Bug#243448: Package: installation-reports (network lost during and/or after install reboot)
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: 12 apr 2004 from
http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/i386/20040412/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
note: read somewhere it's better to be too detailed
than sketchy.. :) so everything i could think of and
then some is included here.
uname -a: Linux delta 2.4.25-1-386 #1 Tue Feb 24
08:11:13 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
Date: 12 apr 2004, started 22:30 -500
Method: boot from cd burned from downloaded iso, boot
device hdc
Machine: home-brew athlon xp, see after template text
for full specs
Processor: xp1600
Memory: 768mb
Root Device: ide hda
Root Size/partition table: (generated from cfdisk)
Partition Table for /dev/hda
---Starting--- ----Ending---- Start
Number of
# Flags Head Sect Cyl ID Head Sect Cyl Sector
Sectors
-- ----- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
----------- -----------
1 0x80 1 1 0 0x83 254 63 11
63 192717
2 0x00 0 1 12 0x83 254 63 1023
192780 79843050
3 0x00 0 0 0 0x00 0 0 0
0 0
4 0x00 0 0 0 0x00 0 0 0
0 0
Partition Table for /dev/hdb
---Starting--- ----Ending---- Start
Number of
# Flags Head Sect Cyl ID Head Sect Cyl Sector
Sectors
-- ----- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
----------- -----------
1 0x00 1 1 0 0x83 254 63 181
63 2923767
2 0x00 0 1 182 0x83 254 63 1023
2923830 36933435
3 0x00 0 0 0 0x00 0 0 0
0 0
4 0x00 0 0 0 0x00 0 0 0
0 0
output of df....
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available
Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 39294252 171464 37126712
1% /
tmpfs 387828 0 387828
0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1 90297 5123 80357
6% /boot
/dev/hdb2 18176688 32872 17220484
1% /home
/dev/fd0 1424 1320 104
93% /floppy
see below for filesystem types
Output of lspci: (verbose)
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 03)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 8
Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 2.0
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP] (prog-if 00 [Normal
decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01,
sec-latency=0
Memory behind bridge: dc000000-ddffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: d0000000-d7ffffff
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40)
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686/A PCI to
ISA Bridge
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus
Master IDE (rev 06) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
I/O ports at d000 [size=16]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller] (rev 1a) (prog-if 00
[UHCI])
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID) USB
Controller
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
I/O ports at d400 [size=32]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
0000:00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller] (rev 1a) (prog-if 00
[UHCI])
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID) USB
Controller
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
I/O ports at d800 [size=32]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
0000:00:07.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40)
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9
Capabilities: [68] Power Management version 2
0000:00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA
Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev
50)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.:
Unknown device 3300
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 3
I/O ports at dc00 [size=256]
I/O ports at e000 [size=4]
I/O ports at e400 [size=4]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
0000:00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek
Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
Subsystem: AOPEN Inc.: Unknown device 0027
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
I/O ports at ec00 [size=256]
Memory at de000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
[size=256]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia
Corporation NV11DDR [GeForce2 MX 100 DDR/200 DDR] (rev
b2) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32,
IRQ 10
Memory at dc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
[size=16M]
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [44] AGP version 2.0
output of dmesg....
Linux version 2.4.25-1-386 (herbert@gondolin) (gcc
version 3.3.2 (Debian)) #1 Tue Feb 24 08:11:13 EST
2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00
(usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000
(reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000
(reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000002fff0000
(usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000002fff0000 - 000000002fff3000 (ACPI
NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000002fff3000 - 0000000030000000 (ACPI
data)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000
(reserved)
767MB LOWMEM available.
ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0001000
found SMP MP-table at 000f66c0
hm, page 000f6000 reserved twice.
hm, page 000f7000 reserved twice.
hm, page 000f1000 reserved twice.
hm, page 000f2000 reserved twice.
On node 0 totalpages: 196592
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 192496 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 VIA694
) @ 0x000f80c0
ACPI: RSDT (v001 VIA694 MSI ACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD
0x00000000) @ 0x2fff3000
ACPI: FADT (v001 VIA694 MSI ACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD
0x00000000) @ 0x2fff3040
ACPI: MADT (v001 VIA694 MSI ACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD
0x00000000) @ 0x2fff5880
ACPI: DSDT (v001 VIA694 AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MSFT
0x0100000c) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Processor #0 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 16
Using ACPI for processor (LAPIC) configuration
information
Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4
Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
OEM ID: OEM00000 Product ID: PROD00000000 APIC at:
0xFEE00000
I/O APIC #2 Version 17 at 0xFEC00000.
Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
Processors: 1
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda2 ro
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 1394.447 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 2778.72 BogoMIPS
Memory: 772028k/786368k available (1079k kernel code,
13952k reserved, 465k data, 92k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8,
1048576 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7,
524288 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096
bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6,
262144 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8,
1048576 bytes)
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64
bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff
00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff
00000000 00000000
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ stepping 02
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Checking for popad bug... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
Setting 2 in the phys_id_present_map
...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 2 ... ok.
init IO_APIC IRQs
IO-APIC (apicid-pin) 2-0, 2-16, 2-17, 2-18, 2-19,
2-20, 2-21, 2-22, 2-23 not connected.
..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=0
number of MP IRQ sources: 20.
number of IO-APIC #2 registers: 24.
testing the IO APIC.......................
IO APIC #2......
.... register #00: 02000000
....... : physical APIC id: 02
....... : Delivery Type: 0
....... : LTS : 0
.... register #01: 00178011
....... : max redirection entries: 0017
....... : PRQ implemented: 1
....... : IO APIC version: 0011
.... register #02: 00000000
....... : arbitration: 00
.... IRQ redirection table:
NR Log Phy Mask Trig IRR Pol Stat Dest Deli Vect:
00 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
01 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 39
02 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 31
03 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 41
04 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 49
05 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 51
06 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 59
07 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 61
08 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 69
09 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 71
0a 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 79
0b 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 81
0c 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 89
0d 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 91
0e 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 99
0f 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 A1
10 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
11 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
12 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
13 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
14 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
15 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
16 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
17 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
IRQ to pin mappings:
IRQ0 -> 0:2
IRQ1 -> 0:1
IRQ3 -> 0:3
IRQ4 -> 0:4
IRQ5 -> 0:5
IRQ6 -> 0:6
IRQ7 -> 0:7
IRQ8 -> 0:8
IRQ9 -> 0:9
IRQ10 -> 0:10
IRQ11 -> 0:11
IRQ12 -> 0:12
IRQ13 -> 0:13
IRQ14 -> 0:14
IRQ15 -> 0:15
.................................... done.
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 1394.4776 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 265.6147 MHz.
cpu: 0, clocks: 2656147, slice: 1328073
CPU0<T0:2656144,T1:1328064,D:7,S:1328073,C:2656147>
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040116
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb590, last
bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: ACPI tables contain no PCI IRQ routing entries
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/0686] at 00:07.0
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I7,P3) -> 10
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I7,P3) -> 10
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I7,P2) -> 3
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I12,P0) -> 11
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B1,I0,P0) -> 10
Applying VIA southbridge workaround.
PCI: Enabling Via external APIC routing
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: 0x0
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
COMX: driver version 0.85 (C) 1995-1999 ITConsult-Pro
Co. <info@itc.hu>
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size
1024 blocksize
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind
65536)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
RAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 3540 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk...
|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/done.
Freeing initrd memory: 3540k freed
VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem).
Freeing unused kernel memory: 92k freed
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
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.
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:07.1
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes;
override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686b (rev 40) IDE UDMA100 controller
on pci00:07.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings:
hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings:
hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: Maxtor 4D040H2, ATA DISK drive
hdb: SAMSUNG SV2044D, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue f0826520, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask
0xffffffff)
blk: queue f082665c, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask
0xffffffff)
hdc: ATAPI CD-RW CW4801, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: DVD-ROM DDU1621, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: 80043264 sectors (40982 MB) w/2048KiB Cache,
CHS=79408/16/63, UDMA(100)
hdb: attached ide-disk driver.
hdb: 39862368 sectors (20410 MB) w/472KiB Cache,
CHS=39546/16/63, UDMA(66)
Partition check:
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: [PTBL]
[4982/255/63] p1 p2
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: [PTBL]
[2481/255/63] p1 p2
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,2),
internal journal
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f
hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdc: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache,
UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
hdd: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdd: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33)
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,66),
internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,EPP]
parport_pc: Via 686A parallel port: io=0x378
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI
devices
Via 686a/8233/8235 audio driver 1.9.1-ac3
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:07.5 to 64
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: VIA97 (Unknown)
via82cxxx: board #1 at 0xDC00, IRQ 3
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 09:07:29 Feb 24
2004
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd400, IRQ 10
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd800, IRQ 10
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller
Interface driver
uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
v1.1
Base System Installation Checklist:
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]
Create file systems: [O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Install boot loader: [O]
Reboot: [E] network gone on reboot;
booting to knoppix, gnoppix or morphix live cd's
confirm h/w and connection are ok.
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] =
didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
after running through the sarge d-i process a couple
dozen times since the release of d-i beta 2, with
varying degrees of sucess, i felt a detailed
installation log and installation-report was overdue.
also inspired because of some difficulties encountered
with various versions (beta 3 and newer dailies) since
last sunday evening. i wanted to fully document
everything in detail that was done.
for the most part, the d-i process has been fairly
smooth until this past sunday, problems i've run into
so far mainly have consisted of some odd or unexpected
dependancies, configuration hassles, things that
should be set-up during install aren't, etc.. however,
i will leave this report to this specific problem and
keep a running log of general observations, comments
and suggestions about the install process for a later
installation-report. i will just inject this much for
now: anaconda. model d-i after it, at least in it's
workflow and what it does/configures. you can keep the
text-based install, but do everything anaconda does
and in a similar order (including initial firewall
configuration; x/gnome/kde vid/sound/burning/etc
config).
what happened this time (and previously un-recorded
install runs, including 3 times this afternoon on my
other test system) is system rebooted back into d-i
and there's no network, even though i know the network
is functioning just properly. a gnoppix or similar
live cd was running just prior to this install run.
this same thing happens using beta3 of the installer,
just happens at a later point. system reboots into
installer fine, base system and any other desired
packages (here, typically gnome/gdm to get started
with.. or even when no extra packages are selected
during d-i) and system (ususally) works fine.... until
system is rebooted the first time. then this same
thing happens with same kernel boot messages.
(usb stuff is up here...)
Running 0dns-down to make sure resolv.conf is
ok...done.
Setting up IP spoofing protection: rp_filter.
Configuring network interfaces...SIOCSIFADDR: No such
device.
eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such
device.
SIOCSINETMASK: No such device
SIOCSIBRDADDR: No such device
eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such
device.
eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such
device.
done.
(serial stuff then clock follow...)
i have tried three daily builds of d-i burned between
27 mar and 12 apr, along with released beta 3. and in
one case, both business card and netinst versions.
i've swapped hardware in one of my two test systems
(both are based on same platform and motherboard; just
different ide configurations and the one not listed
below has a sblive) with no changes.
i am fairly certain it's with an update in the base
system that's retrieved automatically during install
(or included on a newer netinst cd)... if i install
from beta 3 netinst and then pull the plug on the
network after it's fetched package lists, but before
it downloads any base system updates, then the system
functions just fine (a bit bare, but reboots and
restarts dont affect anything). as soon as base system
packages are updated, a simple reboot means no more
network and the above error shows up during boot.
newer netinst cd's have network fail after initial
reboot back into d-i.
system configuration (for system used in this install
run)...
home-brew xp 1600 based system built around an msi
k7t-turbo2 (6330) motherboard, with 3x256mb memory (2
8 chip modules, 1 16 chip module in the third slot), 2
ide hard drives (40gb maxtor on hda, 20gb samsung on
hdb), 2 ide optical drives (48x msi cdrw on hdc, 16x
sony dvd rom on hdd), realtek 8139-based nic by aopen
(a "c" chipset i think) and a generic geforce2mx 32mb
agp video card. system bios is ms6330vms 3.6 (latest
from msi), set to optimized defaults with the
following modifications: boot order, serial port 1 set
manually to com1, serial port 2 disabled, and on-board
sound sb compatibility enabled. system is connected to
a 2port kvm with a samtron 77v 17 inch monitor, older
compaq 104key ps2 keyboard and a ms optical
intellmouse explorer (usb connected using ps2 adapter
to kvm). during all vital hardware detection
sequences, kvm is switched to the debian system
undergoing installation. internet connection is a t1,
connected to same 10/100 switch as the ascend router.
static addressing and registered name.
installation media used (obtained off the burned
cd)...
Debian GNU/Linux testing "Sarge" - Official NetInst
Snapshot i386 Binary-1 (20040412)
downloaded from...
http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/i386/20040412/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
cd created using...
xppro using roxio 5 platinum and a 24x lg cdrw to a
virgin 4x cdrw, burned at 4x. on a different, but
similarily equipped (the "other" test system with a
swapped-in hd w/ xp on it), computer.
boot method...
boot to the burned cd on hdc
detailed d-i walkthrough...
kernel boot prompt: hit enter
choose a language prompt: hit enter (en_us is default)
guessing the next screen is for keyboard layout
(dvorak is an option), however no intro text is shown,
the list takes up the entire screen vertically: hit
enter (us is default)
detecting hardware, loading installer components,
detecting dhcp (should fail, as static configuration
is needed).
retry dhcp: no
manual network configuration: ip, netmask, gateway, 2
name servers (space separating them), hostname, domain
(fyi: hostname.domain entered is a fully qualified
domain name) all entered ok
partitioner loaded ok... selected manual partitioning
blanked both hda and hdb partition tables and created
the following primary partitions...
hda1 100mb ext2 bootable mount point: /boot
hda2 remainder ext3 mount point: /
hdb1 1500mb swap (planning ahead for future memory
upgrade); installer rounded down to 1.4 gb
hdb2 remainder ext3 mount point: /home
kudos on the (new routine for) guessing of what a
newly created partition would be used for. i didn't
have to modify hda2 or hdb2 once created. :)
wrote changes to disk, d-i created file systems and
began base system installation.
time elapsed so far, about 15 minutes (includes
writing this log..) checking tty3, all is going ok.
base system installed.
install grub to mbr on hd0: hit enter to accept
cd ejected, hit enter at reboot prompt.
get a "can't synthesize root hub events" message at
the end of usb detection during startup. according to
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200302/msg03094.html
it can be ignored?
system booted. hit enter at welcome screen
gmt system time: no
select time zone: central
enter root password
enter first user account details
get system appears to not be connected to the internet
message. do you want to install ppp? heck no, we're
connected! switch to tty2 and login. sure enough,
can't ping a thing. network is unreachable or unknown
host errors. ifup -a reports already configured eth0
and lo devices, network config files look ok in /etc/
and /etc/network/
mount a floppy so i can create some text files for
uname, lspci, dmesg, partition tables, etc... to take
to a network-operational system to submit.
back to installer, want to gracefully exit and try
rebooting once. said no to ppp, selected http as apt
surce (drilled down to ftp.us.debian.org). got failed
to fetch errors. cancelled that section and got to the
main menu. skipped down to configure mta. stepped
through that config script and then finished to login
prompt. reboot from tty2 session. locked scroll during
bootup to get exact wording of kernel messages. login
and network doesnt work (as expected). shutdown.
leaving system intact (for a few days anyway) as-is in
case someone wants some further information or has
instructions for me to try.
end of install log - end of this report.
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