Bug#265597: marked as done (Alpha+DAC960: aboot installation failed)
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From: Nathan Poznick <kraken@wang-fu.org>
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Subject: Alpha+DAC960: aboot installation failed
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Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: sarge netinst daily of 20040812
uname -a: Linux buddha 2.4.26-1-generic #1 Tue Aug 3 22:46:34 CEST 2004 alp=
ha GNU/Linux
Date: Fri Aug 13 15:59:17 CDT 2004
Method: Booted from SRM onto the netinst CD.
Machine: AlphaServer 2100 4x275
Processor: 2 x Alpha EV45 275mhz
Memory: 512MB
Root Device: HW RAID5 on DAC960 controller, /dev/rd/c0d0
Root Size/partition table: (a=3Daboot, b=3D/boot, c=3D/, d=3Dswap)
5 partitions:
# start end size fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
a: 1* 1* 0* ext2
b: 1* 39* 38* ext2
c: 39* 14075* 14035* ext2
d: 14075* 14319* 244* 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=3D32.
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=3D32.
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=3D32.
Bus 0, device 6, function 0:
RAID bus controller: Mylex Corporation DAC960P (rev 2).
IRQ 34.
Master Capable. Latency=3D32. Min Gnt=3D4.
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: [O]
Install boot loader: [E]
Reboot: [ ]
[O] =3D OK, [E] =3D Error (please elaborate below), [ ] =3D didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
Well things are getting far better than they used to be. With the daily
=66rom 20040812, I was able to get all the way to the installation of the
bootloader (aboot, since this is on an Alpha), which gave me this
message:
An installation step failed. You can try to run the failing item
again from the menu, or skip it and choose something else. The
failing step is: Install aboot on a hard disk
I noticed that it appeared to be trying to install aboot to
"/dev/rd/c0d0p". If I remember swriteboot's usage, it should perhaps be
using /dev/rd/c0d0. Otherwise, it needs a partition number after the p.
Syslog tells me,
Jul 7 22:08:05 main-menu[258]: DEBUG: Menu item 'aboot-installer' selected
Jul 7 22:08:05 main-menu[258]: DEBUG: configure aboot-installer, status: 2
Jul 7 22:08:05 main-menu[258]: DEBUG: configure chroot, status: 0
Jul 7 22:08:18 aboot-installer: info: Installing aboot on '/dev/rd/c0d0p'
Jul 7 22:08:18 main-menu[258]: (process:5501): open disk device: No such f=
ile or directory
Jul 7 22:08:18 main-menu[258]: WARNING **: Configuring 'aboot-installer' f=
ailed with error code 1
Jul 7 22:08:18 main-menu[258]: WARNING **: Menu item 'aboot-installer' fai=
led.
I chroot'd into /target and manually did an swriteboot / abootconf
invocation:
cd /boot
swriteboot -f1 /dev/rd/c0d0 bootlx
abootconf /dev/rd/c0d0 3=20
but then noticed that my /etc/aboot.conf wasn't going to be much help
(not sure if this would have been corrected had the aboot installation
completed, or not). It was:
0:3/vmlinux.gz ro root=3D/dev/sda2
1:3/vmlinux.old.gz ro root=3D/dev/sda2
2:3/vmlinux.new.gz ro root=3D/dev/sda2
3:3/vmlinux ro root=3D/dev/sda2
I continued the installation without the boot loader, rebooted, and
=66rom SRM loaded up aboot in interactive mode. From there, I did:
aboot> p 2
aboot> i /initrd.img-2.4.26-1-generic
aboot> b 2/vmlinuz-2.4.26-1-generic ro root=3D/dev/rd/c0d0p3 console=3DttyS0
This got me booted up and into my shiny new Sarge installation and a run
of base-config.
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Nathan Poznick <kraken@wang-fu.org>
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From: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
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Subject: Bug#265597: fixed in aboot-installer 0.0.16
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Source: aboot-installer
Source-Version: 0.0.16
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
aboot-installer, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
aboot-installer_0.0.16.dsc
to pool/main/a/aboot-installer/aboot-installer_0.0.16.dsc
aboot-installer_0.0.16.tar.gz
to pool/main/a/aboot-installer/aboot-installer_0.0.16.tar.gz
aboot-installer_0.0.16_alpha.udeb
to pool/main/a/aboot-installer/aboot-installer_0.0.16_alpha.udeb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 265597@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> (supplier of updated aboot-installer package)
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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 02:04:26 -0700
Source: aboot-installer
Binary: aboot-installer
Architecture: source alpha
Version: 0.0.16
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
Description:
aboot-installer - Install aboot on a hard disk (udeb)
Closes: 265597
Changes:
aboot-installer (0.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
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* Fix default value for boolean debconf template.
* Add support for RAID devices (closes: #265597).
* Updated translations:
- Danish (da.po) by Claus Hindsgaul
- French (fr.po) by Christian Perrier
- Lithuanian (lt.po) by KÄ?stutis BiliÅ«nas
- Turkish (tr.po) by Recai OktaÅ?
Files:
3abbbbd5fb5cc547d583906dc4fb7e41 654 debian-installer standard aboot-installer_0.0.16.dsc
b85f4cbb9a88ffc24c0780ecf58fcfd0 62168 debian-installer standard aboot-installer_0.0.16.tar.gz
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package-type: udeb
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