failed install report on a brand new blade server
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: debian installer beta2
uname -a: it didn't succeed
Date: 16-01-04
Method: boot from usb-cdrom
Machine: ibm blade server
Processor: 2 intel xeon smp
Memory: 1Gb
Root Device: it would be /dev/hda but it never arrived
Root Size/partition table:
Output of lspci:
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [ ]
Config network: [ ]
Detect CD: [E]
Load installer modules: [ ]
Detect hard drives: [ ]
Partition hard drives: [ ]
Create file systems: [ ]
Mount partitions: [ ]
Install base system: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Reboot: [ ]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
it boots ok but when it tries to detect the cdrom unit it fails. I tries
again and I guess that it would ask for a floppy with drivers, but since the
floppy is also usb is not deteded.
That's the end of the installation process becouse since the cdrom is not
installed it can't continue. I am stuck and I am thinking on forgeting to
install debian at all on that machine.
I have tried with pxe following the tutorials (
http://lists.debian.org/debian-testing/2003/debian-testing-200311/msg00098.html
) and http://www.debianplanet.com/node.php?id=818 but it didn't work either.
The dhcp, pxe and tftp is working but it didn't load the kernel.
I am out of ideas after expending two days on this issue and looking during
hours over google. Any suggestion or help would be appreciated.
Thank you very much for your work.
Jose Blanca
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