Bug#220936: installation-reports: mostly successfill install, ide-scsi emulation made CD unaccessible, CD not bootable in _my_ drive
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Severity: normal
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Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: 2003-11-09 http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/beta-1/sarge-i386-netinst.iso 118,161,408 bytes
uname -a: Linux localhost 2.4.22-1-386 #9 Sat Oct 4 14:30:39 EST 2003 i586 GNU/Linux
Date: 2003-11-14 07:08 CET till 2003-11-15 13:15 CET
Method: booting from sarge-i386-netinst in my standard IDE CD-ROM drive
Machine: ASUS TX97-X
Processor: Intel Pentium MMX 200 MHz
Memory: 256 MB
Root Device: /dev/hdb6 IBM IC35L040AVER07-0 (you should specify does "name of device" mean something like /dev/hdb6 or the model name of the hard drive)
Root Size/partition table:
Partition Table for /dev/hdb
---Starting--- ----Ending---- Start Number of
# Flags Head Sect Cyl ID Head Sect Cyl Sector Sectors
-- ----- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----------- -----------
1 0x00 1 1 0 0x83 254 63 248 63 4000122
2 0x00 0 0 0 0x00 0 0 0 0 0
3 0x00 0 1 313 0x05 254 63 1023 5028345 36820980
4 0x00 0 0 0 0x00 0 0 0 0 0
5 0x00 1 1 313 0x83 254 63 1023 63 32001417
6 0x00 254 63 1023 0x83 254 63 1023 1 128519
7 0x00 254 63 1023 0x83 254 63 1023 1 2088449
8 0x00 254 63 1023 0x83 254 63 1023 1 2088449
9 0x00 254 63 1023 0x83 254 63 1023 1 514079
localhost:~# df -Tm
Filesystem Type 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdb6 ext2 61 39 20 67% /
/dev/hdb9 ext2 244 1 231 1% /tmp
/dev/hdb7 ext3 1004 106 848 12% /usr
/dev/hdb8 reiserfs 1020 42 979 5% /var
/dev/hda7 ext2 306 245 45 85% /home
/dev/hda1 ext2 62 55 4 95% /mnt
Output of lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 430TX - 82439TX MTXC (rev 01)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 01)
00:01.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:01.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:01.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 01)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
00:0c.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. ViRGE/DX or /GX (rev 01)
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked: [E]
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD: [E]
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: [O]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
Initial boot worked: [E]
This CD didn't want to boot in my CD-ROM drive at all. It acts exactly
as if there was no CD in the drive). It is a standard ATAPI CD-ROM
SAMSUNG SC-148P connected to secondary slave. I have never any problems
with booting any bootable CDs in this computer and this drive before,
and older versions (snapshots 20030817 and 20030928) of
sarge-i386-netinst booted flawlessly here. I have recorded the beta-1
CD three times: twice on a CDR and once on a CD-RW. All of them booted
flawlessly both on a Sony PCGA-CD5 PCMCIA CD drive, and on a Sony
Firewire CD-RW/DVD drive (in which all three CD's where recorded, once
under one non-libre OS, and twice under Debian GNU/Linux with cdrecord)
in a Sony PCG-C1MV notebook. All of them acted the same in my Smasung
SC-148P CD-ROM drive (as if there was no CD in the drive). What I did,
is that I booted from an older sarge-i386-netinst CD, and at the LILO
boot: prompt, I change the CD to the new one (beta-1) and it worked.
Nobody noticed :)
Detect CD: [E]
The CD worked correctly until the first reboot after the first part of
the installation. Then the CD drive doesn't work.
I have no idea why it installed some kind of a IDE-SCSI CDROM emulation,
during bootup it displays:
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
hdd: attached ide-scsi driver.
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: SAMSUNG Model: CD-ROM SC-148P Rev: PS01
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
This doesn't work at all, I don't know why it installed such a wierd
thing as IDE-SCSI emulation, the CD-ROM drive always worked correctly
under a standard IDE driver.
If I try to mount it, I get:
localhost:~# mount /cdrom
ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0)
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 0
ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0)
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 2
ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0)
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 4
ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0)
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 6
ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0)
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 64
ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0)
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 66
ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0)
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 68
ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0)
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 70
ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0)
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 72
ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0)
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 74
ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0)
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 76
ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0)
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 78
/dev/hdd: Input/output error
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
Specifying the filesystem type doesn't help at all:
localhost:~# mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdd /cdrom
ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0)
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 64
isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=16:40, iso_blknum=16, block=32
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdd,
or too many mounted file systems
(could this be the IDE device where you in fact use
ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?)
Why don't drop LILO support from the installer and use only GRUB? I
think noone will ever want to install such a stupid bootloader as LILO
when GRUB is available. I don't like that it tries to install LILO
without even asking if I prefer GRUB. I made it not touch my drive with
LILO by saying /dev/hda333 to the question where do I want to install
LILO, and then I was given the posibility to install GRUB. If you really
don't want to drop LILO, just make a screen: Which bootloader do you
want to use? GRUB/LILO. And make GRUB the default (when user taps Enter
without pressing arrows...)
The same thing with dselect versus aptitude. I think aptitude should be
installed by default, and there shouldn't even be an option to install
dselect, it's so terrible, that I think many people installing Debian
the first time will throw away the Debian CD, and order Mandrake or some
other crap, when they see such a terrible installation program as
dselect.
The last problem it that it called my host "localhost" while it asked
for the hostname, and I entered "tarnica" there. I'm pretty sure I did
that.
A nice thing to have would be the possibility to save all the
installation options in a config file, and be able to use that when
installing some time later, doing a restore after a catastrophe, or
while installing on a identical PC. That config file should also say
which packages I have chosen to install, and one should be able to
update it later with 'dpkg --get-selections' output later.
Another option I'd apprecieate would be a question do we want a
non-UTF-8 or a UTF-8 setup. The UTF-8 will setup everything, including
the consoles (unicode_start, a console Unicode font, and everything else
needed) in UTF-8 mode.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux tarnica.ctnet.pl 2.4.22 #1 Wed Oct 29 14:01:21 CET 2003 i586
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8
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