Bug#311678: d-i doesn't like lots of SCSI disks
Package: installation-reports
Severity: important
Debian-installer-version: RC3, downloaded from ftp.demon.co.uk
uname -a: n/a
Date: 26/05/2005
Method: Network boot from LAN, install from ftp.demon.co.uk
Machine: Sun Ultra Enterprise 450
Processor: 4 x SuperSPARC II 300MHz
Memory: 1GB
Root Device: SCSI, sdi2
Root Size/partition table: sdi1 = 200MB boot partition, sdi2 = 8.9GB root
partition
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Psycho PCI Bus
Module
0000:01:00.0 Host bridge: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Psycho PCI Bus
Module
0000:02:00.0 Host bridge: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Psycho PCI Bus
Module
0000:03:00.0 Host bridge: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Psycho PCI Bus
Module
0000:04:00.0 Host bridge: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Psycho PCI Bus
Module
0000:04:01.0 Bridge: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. EBUS (rev 01)
0000:04:01.1 Ethernet controller: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Happy Meal
(rev 01)
0000:04:02.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c875 (rev
03)
0000:04:03.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c875 (rev
03)
0000:04:04.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c875 (rev
14)
0000:04:04.1 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c875 (rev
14)
0000:05:00.0 Host bridge: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Psycho PCI Bus
Module
0000:00:00.0 0600: 108e:8000
0000:01:00.0 0600: 108e:8000
0000:02:00.0 0600: 108e:8000
0000:03:00.0 0600: 108e:8000
0000:04:00.0 0600: 108e:8000
0000:04:01.0 0680: 108e:1000 (rev 01)
0000:04:01.1 0200: 108e:1001 (rev 01)
0000:04:02.0 0100: 1000:000f (rev 03)
0000:04:03.0 0100: 1000:000f (rev 03)
0000:04:04.0 0100: 1000:000f (rev 14)
0000:04:04.1 0100: 1000:000f (rev 14)
0000:05:00.0 0600: 108e:8000
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: [E]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Reboot: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
The installation was going fine up until halfway through installing the base
system. When it got to installing the kernel image and tried to make an
initrd, it failed by saying that '/dev/sdi2 isn't a valid block device'. It
was a valid block device because it had just partitioned it and created the
filing system (ext3).
I later re-tried the installation with the boot and root filesystems on sda,
which worked fine, so I can only presume it was a problem with trying to
install onto such a high disk ID.
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