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: Sat, July 24, 11:30pm
Method: Booted via SRM from the CD
Machine: AlphaServer 2100 4/275
Processor: EV45
Memory: 512MB
Root Device: DAC960 RAID5 /dev/rd/disc0/disc
Root Size/partition table:
/dev/rd/disc0/disc - 30.0 GB DAC960 RAID controller
#1 1.0 MB K aboot
#2 100.0 MB F ext2 /boot
#3 512.0 MB F swap swap
#4 29.4 GB F ext3 /
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: [O]
Install base system: [E]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Reboot: [ ]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
I made it through everything up to the kernel installation - which is
the first time I've gotten that far with this setup, so things are
looking promising!
Since it's only recently been possible to use the DEC OEM'd DAC960
controllers during the debian installation, this may be something that's
just never been caught.
I think this may be related to an earlier bug - way back in the day,
mkinitrd would fail on cciss and dac960 controllers because it was
looking for something like /dev/rd/disc0/part4, and those controllers
used devices of the form /dev/[cciss|rd]/c0d0p4. However, now only
/dev/rd/disc0/part4 exists, although mkinitrd is now looking for
/dev/rd/c0d0p4. From the debug logs:
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
Suggested packages:
kernel-doc-2.4.26 kernel-source-2.4.26
The following NEW packages will be installed:
kernel-image-2.4.26-1-smp
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 16.6MB of archives.
After unpacking 58.7MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org sarge/main kernel-image-2.4.26-1-smp
2.4.26-2 [16.6MB]
Fetched 16.6MB in 1m20s (207kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package kernel-image-2.4.26-1-smp.
(Reading database ... 7274 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking kernel-image-2.4.26-1-smp (from
.../kernel-image-2.4.26-1-smp_2.4.26-2_alpha.deb) ...
Setting up kernel-image-2.4.26-1-smp (2.4.26-2) ...
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.4.26-1-smp/kernel/drivers/char/scx200.o
/usr/sbin/mkinitrd: device /dev/rd/c0d0p4 is not a block device
Failed to create initrd image.
dpkg: error processing kernel-image-2.4.26-1-smp (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
kernel-image-2.4.26-1-smp
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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