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Bug#261306: Partitioning problem on alpha



Package: installation-reports

Debian-installer-version: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/alpha/20040724/sarge-alpha-businesscard.iso
uname -a: Linux buddha 2.4.26-1-generic #2 Sat May 1 16:31:16 EST 2004 alpha unknown
Date: 
Method: <How did you install?  What did you boot off?  If network
      install, from where?  Proxied?>

Machine: AlphaServer 2100 4/275
Processor: EV45
Memory: 512MB
Root Device: DAC960 RAID5 /dev/rd/disc0/disc
Root Size/partition table:

 I allowed partman to use the entire drive, and this is what it gave me:
 /dev/rd/disc0/disc - 30.0 GB DAC960 RAID controller
      #1   1.0 MB   K aboot
      #2  29.5 GB   F ext3       /
      #3 512.0 MB   F swap       swap

Output of lspci:

PCI devices found:
  Bus  0, device   0, function  0:
    Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21040 [Tulip] (rev 35).
      IRQ 32.
      Master Capable.  Latency=32.
      I/O at 0x9400 [0x947f].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x1109000 [0x110907f].
  Bus  0, device   1, function  0:
    SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c810 (rev 2).
      IRQ 33.
      Master Capable.  Latency=32.
      I/O at 0x9000 [0x90ff].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x1108000 [0x11080ff].
  Bus  0, device   2, function  0:
    Non-VGA unclassified device: Intel Corp. 82375EB (rev 4).
      Master Capable.  Latency=32.
  Bus  0, device   6, function  0:
    RAID bus controller: Mylex Corporation DAC960P (rev 2).
      IRQ 34.
      Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=4.
      I/O at 0x9480 [0x94ff].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x110a000 [0x110a07f].


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:       [E?]
Install base system:    [ ]
Install boot loader:    [E]
Reboot:                 [ ]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Comments/Problems:

Partitioning worked (the daily from 20040723 had gotten into a loop,
apparently running into problems writing the partition table to disk),
and the root filesystem and swap space were created.  After that, it
popped up a message telling me that I hadn't left space for aboot and
that it couldn't install it for me (and thus I wouldn't be able to boot
from SRM if I continued).  Since the partitioner had explicitly left
space for aboot, some sort of confusion must be afoot.


-- 
Nathan Poznick <kraken@wang-fu.org>

The only people who never fail are those who never try. - Ilka Chase

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