Continuous reboot after install (unstable 1/30/04)
--- Matt and Karin Lawson <lawson08@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 10:03:48 -0800 (PST)
> From: Matt and Karin Lawson <lawson08@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Continuous reboot after install (unstable
> 1/30/04)
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> First, congrats with the work on the new installer.
> It's a major improvement. Specifically, this one
> detected and works with my network card. I spent
> about 10 hours with the Woody installer setting io
> and
> irqs and never got that far.
>
> Using the Jan 30 unstable installation (113mb
> netinstall cd), the basic install seemed to work up
> through the reboot.
>
> Then, when it reboots and starts asking for root
> password, user accounts, etc. (debconf is it?) the
> machine will run for maybe 1 minute and reboot. It
> doesn't matter if I step through the utility and get
> as far as I can (one time I got to where it was
> actually in the middle of an apt-get) or if I just
> let
> it sit there or if I boot into recovery mode. After
> a
> fixed amount of time the machine reboots no matter
> what you do. Needless to say, I can't collect much
> information from it. I did look at dmesg and didn't
> see any smoking gun.
>
> The reason I tried unstable is because the 'testing'
> version would get to "installing base system" and
> seemed to complete but then said "base installation
> failed" with nothing in the error logs except
> "/usr/bin/awk already exists" or something like
> that.
>
> Back to the unstable experience, the things I
> noticed
> during the installation that seemed strange to me:
>
> - It never prompted me for a kernel. It just picked
> one. Therefore I can't try picking a different one.
>
> It installed the kernel during the "install base
> system" step. Or have these been combined now?
>
> - It never prompted me for Ethernet setup. The way
> I'm installing it is over Ethernet card which is
> hooked up through a crossover cable to a Windows
> machine with connection sharing, then the Windows
> has
> a modem that it uses to connect to dialup. The
> connection seems to work fine (The Linux box can
> contact and download stuff). But it never prompted
> me
> for ip address,etc (you have to set it to static
> 192.168.0.2). Yet I DID have to set this up during
> a
> previous install attempt. That makes me suspect
> that
> it's still reading some old config information from
> a
> previous install attempt. I did delete and
> re-partition the hard drive, which I *thought* would
> remove all old data...
>
> Since then I've tried turning off the "pnp OS" and
> "ps/2 mouse support" setting in the BIOS to no
> effect.
> I'm just shooting in the dark now.
>
> So is this a kernel panic or what? Any suggestions
> on
> what to do? Suggestions welcome. Thanks.
>
> - Matt
>
>
> Computer hardware setup:
>
> Emachines 533id
>
> Celeron 533
>
> 192 MB memory
>
> Brand-new 120G WD Hard drive with several failed
> Debian instation attempt having previously occurred.
>
> Samsung DVD/CD player (came with it)
>
> HP CD-Writer plus (added)
>
> Floppy drive (came with)
>
> Linksys Network Everywhere NC100 NIC (added) uses
> tulip driver I think (added)
>
> Creative Modem Blaster 56K modem (added, replaced
> the
> Conexant that came with it). Uses Rockwell HCF 56k
> chipset deviceid=1005
>
> Intel 82810 Graphics (included on-board)
>
> Cirrus Logic CS4614/22/24 SoundFusion audio
> (included
> on-board)
>
> USB (included on-board)
>
> Microsoft cordless mouse (added)
>
>
>
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