Bug#310807: Installing on NVidia nForce2 based PC
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: RC2/RC3 netinst iso (25. may 2005)
uname -a: N/A
Date: 25. may. 2005,
Method: Booted netinst. image from CD-drive
Machine: Homebrew
Processor: 1,7 GHz AMD Athlon 2100+
Memory: 512 MB
Root Device: IDE
Root Size/partition table: N/A
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
datamaten root # lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 01e0 (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 01eb (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 01ee (rev a2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 01ed (rev a2)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 01ec (rev a2)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 01ef (rev a2)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 ISA Bridge (rev a3)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce2 SMBus (MCP) (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev
a3)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev
a3)
00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev
a3)
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Ethernet
Controller (rev a1)
00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce
MultiMedia audio [Via VT82C686B] (rev a2)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97
Audio Controler (MCP) (rev a1)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 006c (rev a3)
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 006d (rev a3)
00:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): nVidia Corporation nForce2 FireWire (IEEE
1394) Controller (rev a3)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (rev a2)
01:0b.0 RAID bus controller: CMD Technology Inc Silicon Image SiI 3112
SATARaid Controller (rev 01)
02:01.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3C920B-EMB Integrated Fast
Ethernet Controller (rev 40)
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV28 [GeForce4 Ti
4200 AGP 8x] (rev a1)
datamaten root # lspci -n
00:00.0 Class 0600: 10de:01e0 (rev a2)
00:00.1 Class 0500: 10de:01eb (rev a2)
00:00.2 Class 0500: 10de:01ee (rev a2)
00:00.3 Class 0500: 10de:01ed (rev a2)
00:00.4 Class 0500: 10de:01ec (rev a2)
00:00.5 Class 0500: 10de:01ef (rev a2)
00:01.0 Class 0601: 10de:0060 (rev a3)
00:01.1 Class 0c05: 10de:0064 (rev a2)
00:02.0 Class 0c03: 10de:0067 (rev a3)
00:02.1 Class 0c03: 10de:0067 (rev a3)
00:02.2 Class 0c03: 10de:0068 (rev a3)
00:04.0 Class 0200: 10de:0066 (rev a1)
00:05.0 Class 0401: 10de:006b (rev a2)
00:06.0 Class 0401: 10de:006a (rev a1)
00:08.0 Class 0604: 10de:006c (rev a3)
00:09.0 Class 0101: 10de:0065 (rev a2)
00:0c.0 Class 0604: 10de:006d (rev a3)
00:0d.0 Class 0c00: 10de:006e (rev a3)
00:1e.0 Class 0604: 10de:01e8 (rev a2)
01:0b.0 Class 0104: 1095:3112 (rev 01)
02:01.0 Class 0200: 10b7:9201 (rev 40)
03:00.0 Class 0300: 10de:0281 (rev a1)
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [ ]
Config network: [E]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [ ]
Partition hard drives: [ ]
Create file systems: [ ]
Mount partitions: [ ]
Install base system: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Reboot: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
The machine is a non-brand pc assembled from parts. It has a CD-rom
drive and a CD-burner, the CD-ROM drive some acts a bit slow on mount,
but should work just fine. The harddrive is connected to the first IDE
channel and the CD-ROM/CD-Burner is connected is on the second on-board
IDE channel as master/slave respectively.
If both CD-burner and CD-ROM are connected i can only boot from the
CD-Burner (slave) for some reason (bios?). If I disconnect the CD-ROM
and boot from CD-Burner the result is the same as below, and the same
goes for disconnecting the CD-Burner and boot from CD-ROM.
My best guess to the error is the "Detect network hardware" step
apparently choking over the on-board NVidia network chip
It has Gentoo Linux installed with kernel version 2.4.20 (which works),
which was used to fill in the above. It uses the NVidia proprietary
network driver.
I tried both RC2 and R3 with the same result:
* I boot the install CD and get past language/keyboard selection and to
the screen "Detecting hardware to find CD-ROM". This screens for about 2
minuts with the "ide-detect".
* After stalling it goes on and ends up crashing a few screens later
(after "Scanning cd-rom", "Loading components of the installer" and
"Detecting network hardware" i believe) with the "caps lock" and
"scroll lock" keys blinking.
--
Regards Martin Leopold.
Dept. of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen
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