Re: Bug#341135: Problem installing on I2O disks
Am Montag 28 November 2005 17:00 schrieb David Goodenough:
> Package: Installation
> Version: debian-testing-i386-businesscard.iso downloaded 28th Nov 2005
>
> I have now tried both the AMD-64 and I386 versions of the installer trying
> to install Debian on a box with a DPT (now Adaptec) I2O controller.
>
> The AMD-64 build tries to load the wrong driver, as the dpt_i2o driver does
> not exist for AMD-64, rather the more generic and newer i2o_block driver is
> needed.
>
> Once the correct driver is loaded the disks will partition apparently
> correctly (I have no other machine which will accept these disks so I can
> not tell if they have been formatted correctly).
>
> But they will not load.
>
> The i386 script talks about /dev/sda, but there is no such entry in the
> /dev tree. The nearest seems be /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1.
>
> If I switch to VC2 and issue the mount command manually I get a
> message back saying "mount: Mounting /dev/... on /target failed: Invalid
> arguement when I issue the command:-
>
> mount /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /target
>
> The same if I include -t ext3.
>
> On VC4 there are some errors saying:-
>
> EXT3-FS error (device sda1): ext3_check_descriptors: Inode table for group
> 9 no in group (block 32780)!
> EXT3-FS group descriptors corrupted!
>
> Formatting the disk from VC2 makes no difference, and gives no errors
> during the formatting. Waiting for the cache to be flushed after
> formatting for some 10s of minutes also makes no difference.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> David
I have take an extra ide disk, build an new kernel boot this and make an
debstrap from this. Works perfect.
Markus
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