Bug#685186: IA64 (Itanium) Wheezy, ELILO installation failed
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: netinst CD
Image version: a self build netinst CD which bases on the data of
Wheezy beta-1 and the patch proposals of Bug#678883 and Bug#679545
Date: Aug. 17, 2012
Machine: Dell PowerEdge 3250
Processor: 2x Itanium Madison 1.5GHz 6M
Memory: 4G
Partitions:
Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn):
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [O]
Detect network card: [O]
Configure network: [O]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Clock/timezone setup: [O]
User/password setup: [O]
Install tasks: [O]
Install boot loader: [E]
Overall install: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
A big red dialog box appears:
ELILO installation failed
Running /usr/sbin/elilo failed with error code "1"
In var/log/installer/syslog you can find the lines:
Aug 17 11:48:21 in-target: Unpacking dosfstools (from
.../dosfstools_3.0.13-1_ia64.deb) ...
Aug 17 11:48:21 in-target: Selecting previously unselected package efibootmgr.
Aug 17 11:48:21 in-target: Unpacking efibootmgr (from
.../efibootmgr_0.5.4-3_ia64.deb) ...
Aug 17 11:48:22 in-target: Selecting previously unselected package elilo.
Aug 17 11:48:22 in-target: Unpacking elilo (from
.../archives/elilo_3.14-1_ia64.deb) ...
Aug 17 11:48:22 in-target: Processing triggers for man-db ...
Aug 17 11:48:23 in-target: Setting up dosfstools (3.0.13-1) ...
Aug 17 11:48:23 in-target: Setting up efibootmgr (0.5.4-3) ...
Aug 17 11:48:23 in-target: Setting up elilo (3.14-1) ...
Aug 17 11:48:26 kernel: [ 1030.536081] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft
Joliet Level 3
Aug 17 11:48:26 kernel: [ 1030.648534] ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
Aug 17 11:48:27 kernel: [ 1031.160221] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft
Joliet Level 3
Aug 17 11:48:27 kernel: [ 1031.266759] ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
Aug 17 11:48:27 kernel: [ 1031.458003] FAT-fs (sda1): IO charset
iso8859-1 not found
Aug 17 11:48:33 main-menu[221]: (process:9280): mount: wrong fs type,
bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
Aug 17 11:48:33 main-menu[221]: (process:9280): missing
codepage or helper program, or other error
Aug 17 11:48:33 main-menu[221]: (process:9280): In some cases
useful info is found in syslog - try
Aug 17 11:48:33 main-menu[221]: (process:9280): dmesg | tail or so
Aug 17 11:48:33 main-menu[221]: (process:9280):
Aug 17 11:48:33 main-menu[221]: (process:9280): elilo: An error
occured mounting /dev/sda1
Aug 17 11:48:33 main-menu[221]: WARNING **: Configuring
'elilo-installer' failed with error code 1
Aug 17 11:48:33 main-menu[221]: WARNING **: Menu item
'elilo-installer' failed.
Kind regards
Stephan Schreiber
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