>
>> burlen napsal(a):
>>> Hi all, I have been having some issues with my net4521 and decided 
>>> that I should attempt a Voyage install as a sanity check. However, 
>>> when I make the install, I have the following issue(note grub 
>>> install does finish with no errors):
>>>
>>> Configuration details:
>>> ----------------------
>>>
>>> Distribution directory:   /home/burlen/voyage-0.4.1
>>>
>>> Disk/Flash Device:        /dev/sdc
>>> Installation Partition:   /dev/sdc1
>>>
>>> Will be mounted on:       /home/burlen/target
>>>
>>> Target system profile:    4511/4521
>>> Target console:           serial
>>> Target baud rate:         9600
>>>
>>> Bootstrap installer:      lilo
>>>
>>> OK to continue (y/n)? y
>>>
>>> Ready to go ....
>>> Copying files .... done
>>>
>>> Removing dnsmasq.pxe.conf in /etc/dnsmasq.more.conf
>>> Fatal: stat /dev/sdc: No such file or directory
>>> Fatal Error: Failed to chroot to  to install lilo
>>> copyfiles.sh script completed
>>>
>>> finally, stat does indeed work,
>>>
>>> $stat /dev/sdc
>>> File: `/dev/sdc'
>>> Size: 0               Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   block 
>>> special file
>>> Device: eh/14d  Inode: 552253      Links: 1     Device type: 8,20
>>> Access: (0660/brw-rw----)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (   46/ 
>>> plugdev)
>>> Access: 2008-01-17 08:49:03.556142901 -0500
>>> Modify: 2008-01-17 08:48:59.555914941 -0500
>>> Change: 2008-01-17 08:48:59.555914941 -0500
>>>
>
>
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Regards,
Punky

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