d-i on Alpha: failed installation
G'day,
I just attempted an installation on an alpha with a daily 'business
card' image from yesterday. After giving kernel boot parameters as
vorlon described, the initial boot was a success. The SCSI controller
and attached drives were detected. Unfortunately, some devfs weirdness
seemed to prevent the installer from seeing the CDROM drive: it showed
up in /dev/scsi/... but not in /dev/cdroms. Mounting the CD by hand
worked, but d-i still refused to recognise it. Since the driver for the
machine's network cards was on the CD, the installation got no further.
I was using a serial console, which mostly worked, although it seemed a bit
peculiar for it to ask for a keyboard layout, and the screen redraw was
significantly slower than it needed to be.
Some relevant output from capturing the serial console:
~ # ls -l /dev/cdroms/
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 34 Jan 1 1970 cdrom0 -> ���scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd
~ # ls -l /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0
brw-rw-rw- 1 root root 11, 0 Jan 1 1970 cd
~ # mount /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /cdrom
mount: Mounting /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 on /cdrom failed: No such file or directory
~ # mount /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd /cdrom
mount: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd is write-protected, mounting read-only
It looks to me like the first three characters in the link in
/dev/cdroms should have been '../'. In case they get mangled by email,
a hex dump is:
00000040 3e 20 c3 bf c3 bf c3 bf 73 63 73 69 2f 68 6f 73 |> ......scsi/hos|
Hmm... six bytes... utf8 weirdness happening somewhere?
Also, I saw a lot of suspicious-looking "unaligned trap" kernel messages. I've
included a complete dmesg output at the end of this message in case it helps
anyone.
Cameron.
~ # dmesg
Linux version 2.4.22-1-generic (herbert@gondolin) (gcc version 3.2.3 20030221 (Debian prerelease)) #8 Sat Oct 4 14:32:55 EST 2003
Booting GENERIC on Avanti using machine vector Avanti from SRM
Command line: ramdisk_size=16384 root=/dev/ram0 devfs=mount,dall console=ttyS0
memcluster 0, usage 1, start 0, end 249
memcluster 1, usage 0, start 249, end 8191
memcluster 2, usage 1, start 8191, end 8192
freeing pages 249:384
freeing pages 733:8191
reserving pages 733:734
Initial ramdisk at: 0xfffffc0003c08000 (3425779 bytes)
On node 0 totalpages: 8191
zone(0): 8191 pages.
zone(1): 0 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: ramdisk_size=16384 root=/dev/ram0 devfs=mount,dall console=ttyS0
Using epoch = 2000
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 458.36 BogoMIPS
Memory: 56664k/65528k available (1603k kernel code, 6872k reserved, 454k data, 192k init)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 131072 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 65536 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 8192 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 8192 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 65536 bytes)
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
pci: enabling save/restore of SRM state
sio_pci_route: PIRQ original 0xb058009 new 0xb0a0e0f
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
initialize_kbd: Keyboard reset failed, no ACK
keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?(ed)
keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?(f4)
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 2.88M
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 8Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 3345k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 192k freed
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb.c: registered new driver serial
usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered for Generic
usbserial.c: USB Serial Driver core v1.4
main-menu(252): unaligned trap at 0000020000044eb0: 0000000120014dbc 2d 31
main-menu(252): unaligned trap at 0000020000044eb4: 0000000120014dc4 2d 9
main-menu(252): unaligned trap at 000002000004183c: 0000000120015fec 2d 31
main-menu(252): unaligned trap at 0000020000041840: 0000000120015fdc 2d 9
main-menu(252): unaligned trap at 0000000120002838: 000000012001713c 29 9
main-menu(252): unaligned trap at 0000000120002844: 000000012001c144 29 2
main-menu(252): unaligned trap at 0000000120002880: 000000012001c13c 29 9
main-menu(252): unaligned trap at 0000020000041fc8: 0000000120014dc4 29 3
kbd-chooser(402): unaligned trap at 0000020000041fc8: 0000000120028be4 29 3
kbd-chooser(402): unaligned trap at 0000020000041fc8: 0000000120028be4 29 3
main-menu(252): unaligned trap at 0000000120002838: 00000001200199ec 29 9
main-menu(252): unaligned trap at 0000000120002844: 000000012001d574 29 2
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 6, function 0
ncr53c8xx: 53c810a detected
ncr53c810a-0: rev 0x11 on pci bus 0 device 6 function 0 irq 11
ncr53c-0: ID 7, Fast-10, Parity Checking
scsi0 : ncr53c8xx-3.4.3b-20010512
Vendor: DEC Model: RZ26F (C) DEC Rev: 1Q04
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Vendor: COMPAQ Model: CD-ROM CR-503BCQ Rev: 1.1c
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ide: late registration of driver.
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
ncr53c-0-<0,*>: FAST-5 SCSI 5.0 MB/s (200 ns, offset 8)
SCSI device sda: 2050860 512-byte hdwr sectors (1050 MB)
Partition check:
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
ncr53c-0-<1,*>: target did not report SYNC.
sr0: scsi-1 drive
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
main-menu(252): unaligned trap at 0000020000041fc8: 0000000120014dc4 29 3
main-menu(252): unaligned trap at 0000020000041fc8: 0000000120014dc4 29 3
main-menu(252): unaligned trap at 0000020000041fc8: 0000000120014dc4 29 3
main-menu(252): unaligned trap at 00000001200030c0: 00000001200188dc 29 18
main-menu(252): unaligned trap at 00000001200018d4: 000000012001899c 29 1
main-menu(252): unaligned trap at 00000001200018d4: 000000012001a29c 29 1
main-menu(252): unaligned trap at 00000001200018d4: 0000000120018d5c 29 1
main-menu(252): unaligned trap at 00000001200018d4: 0000000120019c5c 29 1
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