Bug#260936: Installer menu system is corrupt...
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: 2004-07-22 Image from:
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/i386/current/sarge-i386-
netinst.iso
uname -a: Linux debian 2.6.7-1-386 #1 Thu Jun 24 12:42:08 EDT 2004 i686
unknown
Date: 2004-07-22, 4:34pm CST
Method: I used the current sarge-i386-netinst.iso from the above location.
I used the "standard" install method using the Linux 2.6 Kernel. This was a
machine that was behind a firewall on my company LAN with non-proxied access
to the internet.
Machine: IBM IntelliStation Z Pro 6221-1PU
Processor: Dual Intel Xeon 2.4 Ghz
Memory: 1.5 GB
Root Device: Root device was a Hardware RAID Array (Level 5), Adaptec 2120S
w/ 3x Seagate 73.4GB U320SCSI 68PIN 10K SEA-ST373307LW
Root Size/partition table: ...
File System: ext3
Mount point: /
Bootable flag: on
Size 146.7 GB
Output of lspci:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. E7505 Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
0000:00:00.1 Class ff00: Intel Corp. E7000 Series RAS Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. E7000 Series Processor to AGP
Controller (rev 03) 0000:00:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. E7000 Series Hub
Interface B PCI-to-PCI Bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:02.1 Class ff00: Intel Corp. E7000 Series Hub Interface B PCI-to-PCI
Bridge RAS Controller (rev 03) 0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp.
82801DB (ICH4) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) USB2 EHCI Controller
(rev 02) 0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB/EB/ER Hub
interface to PCI Bridge (rev 82) 0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp.
82801DB (ICH4) LPC Bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) Ultra ATA 100 Storage
Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBM (ICH4) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) AC'97
Audio Controller (rev 02) 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox
Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP (rev 85) 0000:02:1c.0 PIC: Intel Corp. 82870P2
P64H2 I/OxAPIC (rev 04) 0000:02:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82870P2 P64H2
Hub PCI Bridge (rev 04) 0000:02:1e.0 PIC: Intel Corp. 82870P2 P64H2 I/OxAPIC
(rev 04) 0000:02:1f.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82870P2 P64H2 Hub PCI Bridge
(rev 04) 0000:03:01.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme
BCM5703X Gigabit Ethernet (rev 02) 0000:03:02.0 RAID bus controller: Adaptec
AAC-RAID (rev 01) 0000:04:02.0 PCI bridge: Hint Corp HB6 Universal PCI-PCI
bridge (non-transparent mode) (rev 15) 0000:05:08.0 USB Controller: NEC
Corporation USB (rev 41)
0000:05:08.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41)
0000:05:08.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 02) 0000:05:0c.0
FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller
(PHY/Link)
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: [E]
Reboot: [ ]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
I installed using an image located at:
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/i386/current/sarge-i386-
netinst.iso
The date of this image is: 7-22-2004
The CD booted fine. I ran the following at the boot prompt:
Press F1 for help, or ENTER to boot: linux26
The very first menu asking to "[!!] Choose language" displayed very funny.
Instead of a gray box with all the choices in it, it gave a grey box with
the right edge missing some of the grey... :) It's hard to explain...
something like this:
[!!] Choose language |
|
Choose a language |
|
Albanian - Albanian |
Arabic - |
Basque - Euskaraz |
Bosnian - Bosanski |
Bulgarian - |
Catalan - Catal[ # |
Chinese (Simplified) - () |
Chinese (Traditional) - () |
Croation - Hrvatski |
Czech - etina |
Danish - Dansk |
Dutch - Nederlands |
English - English |
Farsi - |
Finnish - Suomeksi |
French - Frantais |
Galician - Galego |
German - Deutsch |
Greek - |
|
|
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)))))))))))))))))BIG BLACK LINE HERE)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
Some of the letters that are typed above, i.e. under the heading "French", I
have typed "Frantais", but there is no "t" displaying, it is an "i" with a
"~" above it. Please excuse my ignorance of the correct naming of the
letter. Where you see a blank, it displays nothing, where in the last image
I tested "7-20-2004" it displayed the actual writing in the actual language
that was representative of it's English equivalent.
As I continued through the menus, it displayed similar "right edge"
problems.
The other problem I had was that GRUB would not install properly to my RAID
array. As mentioned above, I have a Adaptec 2120S RAID Controller hooked up
to 3x Seagate 73.4 GB U320SCSI 68PIN 10K SEA-ST373307LW drives. The drives
are configured into a single RAID5 Volume and detected by the installer as
such. However, grub fails to load with a "Fatal Error"
In the third terminal it is showing the same error I had on earlier di
snapshots, "The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly." I already have
a bug report on this issue: #259297,
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=259297
I just wanted to submit a bug on the "graphical" menu driven installer
display errors.
Michael
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