Bug#271492: INSTALL REPORT for Axil 320
Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version:
Daily build downloaded 10/9 ~12:30 from
http://p.d.o/~joshk/d-i/images/daily/sparc32/netboot/boot.img
uname -a: Linux spark 2.4.26-sparc32 #1 Sun Jun 20 02:18:47 PDT 2004 sparc GNU/Linux
Date: 2004-09-10
Method:
Net boot with rarpd and tftpd.
I installed from ftp.fi.debian.org without a proxy.
Machine: Axil 320 (SPARCstation 10 or 20 clone)
Processor: "ROSS HyperSparc RT625 or RT626"
Memory: 64 MB
Root Device: SCSI, SEAGATE ST34520N
Root Size/partition table:
/dev/sda1 Linux native ext2 /boot
/dev/sda2 Linux native ext3 /
/dev/sda3 Whole disk (extended?)
/dev/sda4 Linux swap
Output of lspci and lspci -n: No PCI stuff available.
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: [E]
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: [O]
Reboot: [O]
Comments/Problems:
I first tried doing a netinstall with floppies but it always failed when
loading the root disk. It said "cramfs: bad magic" and that it couldn't mount
rootfs. I tried several times with different floppies. Net boot worked without
a hitch.
After getting an IP address from my DHCP-server netcfg looped through the IP retrieval over and over.
The syslog revealed that it couldn't find mii-diag. I downloaded it and made it available but syslog
still said that the network was unavailable. Strange, it just managed to get an IP. I think it is
because my NIC hasn't got MII. I ended up replacing the netcfg binary with a script doing "return 0"
and it worked fine.
I choose to load an extra installer module (ssh-client) but the ssh-client didn't work because of some
missing libraries (libgcrypt and libutil). It worked when I put those libs in /lib.
It would be nice if the partitioner could warn that /boot has to be in the first 1 GB of the disk
for silo to work.
I selected to install the 2.4.27-1-sparc32-smp kernel but it failed to boot. The problem looks very
much like the one I had with the floppies, it says "cramfs: bad magic" and that it can't mount rootfs.
Are there some issues with initrd or something? After going back to the kernel that d-i uses
(2.4.26-sparc32) it all worked well.
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