[Simple-cdd-devel] Bug#548919: simple-cdd: Built images fail to have modules, partition, or mount filesystems

[Paul Evans]

Package: simple-cdd
Version: 0.3.11
Severity: normal


Given a fresh new directory, I simply

  $ mkdir my-simple-cdd-squeeze
  $ cd my-simple-cdd-squeeze
  $ simple-cdd
  ...

It successfully creates an image:

  $ ls -l images/debian-testing-amd64-CD-1.iso 
  -rw-r--r-- 1 paul paul 134M 2009-09-29 17:37 images/debian-testing-amd64-CD-1.iso

I then run it on a new blank image:

  $ dd if=/dev/zero of=qemu-test.hda bs=1M count=2048
  $ kvm -hda qemu-test.hda -cdrom images/debian-testing-amd64-CD-1.iso -boot d

When the image boots I choose the normal "installer".

After choosing language and keyboard layout, it complains that:

  No kernel modules were found. This probably is due to a mismatch
  between the kernel used by this version of the installer and the
  kernel version available in the archive.

So I continue without modules.

It then of course fails to detect network hardware (without the drivers
for it), so I skip that too and move on to disk partitioning.

It complains (with a red background) that "Logical Volume Manager not
available". Hitting continue here moves on to the "Partition disks"
screen.

This screen has pre-selected a guessed arrangement for the disks. If I
hit <No> I just get stuck in a loop, not being able to run the manual
partitioner. Hitting <Yes> sends it off to create the partition and mkfs
it, but it then fails to mount with a generic "The attempt to mount a
filesystem with type ext3 in IDE1 master, partition #1 (hda1) at /
failed." message. It gives no further information on why.

At this point the installation can go no further.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages simple-cdd depends on:
ii  apt-utils                     0.7.23.1   APT utility programs
ii  dctrl-tools                   2.13.1     Command-line tools to process Debi
ii  debian-cd                     3.1.2      Tools for building (Official) Debi
ii  debootstrap                   1.0.15     Bootstrap a basic Debian system
ii  lsb-release                   3.2-23     Linux Standard Base version report
ii  python                        2.5.4-2    An interactive high-level object-o
ii  reprepro                      3.12.1-1   Debian package repository producer
ii  rsync                         3.0.6-1    fast remote file copy program (lik
ii  wget                          1.11.4-4   retrieves files from the web

Versions of packages simple-cdd recommends:
ii  edos-debcheck                 1.0-9      Check package dependencies (transi
ii  edos-distcheck [edos-debcheck 1.4.2-5    Checks whether dependencies of pac

Versions of packages simple-cdd suggests:
ii  qemu                          0.10.6-1   fast processor emulator

-- no debconf information