Bug#240713: marked as done ([merged] provide badblocks check)
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INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: 2004-03-27, beta3 images from
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ports-status
(i386 netinst CD, boot floppy, root floppy, cd-drivers floppy)
uname -a: Linux abidos 2.4.25-1-586tsc #1 Tue Feb 24 09:38:36 EST 2004 i586 GNU/Linux
Date: 2004-03-27, the whole evening
Method: Install from netinst CD without using the network (I installed
the packages after finishing the install), booting from the
boot+root+cd-drivers floppies.
Machine: Old box from parts
Processor: Pentium 200MHz
Memory: about 48M
Root Device: 800M IDE QUANTUM TRB850A
Root Size/partition table:
Disk /dev/hda: 850 MB, 850010112 bytes
32 heads, 63 sectors/track, 823 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2016 * 512 = 1032192 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 31 31216+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 32 155 124992 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 156 823 673344 83 Linux
hda1 => /boot ext3, hda2 => swap, hda3 => / ext3
Output of lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 430HX - 82439HX TXC [Triton II] (rev 01)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371SB PIIX3 ISA [Natoma/Triton II]
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371SB PIIX3 IDE [Natoma/Triton II]
00:08.0 Ethernet controller: MYSON Technology Inc SURECOM EP-320X-S 100/10M Ethernet PCI Adapter
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: MYSON Technology Inc SURECOM EP-320X-S 100/10M Ethernet PCI Adapter
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked: [E]
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [ ]
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: [O]
Reboot: [O]
Comments/Problems:
The first problem was that the netinst CD didn't boot. The system reset
itself if the CD was in the drive while booting, even if it should be
trying to boot from a floppy (boot order A:,CDROM,C:).
I figured that was because of the old BIOS (one of these old AMI BIOS
with a graphical windows-like interface, with a BIOS date from 95).
Booting from the floppies worked fine.
I got bit trying to use reiserfs for everything, because the partitioner
doesn't notice journalling filesystems have a minimum size because of
the hidden journal (and IIRC it's 30M default for reiserfs and 8M
default for ext3). It failed while creating the /boot filesystem. I
decided to use ext3 for /boot (and later changed / to ext3 when I
noticed it had bad blocks; checking for bad blocks in reiserfs is a
pain).
Another problem was that the partitioner didn't have the option to check
for bad blocks like the old installer had. This caused an error while
unpacking the base system, due to an IO error. It was not possible to
umount the partitions and check for badblocks by hand because badblocks
was not available.
As a workaround, I used the old installer from
dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/bf2.4 to do the mkfs in
the two ext3 partitions and the mkswap in the swap partition, checking
for badblocks in all of them. That was the only thing I did in the old
installer (I also told it the right mountpoints so it created the /boot
mountpoint).
When trying again in the new installer, I told it to not mkfs/mkswap,
and everything worked fine.
The system date somehow got set horribly wrong; I don't know if it was
user error or BIOS error. It would be nice if the installer had a SNTP
client to check for the sanity of the clock, or at least scream if
somehow it's set to 1996 or something equally bogus.
The broken PCI video card (which caused ICEs on gcc until it was
removed) didn't cause any problems during the install (except that after
finishing the second part of the install I rebooted and the box stopped
working until the card was reseated).
I chose grub as the bootloader (why there isn't a question about
bootloaders in this report template?)
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Subject: Processed: Bug#240713 (merged with 255048)
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severity 240713 wishlist
retitle 240713 [merged] provide badblocks check
merge 240713 255048
thanks
Hi,
thank you for your installation report (sorry it has taken so long time=20
getting back to you on this report - too many reports, too few people=20
to process them). Relevant d-i developers has been notified of your=20
comments regarding the bad blocks issue.
Thank you for your time.
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