Bug#250800: marked as done (sarge_d-i mips netboot installation)
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Debian-installer-version: sarge_d-i 20040524, mips netinst cd
uname -a: Linux ephemeral 2.4.25-r4k-ip22 #1 Thu Apr 15 20:46:28 BST 2004 mips GNU/Linux
Date: 2004-05-24
Method: netinst (CD) install, SCSI CD-ROM
Machine: SGI Indy
Processor: MIPS R4600, 133 MHz
Memory: 64 MB
Root Device: 4 GB SCSI hard disk
Root Size/partition table:
/dev/sda1 - 3.8 GB root, ext3
/dev/sda2 - 200 MB swap
(also a small volhdr partition #9 at the start of the disk)
Output of lspci: n/a
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: [E]
Create file systems: [O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Install boot loader: [O]
Reboot: [O]
Comments/Problems:
The initial language selection screen still doesn't display accented
characters correctly.
Selecting the "single partition" option in the partitioner correctly
displays an ext3 root as partition 1 and swap as partition 2. However,
the confirmation screen shows swap as partition 17. Attempting to mount
the swap space then fails, since there is no partition 17 - the dialog box
error message displays no partition number at all. ("The attempt to mount
a file system with type swap in SCSI1 (0,5,0), partition # at none failed.")
No errors appear on vt3, and the only informative notice on vt4 is a
standard "Unable to find swap-space signature" warning.
The automatically generated partition table is not correct. A partial
transcription:
Pt# Start End Id System
1: 1 967 3 SGI raw <-- should be type 83 (Linux native)
2: 968 1018 0 SGI volhdr <-- should be type 82 (swap)
11: 0 1018 6 SGI volume
Additionally, there should be a partition 9 of type SGI volhdr at the
beginning of the disk -- this is where the bootloader must be installed.
Five cylinders is a typical size.
Going back to the main menu and selecting the old (fdisk) partitioning
also failed - attempting to delete partitions crashed fdisk immediately with
a floating point exception. Seems like some of the issues encountered in
#238363 and friends haven't been entirely resolved....
After using dd to zero out the partition table, fdisk was able to create
partitions successfully.
The remainder of the installation completed without problems, including the
new firmware variables reminder in arcboot-installer (thanks Thiemo!).
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