Bug#266610: marked as done (manual partitioning looped back to partman startup)
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From: Eric Van Buggenhaut <ericvb@debian.org>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: installation-reports: [i386] [rc1] [netinst] reboot fails on SATA root
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Debian-installer-version: <Fill in date and from where you got the image>
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Machine: i386
Processor: p4 2,8GHZ
Memory: 512MB
Root Device: SATA
Root Size/partition table: <Feel free to paste the full partition
table, with notes on which partitions are mounted where.>
Output of lspci:
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [O]
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: [O]
Install boot loader: [O]
Reboot: [E]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
I installed rc1 using the businesscard iso. Booted expert26.
You guys made an impressive work but there are still some problems:
- Most important, my root device is a SATA disk. Although the installer correctly loads the module and partition the disk, when rebooting after base installed, the boot sequence crashes, because it is unable to find a root partition. I guess this is because the sata_promise kernel module isn't compiled in the kernel but rather as a loadable module and thus the kernel needs to mount / to load the module and to load the module it needs to mount / first. The same chicken/egg problem that happens with loadable scsi modules.
Do you have any fix for this ? Wouldn't it be better to have SATA support compiled in the kernel ?
How can I get my system to boot now ?
Now the less important stuff:
- I was unable to choose Belgian keyboard, the installer says that such a layout isn't available
- At the partition stage, I was unable to do the 'Manual Partitioning' clicking on that menu kept dropping me back at the previous menu. I tried partitioning from the console at Alt-F2 but never found out the device files. After digging around for a bit, I realized the devices files are now in /dev/ide. This is confusing and would probably need a help message: when booting the 2.4 installer image, my hard disk is at /dev/hde and when booting a 2.6 it is at /dev/ide/bus0/...
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7
Locale: LANG=fr_BE@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE@euro (ignored: LC_ALL set to fr_BE@euro)
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From: Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>
To: Eric.VanBuggenhaut@AdValvas.be, 266610-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#266595: installation-reports: [i386] [rc1] [netinst] reboot fails on SATA root partition
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On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 01:27:06PM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote:
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> - At the partition stage, I was unable to do the 'Manual Partitioning'
> clicking on that menu kept dropping me back at the previous menu.
This was because the previous menu was the menu for "Manual
Partitioning". From there you can create and delete partitions as well
as setup file systems and mount points.
> I tried partitioning from the console at Alt-F2 but never found out the
> device files. After digging around for a bit, I realized the devices
> files are now in /dev/ide. This is confusing and would probably need a
> help message: when booting the 2.4 installer image, my hard disk is at
> /dev/hde and when booting a 2.6 it is at /dev/ide/bus0/...
This is because the installer uses devfs. With devfs and 2.4 the SATA
drives are in /dev/scsi/... and with 2.6 they are in /dev/ide/...
Without devfs there is no difference between 2.4 and 2.6.
Many people are confused by this especialy because the partitioning
program displays hda, sda, i.e. non-devfs names in its dialogs.
Thanks for your installation report.
Anton Zinoviev
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