Wheezy install fails on SATA

on a 4TB SATA drive:

rescue:/tmp# gdisk /dev/sda
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.5

Partition table scan:
  MBR: hybrid
  BSD: not present
  APM: not present
  GPT: present

Found valid GPT with hybrid MBR; using GPT.

Command (? for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 7814037168 sectors, 3.6 TiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 0493DA05-36C3-46E7-B87C-B31C5CC8E167
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 7814037134
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 2014 sectors (1007.0 KiB)

Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
   1            2048        20973567   10.0 GiB    8300  sata-root
   2        20973568        23070719   1024.0 MiB  8200  swap
   3        23070720      7814037134   3.6 TiB     8300  goflex

I attempted to install wheezy, and I got the following errors:

I: Configuring initramfs-tools...
W: Failure while configuring base packages.  This will be re-attempted up to five times.
W: See /tmp/debian/debootstrap/debootstrap.log for details (possibly the package initramfs-tools is at fault)
debootstrap failed.
See /tmp/debian/debootstrap/debootstrap.log for more information.

in /tmp/debian/debootstrap/debootstrap.log for more information. it says:

Setting up linux-image-kirkwood (3.2+46) ...
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-4-kirkwood
Warning: root device  does not exist

Unable to abort; system will probably be broken!
Unsupported platform.
run-parts: /etc/initramfs/post-update.d//flash-kernel exited with return code 1
dpkg: error processing initramfs-tools (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for flash-kernel ...
Unsupported platform.
dpkg: error processing flash-kernel (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 initramfs-tools
 flash-kernel
Setting up initramfs-tools (0.109) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Setting up flash-kernel (3.3) ...
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-4-kirkwood
Warning: root device  does not exist

Unable to abort; system will probably be broken!
Unsupported platform.
run-parts: /etc/initramfs/post-update.d//flash-kernel exited with return code 1
dpkg: error processing initramfs-tools (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 initramfs-tools

Ive attached the complete debootstrap.log



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/14/2013 02:57PM by Cassie.

You seem to be having the same issue I am also experiencing.

If you have any working debian install on anything (including USB) aside from the recovery system,
there is a workaround here http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,9256,9256,quote=1

basically from what I can gather, the main script broke and even though the installer script has been updated, some people are still having issues with it.

If you want you can try this if you just want to try to have a working base system
http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,7806

I didn't have any luck with it but maybe you will.

Cheers,
Brandon W.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/19/2013 06:42PM by Brainy142.

Cassie, try booting the NSA320 rootfs image on your goflex and see if that works, I was also unable to get either script to work and the rootfs image was the only thing I could get to work.

http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,7806