kernel installation problems

[Mike Henson]

On 8/10/05, Andreas Sindermann <sinder at thp.uni-koeln.de> wrote:
> Mike Henson writes:
>  > Greetings,
>  >
>  > I have a 2.8.4 FAI install server that I cannot get to install a
>  > kernel. My install client PXE boots, partitions the disk and appears
>  > to work up until invoking task_configure where I get the following
>  > logged to shell.log:
>  >
>  > Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub .
>  > Testing for an existing GRUB menu.list file... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst .
>  > Searching for splash image... none found, skipping...
>  > /bin/ls: /boot/vmlinuz-*: No such file or directory
>  > Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done
>  >
>  > If I ctrl-c before rebooting and check /tmp/target/boot grub is there
>  > but the kernel is missing. I have also tried LILO and the kernel does
>  > not install either. Can someone enlighten me on what might be
>  > happening? I cannot find any references to kernel installation in the
>  > docs.
> 
> What is the software.log file saying about the installation of the
> kernel (should be located somewhere before the grub stuff above)?

 I see no kernel references in software.log. The only NEW packages it
lists are GRUB.  Where is it supposed to copy the kernel from?