no bootmaneger or bootable kernel installed on Pegasos

[Peter Czanik]

Found in the daily snapshot of Ubuntu 7.04 from 1st February.

When Ubuntu is installed on a Pegasos, there is no bootmanager installed, and no bootable kernel image is created. A a consequence, the installed system can not be booted. An information page is showed to the user, but has false information, suggests to use: 'boot hd1:7 boot/', which is a directory, not a bootable file.

Recommendation: Debian uses the 'mkvmlinuz' utility to create a bootable kernel image, combining vmlinux and initrd into one file in /boot/vmlinuz. Boot information should point to this file.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

We do try to use mkvmlinuz; it is obviously failing for you for some reason. Could you please attach /var/log/syslog from the installer to this bug? Assuming your machine is networked, you can extract it by going back to the main menu and using the "Save debug logs" item.

[Peter Czanik (pczanik)]

OK, starting a fresh install now.

Related question: are these problems related (Pegasos):
- EdUbuntu intall stops in the middle and the menu shows 'continue without a boot manager'
- EdUbuntu install stalls in the middle of creating the LTSP chroot environment, only the 'reset' button helps...

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