Bug#287606: hppa 715/50 netboot installation failed
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version:
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-hppa/rc2/images/boot.img
(RC2)
http://people.debian.org/~jbailey/d-i/hppa/daily/netboot/boot.img
(15-Dec-2004)
uname -a: -
Date: 28. Dec 2004
Method: network install via rbootd
Machine: HP apollo 715/50
Processor: 50 Mhz
Memory: 32 MB
Root Device: 1 GB SCSI
Root Size/partition table: 100 MB swap, 15 MB PALO, 900 MB / (ext2)
Output of lspci and lspci -n: -
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD: [ ]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O] very very slow!
Create file systems: [O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Install boot loader: [O]
Reboot: [E]
Comments/Problems:
The whole installer is quite slow compared to the old
one (woody), although it seems that installing the base
system is faster (downloading, extracting and installing
the debs). But it takes often many seconds between two
screens and that is really annoying.
partman is very slow and I could only create an swap,
ext2 or palo partition. No reiser, no ext3, no jfs, no xfs,
although I selected the corresponding udebs. and you
really get crazy while waiting for the next screen (20 or
30 seconds...)
After rebooting the system just hang. The last output was:
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[...]
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Found i82596 at 0xf0826000, IRQ 87
82596.c: MAC of HP700 LAN read from EEPROM
eth0: Couldn't get consistent shared memory
eth0: 82596 at 0xf0826000, 08 00 09 78 5A E5 IRQ 87.
82596.c $Revision: 1.32 $
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The kernel 2.6 versions of the boot.img didn't work at all.
(Crash before the first d-i screen appears)
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