herd2 32-bit: The installer cannot find a suitable kernel package to install

[Dmitry Mityugov]

During installation of the base system from the alternate CD, the installer displays the following error message: "Cannot install kernel. The installer cannot find a suitable kernel package to install".

The CD integrify test was successful.

I found reports about similar problems here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=339238. I used this hardware for the installation:

- ASUS A8N-E motherboard (based on nForce 4 Ultra chipset)
- Athlon x2 4200+ CPU
- 1 GB DDR RAM
- GeForce 7600 GS video card
- 2 SATA2 HDDs attached to SATA channels 1 and 3 (Samsungs, 250 GB each)
- a DVD drive attached as master to the 1st IDE channel

During installation, the following choices were made (I am not listing choices that were left in the default state):

- selected Advanced mode (pressed F6 twice before the installation)
- selected Russian keyboard. Keyboard layout - Russia Winkeys, no AltGr key
- did not enable services for PCMCIA cards
- named the computer walrusherd2, did not specify the domain name
- created a 10GB root partition (ext3). /boot (1GB) and swap (3GB) were already created
- created a user

Thank you in advance for your attention to this

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Thanks for your report. This is also bug 79109, since fixed.