Bug#242444: Installation Report: beta3 grub failed with xfs
Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: beta 3, from gluck
uname -a: Linux annuminas 2.6.4 #3 Sun Mar 28 14:35:45 CEST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
(has been replaced by a customized kernel, to lazy to boot ther original one)
Date: 28th of March, arround 4pm
Method:
> How did you install?
I used the 100M netinst-iso dated from ... well... 15th of march I think
> What did you boot off?
bootet from ide-cd SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-348B
> If network install, from where?
Local mirror, synced on the same day
> Proxied?
No.
Machine: Selfbuilded barebone SN41G2 from shuttle
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+
Memory: 992 MB (1024MB - 32 MB shared video ram)
Root Device: IDE, Maxtor 4D060H3, connected to hda
Root Size/partition table:
/dev/hda1 * 1 851 6835626 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 852 7474 53199247+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 852 973 979933+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda6 974 7474 52219251 83 Linux
Output of lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (different version?) (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 ISA Bridge (rev a3)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce2 SMBus (MCP) (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Ethernet Controller (rev a1)
00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce MultiMedia audio [Via VT82C686B] (rev a2)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97 Audio Controler (MCP) (rev a1)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 External PCI Bridge (rev a3)
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2)
00:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): nVidia Corporation nForce2 FireWire (IEEE 1394) Controller (rev a3)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (rev a2)
01:06.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
01:06.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX - nForce GPU] (rev a3)
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O] could be better
Create file systems: [O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Install boot loader: [E] failed with xfs
Reboot: [O]
Comments/Problems:
All in all in worked very well. It even detecked that integraded network card
(of which I thought it would need a kernel patch to get it working).
I tried the automatic partitioning, with a seperate /home partition, worked
good, however sometimes I need quite some memory, so the ~500M swap partition
was to small. When I tried to make one partition smaller, I got a little bit
confused, that the installer created the the filesystems at once, at not after
I finished with my enlarged swap partition.
Well, and since I was in this menu, I tried xfs filesystems. I got the warning
that grub might get confused, since I later wanted to install lilo, I ignored
that warning. When the installer tried to install grub, it took quite some
time... after I didn't saw any activitie for 10 minutes and the progess bar
didn't advanced a single pixl, I rebootedand used used ext3 which worked
without any problems.
Keep up the good work,
Alexander
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