Bug#226040: Install report: alpha businesscard 2004-01-02
Package: installation-reports
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: n/a
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]
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21040 [Tulip] (rev 23)
01:01.0 SCSI storage controller: QLogic Corp. ISP1020 Fast-wide SCSI (rev 01)
01:02.0 SCSI storage controller: QLogic Corp. ISP1020 Fast-wide SCSI (rev 01)
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked: [E]
Configure network HW: [ ]
Config network: [ ]
Detect CD: [ ]
Load installer modules: [ ]
Detect hard drives: [E]
Partition hard drives: [ ]
Create file systems: [ ]
Mount partitions: [ ]
Install base system: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Reboot: [ ]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
>From the SRM bootloader, aboot tried to load the kernel with a root dev value of
/dev/rd/0. The kernel doesn't recognize this as a valid device. Manually booting
using root=/dev/ram0 instead succeeds, and gets me to the language chooser.
Language chooser: although the alpha images nominally include support for querying
the default language from the SRM environment, inspection of the d-i environment
shows that SRM env support is neither compiled into the kernel, nor available as a
module by the time /etc/rcS.d/S40srm-* runs.
Also, it appears that nothing inititalizes the file /var/log/syslog; instead of
seeing kernel output on vt 4, I see scrolling complaints from tail that it can't
open this file.
IDE/SCSI hardware detection appears to hang (or at least takes an insufferably
long time) while trying to load the qlogicisp module. This is indeed the correct
driver for my SCSI card. The pre-existing Debian install on this machine has the
module built into the kernel, and the kernel is 2.4.19 (vs. d-i's
2.4.22-1-generic). There were known PCI issues with 2.4.20/21 on alpha, but I've
used 2.4.22 successfully elsewhere. I'll try to get a stock kernel-image booting
on here, to see if I can reproduce the problem outside of d-i.
--
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer
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