INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: 2004-01-02 sarge-alpha-businesscard.iso, from http://people.debian.org/~manty/testing/netinst/alpha/ uname -a: n/a Date: Sat Jan 3 15:46:40 CST 2004 Method: CD boot via SRM console Machine: Microway AlphaPC 164SX Processor: Alpha 21164 533 MHz Memory: 384MB Root Device: /dev/hdd2 Output of lspci: 00:05.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41) 00:05.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41) 00:05.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 02) 00:06.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21050 (rev 02) 00:07.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 02) 00:07.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 02) 00:08.0 ISA bridge: Contaq Microsystems 82c693 00:08.1 IDE interface: Contaq Microsystems 82c693 00:08.2 IDE interface: Contaq Microsystems 82c693 00:08.3 USB Controller: Contaq Microsystems 82c693 00:09.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA 2164W [Millennium II] Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked: [E] Configure network HW: [ ] Config network: [ ] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [E] Create file systems: [O] Mount partitions: [O] Install base system: [ ] Install boot loader: [ ] Reboot: [ ] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: So, I figured I'd give this image another go after pulling the SCSI controller out of the machine. The SCSI card happens to be an integrated SCSI/ethernet device, so there was definitely no network configuration happening on this one -- and the netinst image quite persistently let me know that this wasn't going to work, but I continued on anyway to see how far I could get. :) With the qlogic card out, detecting the remaining IDE hard drives worked just fine. When it came time to partition, though, the installer failed miserably. Although the partitioner udeb has a script to tell it which partitioning program to use, and knew that it was supposed to use fdisk for SRM-based systems, fdisk-udeb wasn't installed. Installing the udeb by hand let the partitioning run normally, showing that everything else was being detected correctly. By this point, the ailing IDE drive I'd thrown in for the test was giving me frequent read errors, so I never got through creating a new filesystem; though mounting the existing fs did work when I tested it, and formatting only failed because the hardware balked. I've also tested the kernel-image-2.4.23-1-generic package on this system, and it shows the same problem initializing the SCSI driver as the 2.4.22 kernel on the CD did. I'll continue trying to get to the bottom of that little failure. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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