Bug#336664: ramdisk too small; entry fields misaligned
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: 2005-10-31, 3.1r0a netinst image from
cdimage.debian.org
uname -a: Linux ptdslnx 2.6.8-2-32-smp #1 SMP Mon Feb 7 22:19:10 EST
2005 parisc GNU/Linux
Date: 2005-10-31 13:30 EST
Method: installed base system from CD; didn't try network install yet
Machine: HP Visualize B2000
Processor: 400MHz PA8600 (PCX-W+)
Memory: 256M
Root Device: /dev/mapper/vg00-root
Root Size/partition table:
Disk /dev/sda: 17366 cylinders, 64 heads, 32 sectors/track
Warning: The partition table looks like it was made
for C/H/S=*/255/63 (instead of 17366/64/32)
For this listing I'll assume that geometry.
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from
0
Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 0+ 7 8- 64228+ f0 Linux/PA-RISC boot
/dev/sda2 8 128 122 979965 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 130 2212 2083 16731697+ 8e Linux LVM
/dev/sda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
# /dev/sda2 = /boot; the rest are LVs created from a PV on /dev/sda3
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
0000:00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip
21142/43 (rev 41)
0000:00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: Analog Devices AD1889 sound
chip
0000:00:0e.0 IDE interface: National Semiconductor Corporation
87415/87560 IDE (rev 03)
0000:00:0e.1 Bridge: National Semiconductor Corporation 87560 Legacy I/O
(rev 01)
0000:00:0e.2 USB Controller: National Semiconductor Corporation USB
Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:0f.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c895a
(rev 01)
0000:01:00.0 3D Controller: Hewlett-Packard Company Visualize FXe (rev
03)
0000:00:0c.0 0200: 1011:0019 (rev 41)
0000:00:0d.0 0401: 11d4:1889
0000:00:0e.0 0101: 100b:0002 (rev 03)
0000:00:0e.1 0680: 100b:000e (erv 01)
0000:00:0e.2 0c03: 100b:0012 (rev 02)
0000:00:0f.0 0100: 1000:0012 (rev 01)
0000:01:00.0 0302: 103c:108b (rev 03)
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked: [E]
Configure network HW: [ ]
Config network: [ ]
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: [O]
Reboot: [O]
Comments/Problems:
Had to increase the ramdisk_size to 64M at the PALO prompt before
install would work. Otherwise it ran out of room during startup and
went into a loop, unable to find the net/unix/unix.ko kernel module.
modprobe: FATAL: Could not open
'/lib/modules/2.6.8-2-32/kernel/net/unix/unix.ko': No such file or
directory
On a separate note, during installation, text entry fields and the
progress bars were all misaligned by one tty column to the right
relative to their frames. Additionally, when a default value was
supplied, its first character would remain as a "dropping" to the left
of the entry field during editing.
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