Bug#271164: Installation Report amd64(gcc-3.2)
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: SVN revision 21410
uname -a: 2.6.8-3-amd64
Date: 20040911
Method: grabbed SVN image, built monolithic for
amd64(gcc-3.4), wrote it on a USB stick,
boot using 'expert'
packages grabbed from http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/gcc-3.4/
Machine: Shuttle SN85G4V2, nforce3 150
Processor: AMD64, 3200+, Newcastle
Memory: 1 GB
Root Device: SATA (sata_sil), IDE: amd74xx
Root Size/partition table:
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 487 3911796 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 488 1461 7823655 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 1462 1705 1959930 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda4 1706 19457 142592940 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 1706 9001 58605088+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 9002 19457 83987788+ 83 Linux
Output of lspci and lspci -n: NA
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD: [ ]
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: [ ]
Reboot: [E]
Comments/Problems:
Actually the reboot worked. But the final system was not correctly
configured (IMHO):
- hdparm was not installed. (If you install some non-standard
tools like pppoe, then you should install hdparm, too. I
would guess there are more users with an IDE disk than with
a PPPoE connection.)
- man and apt-get complained about $LANG set to "en" and
$LANGUAGE set to "en_GB:en_US:en", etc. I did not ask
for these "British" settings at installation time. I
selected US. How can I tell d-i to use LANG=C ?
- In partman I had selected "partition manually" and reiserfs
for the root partition. I also had set a label for the
root partition called "root". The label was set correctly.
But the generated /etc/fstab is
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sda1 / reiserfs notail 0 1
/dev/sda3 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sdd /media/usb0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
Especially note that there is no "LABEL=root" for / . I am not
sure whether labels for reiserfs partitions are supported here.
If not, then the option in partman-reiserfs asking for a label
might be obsolete. If yes, then LABEL=root is missing.
- In d-i I did not disable any of the suggested drivers. Especially
all ide-* drivers were kept enabled. The final system did not use
the expected amd74xx driver for ide, but ide-generic, i.e. dma is
off if you keep the defaults suggested by d-i.
I don't think that this is correct. If I tell d-i to kick out
_all_ suggested ide drivers, then discover loads the expected
amd74xx at boot time, and dma is working correctly.
Regards
Harri
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