Bug#304248: install report - alpha 500au - first soft-reboot fails
Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version:
* sarge netinstall iso, downloaded on 25 March 2005 from
* http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/alpha/rc3/sarge-alpha-netinst.iso
* file size/name: 159467520 Mar 25 19:32 sarge-alpha-netinst.iso
uname -a:
* Linux muro 2.4.27-2-generic #1 Tue Feb 15 01:56:26 UTC 2005 alpha GNU/Linux
Date: Mon 11 April 2005, 20:00 CET
Method:
* How did you install? From netinst CD
* What did you boot off? From netinst CD with aboot >>> boot dka0
* If network install, from where? ftp.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be
* Proxied? no
Machine: "Digital Personal workstation 500au"
Processor: alpha
Memory: 256 MByte
Root Device: SCSI
Root Size/partition table: ? (2 disks of 4.3 GByte)
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
[lspci -v : I give this detail since PCI seems to cause reboot failure later]
0000:00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 30)
0000:00:04.0 IDE interface: Silicon Image, Inc. (formerly CMD Technology Inc) PCI0646 (rev 01)
0000:00:07.0 Non-VGA unclassified device: Intel Corp. 82378ZB/IB, 82379AB (SIO, SIO.A) PCI to ISA Bridge (rev 43)
0000:00:14.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21052 (rev 02)
0000:01:08.0 SCSI storage controller: QLogic Corp. ISP1020 Fast-wide SCSI (rev 05)
0000:01:0a.0 VGA compatible controller: Texas Instruments TVP4020 [Permedia 2] (rev 01)
0000:00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 30)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 24
I/O ports at 9000 [size=128]
Memory at 000000000a540000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128]
Expansion ROM at 000000000a500000 [disabled] [size=256K]
0000:00:04.0 IDE interface: Silicon Image, Inc. (formerly CMD Technology Inc) PCI0646 (rev 01) (prog-if 80 [Master])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
I/O ports at 9080 [size=16]
0000:00:07.0 Non-VGA unclassified device: Intel Corp. 82378ZB/IB, 82379AB (SIO, SIO.A) PCI to ISA Bridge (rev 43)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
0000:00:14.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21052 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=248
I/O behind bridge: 00008000-00008fff
Memory behind bridge: 09000000-0a3fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 0a400000-0a4fffff
0000:01:08.0 SCSI storage controller: QLogic Corp. ISP1020 Fast-wide SCSI (rev 05)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 36
I/O ports at 8000 [size=256]
Memory at 000000000a020000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Expansion ROM at 000000000a400000 [disabled] [size=64K]
0000:01:0a.0 VGA compatible controller: Texas Instruments TVP4020 [Permedia 2] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Elsa AG GLoria Synergy
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 44
Memory at 000000000a000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
Memory at 0000000009000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M]
Memory at 0000000009800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M]
Expansion ROM at 000000000a410000 [disabled] [size=64K]
[lspci -n]
0000:00:03.0 0200: 1011:0019 (rev 30)
0000:00:04.0 0101: 1095:0646 (rev 01)
0000:00:07.0 0000: 8086:0484 (rev 43)
0000:00:14.0 0604: 1011:0021 (rev 02)
0000:01:08.0 0100: 1077:1020 (rev 05)
0000:01:0a.0 0300: 104c:3d07 (rev 01)
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: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Create file systems: [O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Install boot loader: [O]
Reboot: [E] ("soft reboot" fails, power cycle succeeds)
Comments/Problems:
* soft reboot fails. A consecutive power cycle worked fine.
(see below for more details).
* this installation causes a different ordering of files in
ls -al than what I am used to. I can set this to what I am used
to with
export LC_ALL="C"
Has this changed compared to woody install ? After the sarge
install, the status is
LANG=en_US
LANGUAGE=en_US:en_GB:en
* my /etc/apt/sources.list points standardly to "testing".
What will happen when sarge becomes "stable" ? Would it not
be better to use "sarge" in /etc/apt/sources already now ?
<Description of the install, in prose, and any thoughts, comments
and ideas you had during the initial install.>
Installing debian sarge on alpha with Debian-installer rc3
==========================================================
0. Materials:
-------------
* Debian-installer sarge netinstall iso, downloaded on
25 March 2005 from
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/alpha/rc3/sarge-alpha-netinst.iso
159467520 Mar 25 19:32 sarge-alpha-netinst.iso
* my machine is a "Digital Personal workstation au500"
1. How to stop the automatic boot
---------------------------------
My machine was initially configured to autoboot into linux on the first
SCSI driver (dkc0). My machine is using SRM and aboot.
Based on the SRM-HOWTO on
http://www.alphalinux.org/faq/SRM-HOWTO/srm-about.html
I figured out that CTRL-p is used to stop a command in SRM and revert
to aboot.
2. launching debian-installer in aboot
--------------------------------------
Once inside the aboot prompt, it is straightforward with
>>> show dev
Shows all devices. In my case, the IDE CDROM was on dka0, so I
needed to enter
>>> boot dka0
[this CDROM _is_ an IDE CDROM but still 'show dev' does show
it as a device on dka0 ... even if the HOWTO mentions DQ as the
standard device for (E)IDE disks]
And there goes debian-installer :-)
For some reason, I did not see the initial screen that asks for
expert mode or different kernels and gives help (as I am used
to seeing on x86 installs). Did I overlook it or was it not there ?
3. inside debian-installer
--------------------------
* all works great
(I selected all defaults, US English, standard QWERTY,
system detected Ethernet correctly and got through DHCP, ...)
* configuring disk partitioning with parted (mainly by hand,
works fine, now that I start to understand it)
* finalised base install without any problem
* disk is ejected and I removed disk
4. reboot
---------
* this is a "soft" reboot (I did not power cycle, just took
out the CD-ROM and then pressed <enter> as told by the installer).
* reboots (aboot, loading initrd, ...)
* after a short time, the screen stops and I see
[copied by hand, not entirely exact from the screen]
freeing pages 749:32767
reserving pages 749:750
Initial ramdisk at:0xff...
pci: cia revision 1 (pyxis)
On node 0 totalpages: 32767
zone(0): 32767 pages
zone(1): 0 pages
zone(2): 0 pages
Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/sda3
HWRPB cycle freq bogus. Estimated 499771572 Hz
Usinfg epoch = 2000
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 988 BogoMIPS
Memory: 250 M/262 M available (1.5 M kernel, 11.3 M reserved, 598k data, 168k init)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 524288 bytes)
Inode ... 16384 (order: 5 ...)
Mount ... 412 (order: 0 ...)
Buffer ... 8192 (order: 3 ...)
Page-cache 32768 (order: 5 ...)
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
pci: passed tb register update test
pci: passed sg loopback i/o read test
pic: passed pte write cache snoop test
[HANGS FOREVER , waited 15 minutes]
* keyboard does not respond (Numlock, Caps lock no reaction)
* SysReq does not repsond
* screen is still visible in VGA mode
* nothing else to see ...
5. reboot again (power cycle)
-----------------------------
* Ctrl-Alt-Del does not respond
* Power cycle the machine
* there is no CDROM in the machine
* coming up again, a few lines that fly by ...
ELSA Gloria Synergy ...Ver. 7.03.04
ea.e9.e8 ...
CPU0 booting
aboot: load initrd ...
Ext3 mounted ...
* all seems to work now :-)
6. configuring the base system
------------------------------
"Welcome ..." :-)
* GMT : yes
* Brussels
* add user
* apt-source --> kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be mirror
7. tasksel
----------
* selecting
* web server
* mail server
* database server
* DNS server
* downloading packages
* installing packages
* finished "Welcome ..."
8. Reboot again
---------------
* log in as root [OK]
# reboot
* works :-)
Thanks for this excellent experience. I never thought that
reinstalling my alpha would be that simple :-) (it was installed
with sid and I don't know of an efficient way to downgrade)
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