INSTALL REPORT with 2004-01-09 netinst, failed
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: http://gluck.debian.org/~manty/testing/netinst/i386/20040109/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
uname -a:
Date: 2004-01-12
Method: boot off CD, "net" boot, proxied http, sarge install
Machine: custom
Processor: celeron 350
Memory: XXX
Root Device: IDE (hda1)
Root Size/partition table: single 9GB root, XXX swap
#Output of lspci:
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD: [ ]
Load installer modules: [ ]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [E]
Create file systems: [O]
Mount partitions: [ ]
Install base system: [E]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Reboot: [ ]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
Partition hard drives:
if I just follow the steps lineraly, no problem. At first, I had hit
cancel at some point before (have to check and reproduce), and the HD
selection menu was incomplete (did not mention the probbedname of the
drive, only the devfs name, and no "terminate" choice). When
selecting the drive, all I could see was the blue background - could
Ctrl-C out of it, but could not achieve partitionning at all.
Install base system:
undefined symbol __libc_stack_end from "mount" when run to mount
/target/proc in the chroot. The same happens with /bin/sh when
running "chroot /target" in VC#2. This symbol was IIRC exported by
old glibc dropped when the cleaned up the exported symbols from
undocumented/internal ones, so I suppose the glibc on the CD is a
post-cleanup one, while the problematic binaries (mount, sh) were
built on an old glibc.
Now why did they get this symbol ? I know libgc had it, but that was
just because its build procedure explicitely tested for it and used it
if available. And the current /bin/mount I have on another sarge box
does not have this symbol.
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Yann Dirson <Yann.Dirson@fr.alcove.com> http://www.alcove.com/
Technical support manager Responsable de l'assistance technique
Senior Free-Software Consultant Consultant senior en Logiciels Libres
Debian developer (dirson@debian.org) Développeur Debian
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