Re: can't partition disk?
I'm having the same problem here. No keyboard selection (minor inconvenience)
and no way to advance in the installation beyond and including the "Partition
a hard drive" step. I can access, format and mount the disk (in /target,
which I have to create myself), but the installation won't buy it, it will
just say that the system has no disk drive.
Do any PROM environment variables have to be set? Or a specific partitioning
made?
I'm attaching my dmesg and partition layout in the hope that they help.
> Yes,I get the same problem with the image 2005-02-05.. Also the problem
> with the keyboard layout , if I run kbd on command line I get a
> 'Segmentation Fault'. I didn't paid atention to this because I suspect
> that my O2 has a faulty DIMM.
>
> The use of /dev/scsi/... solve the problem with partitioning.
>
> Then I go to the next step, I have seen that mkfs.xfs is avaible and I try
> to format the first parition as XFS and works well, but the mount
> command can't read it ang gives a 'Invalid device' error.
>
> If I format the partition as ext3, mount works. It will be nice to
> provide XFS on the installer-image (only a suggestion).
>
> The problem is that debian-installer doesn't see the disks nor the
> partitons, even if I mounted it manually on the command line.
>
> I don't know how to continue the installation process. ¿Any
> workarround? ¿Or I have made some error?
Linux version 2.6.10-1-r5k-ip32 (root@hattusa) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-7)) #1 Wed Feb 2 06:13:10 CET 2005
ARCH: SGI-IP32
PROMLIB: ARC firmware Version 1 Revision 10
CRIME id a rev 1 at 0x0000000014000000
CRIME MC: bank 0 base 0x0000000000000000 size 128MiB
CRIME MC: bank 1 base 0x0000000008000000 size 128MiB
CRIME MC: bank 2 base 0x0000000050000000 size 128MiB
CRIME MC: bank 3 base 0x0000000058000000 size 128MiB
CRIME MC: bank 4 base 0x0000000060000000 size 32MiB
CRIME MC: bank 5 base 0x0000000062000000 size 32MiB
CRIME MC: bank 6 base 0x0000000064000000 size 32MiB
CRIME MC: bank 7 base 0x0000000066000000 size 32MiB
CPU revision is: 00002321
FPU revision is: 00002310
Determined physical RAM map:
memory: 0000000010000000 @ 0000000000000000 (usable)
memory: 0000000018000000 @ 0000000050000000 (usable)
Initial ramdisk at: 0xffffffff8060a000 (1827838 bytes)
On node 0 totalpages: 425984
DMA zone: 425984 pages, LIFO batch:16
Normal zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: rd_start=0x8060a000 rd_size=0x1be3fe debian-installer/framebuffer=false
Primary instruction cache 32kB, physically tagged, 2-way, linesize 32 bytes.
Primary data cache 32kB, 2-way, linesize 32 bytes.
R5000 SCACHE size 1024kB, linesize 32 bytes.
Synthesized TLB refill handler (31 instructions).
Synthesized TLB load handler fastpath (45 instructions).
Synthesized TLB store handler fastpath (45 instructions).
Synthesized TLB modify handler fastpath (44 instructions).
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 131072 bytes)
Calibrating system timer... 200 MHz CPU detected
Using 100.249 MHz high precision timer.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
CRIME memory error at 0x3fffffe0 ST 0x0400a828<INV,RE,REID=0x28,NONFATAL>
Dentry cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
Memory: 620544k/655360k available (3961k kernel code, 34564k reserved, 1486k data, 280k init, 0k highmem)
Calibrating delay loop... 199.16 BogoMIPS (lpj=99584)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Checking for 'wait' instruction... available.
Checking for the multiply/shift bug... no.
Checking for the daddi bug... no.
Checking for the daddiu bug... no.
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 1784k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
MACE PCI rev 1
SCSI subsystem initialized
MACEPCI: Master abort at 0x0000400c (C)
MACEPCI: Master abort at 0x00004000 (C)
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 512 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x0
Initializing Cryptographic API
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
fb0: SGI GBE rev 1 @ 0x16000000 using 4096kB memory
Generic RTC Driver v1.07
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 6 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
ttyS0 at MMIO 0x0 (irq = 53) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at MMIO 0x0 (irq = 59) is a 16550A
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
eth0: SGI MACE Ethernet rev. 1
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:01.0 (0046 -> 0047)
ahc_pci:0:1:0: Using left over BIOS settings
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:02.0 (0046 -> 0047)
ahc_pci:0:2:0: Using left over BIOS settings
scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36
<Adaptec aic7880 Ultra SCSI adapter>
aic7880: Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=0, 16/253 SCBs
elevator: using anticipatory as default io scheduler
Vendor: HP Model: 9.10GB A 80-B001 Rev: B001
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
scsi0:A:1:0: Tagged Queuing enabled. Depth 32
Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-5701TA Rev: 0167
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
scsi1 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36
<Adaptec aic7880 Ultra SCSI adapter>
aic7880: Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=0, 16/253 SCBs
st: Version 20041025, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256
SCSI device sda: 17773524 512-byte hdwr sectors (9100 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through
SCSI device sda: 17773524 512-byte hdwr sectors (9100 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1 p2 p9 p11
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
sr0: scsi-1 drive
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0
Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0, type 0
Attached scsi generic sg1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0, type 5
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: AT Raw Set 2 keyboard on mace/serio0
input: ImExPS/2 Logitech Explorer Mouse on mace/serio1
device-mapper: 4.3.0-ioctl (2004-09-30) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
u32 classifier
OLD policer on
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 16384 buckets, 128Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 524288 bind 65536)
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (8192 buckets, 65536 max) - 456 bytes per conntrack
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ipt_recent v0.3.1: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>. http://snowman.net/projects/ipt_recent/
arp_tables: (C) 2002 David S. Miller
Initializing IPsec netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 10
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
registering ipv6 mark target
NET: Registered protocol family 17
NET: Registered protocol family 15
SCTP: Hash tables configured (established 65536 bind 65536)
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 280k freed
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device 9800000067f3a800(sit0)
__ipv6_regen_rndid(idev=9800000066f4e400): cannot get EUI64 identifier; use random bytes.
init ip6-ip6: add_linklocal failed
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device ffffffff804bdbf0(lo)
ioctl32(fdisk:3687): Unknown cmd fd(3) cmd(40081272){00} arg(7fff7d50) on /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/disc
ioctl32(fdisk:3691): Unknown cmd fd(3) cmd(40081272){00} arg(7fff7d50) on /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/disc
ioctl32(fdisk:3692): Unknown cmd fd(3) cmd(40081272){00} arg(7fff7d50) on /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/disc
Command (m for help): p
Disk disc (SGI disk label): 64 heads, 32 sectors, 8678 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes
----- partitions -----
Pt# Device Info Start End Sectors Id System
1: part1 boot 130 8678 17507284 83 Linux native
2: part2 swap 2 129 262144 82 Linux swap
9: part3 0 1 4096 0 SGI volhdr
11: part4 0 8678 17773524 6 SGI volume
----- Bootinfo -----
Bootfile: /unix
----- Directory Entries -----
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