Bug#240372: marked as done ([sparc] [20040326] [businesscard] boot problem, then broken fstab)
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Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: 2004/03/26 daily sparc-sarge-businesscard.iso
uname -a: Linux opal 2.4.24-sparc32 #1 Fri Jan 30 16:04:55 EST 2004
sparc unknown
Date: 2004/03/04
Method: network installation, CD-ROM, mirror: sunsite.ualberta.ca, not
proxied
Machine: Sun SPARCstation 5
Processor: 25MHz(?) sun4m
Memory: 64 MB
Root Device: SCSI /dev/hda 1GB
Root Size/partition table:
scsi(0,3,0)part1 ext3 32MB /boot
scsi(0,3,0)part2 swap 128MB
scsi(0,3,0)part4 ext3 256MB /root
scsi(0,3,0)part5 ext3 256MB /var
scsi(0,3,0)part6 ext2 324MB /tmp
scsi(0,4,0)part1 ext3 2GB /usr
scsi(0,4,0)part2 reiser 2GB /home
Output of lspci: N/A
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked: [E]
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [ ]
Create file systems: [O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Install boot loader: [O]
Reboot: [E]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
Initial boot still requires explicity setting the root device:
"linux root=/dev/rd/0 rw". There was a comment, IIRC, yesterday on
#debian-boot which suggested that initrd doesn't have the right pivot.
Installed testing.
Reboot:
WARNING: Your /etc/fstab does not contain the fsck passno field. I will
kludge around things for you, but you should fix your /etc/fstab file as
soon as you can.
And then the boot hangs because the root filesystem is read-only
Note: today's sarge-sparc-netinst.iso fails to install because of a
missing initrd-tools package.
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Subject: Processed: Bug#240372: boot problem, then broken fstab
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Hi,
first and foremost: thank you for your bug report.=20
<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D240372>
I'm currently processing old installation reports, and since you
report some issues with the debian installer back in March, I thought I
wanted to let you know that these issue have been dealt with. Thus, I=20
will close this report.
> I completed an installation finally on this system using the 20040424=20
> businesscard iso from=20
> http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/. =20
>
> I still needed to boot using "linux rw". Add to silo.conf?
fixed
> In trying to set the mirror (ftp, sunsite.ualberta.ca) I ran into=20
> #242779 as the image had busybox-cvs-udeb version 20040402-1.=20
fixed
> In the previous install, I skipped the "Partition disks" and
> "Partition a hard drive" items and skipped to "Configure and mount
> partitions". This time I did actually do "Partition disks" and the
> fstab was created correctly.
The interface of the partitioner has changed a lot. You should no longer=20
run into the problem you mention.
Thank you very much for your time.
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