Bug#288974: marked as done (Debian installer report: i386, d-i RC2, 2004-12-29)
Your message dated Fri, 7 Jan 2005 23:13:53 +0100
with message-id <200501072313.54177.aragorn@tiscali.nl>
and subject line Bug#288974: Debian installer report: i386, d-i RC2, 2004-12-29
has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.
This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.
(NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what I am
talking about this indicates a serious mail system misconfiguration
somewhere. Please contact me immediately.)
Debian bug tracking system administrator
(administrator, Debian Bugs database)
--------------------------------------
Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 6 Jan 2005 15:49:41 +0000
>From gregor.herrmann@comodo.priv.at Thu Jan 06 07:49:41 2005
Return-path: <gregor.herrmann@comodo.priv.at>
Received: from colleen.colgarra.priv.at [82.150.197.85]
by spohr.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 1 (Debian))
id 1CmZtM-0005Rq-00; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 07:49:40 -0800
Received: from chello080109165251.tirol.surfer.at ([80.109.165.251] helo=belanna.comodo.priv.at)
by colleen.colgarra.priv.at with asmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA:16)
(Exim 4.34)
id 1CmZtK-0005FW-Ly
for submit@bugs.debian.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 16:49:39 +0100
Received: from gregoa by belanna.comodo.priv.at with local (Exim 4.34)
id 1CmZtE-0003b1-H6
for submit@bugs.debian.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 16:49:32 +0100
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:49:32 +0100
From: gregor herrmann <gregor+debian@comodo.priv.at>
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Debian installer report: i386, d-i RC2, 2004-12-29
Message-ID: <[🔎] 20050106154932.GD8533@belanna.comodo.priv.at>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i
Sender: gregor herrmann <gregor.herrmann@comodo.priv.at>
Delivered-To: submit@bugs.debian.org
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02
(1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on spohr.debian.org
X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-8.0 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00,HAS_PACKAGE
autolearn=no version=2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02
X-Spam-Level:
Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version:
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/rc2/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
uname -a:
Linux belanna 2.6.9.200501060123 #1 Thu Jan 6 01:51:46 CET 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
(the original kernel was 2.6.8-1-386)
Date:
2004-12-29
Method:
Debian-Installer RC2
Netinst CD image, with Debian base
'expert' mode, 2.6 kernel
Machine:
Intel D865GBF board (for details cf. lspci output below)
Processor: Intel Celeron 2.8 GHz
Memory: 1 GB
Root Device: S-ATA hard disk, 160 GB, SAMSUNG SP1614C
Root Size/partition table:
root@belanna:~# fdisk -l /dev/hde
Disk /dev/hde: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hde1 1 6 48163+ 83 Linux
/dev/hde2 7 130 996030 82 Linux swap
/dev/hde3 131 19457 155244127+ 83 Linux
root@belanna:~# cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hde3 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hde1 /boot ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hde2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
[..]
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
root@belanna:~# lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82865G Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #4 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) Ultra ATA 100 Storage Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB (ICH5) Serial ATA 150 Storage Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
0000:01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82562EZ 10/100 Ethernet Controller (rev 01)
root@belanna:~# lspci -n
0000:00:00.0 0600: 8086:2570 (rev 02)
0000:00:02.0 0300: 8086:2572 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:24d2 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.1 0c03: 8086:24d4 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.2 0c03: 8086:24d7 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.3 0c03: 8086:24de (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.7 0c03: 8086:24dd (rev 02)
0000:00:1e.0 0604: 8086:244e (rev c2)
0000:00:1f.0 0601: 8086:24d0 (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.1 0101: 8086:24db (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.2 0101: 8086:24d1 (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.3 0c05: 8086:24d3 (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.5 0401: 8086:24d5 (rev 02)
0000:01:08.0 0200: 8086:1050 (rev 01)
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: [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: [E]
Comments/Problems:
* The installer asked about _3_ times if I have any PCMCIA devices.
No real problem but a little annyoing.
* During the installation various messages where shown that several
modules could not be loaded. I guess they were loaded at a later
stage or were not needed anyway. So again no problem but a little
confusing.
* Sound: After the base install and with the shipped kernel sound
didn't work. After compiling a custom kernel with ALSA and without
OSS everything is fine.
* Grub: Here comes the only real problem:
I installed Debian on the S-ATA drive (shown as /dev/hde above,
originally named /dev/sda). The machine contains an old IDE drive
too (/dev/hda - primary master). The BIOS is set to boot from the
S-ATA drive i.e. BIOS reports it as the first and the IDE drive as
the second hard disk. But: grub thought that the S-ATA drive with
Debian was (hd1) - and therefore didn't boot - until I changed it
to (hd0) in /boot/grub/menu.lst. (Additionally the grub install
detected my old Windows on the IDE drive but recognized it as the
first drive although it's the second. I had to change (hd0) to
(hd1). Furthermore in order to be able to boot into Windows I had
to use the 'map' directive in menu-lst to swap the drives for the
NT bootloader but that's another story.)
* RAM: I was a little surprised that the shipped kernel included
about each and everything but no HIGHMEM support so I initially had
only 896MB of my 1GB RAM available. (And I didn't know that 1GB is
already HIGHMEM ;-))
gregor
--
http://info.comodo.priv.at/ | gpg key ID: 0x00F3CFE4
infos zur usenet-hierarchie at.*: http://www.usenet.at/
member of https://www.vibe.at/ | how to reply: http://got.to/quote/
---------------------------------------
Received: (at 288974-done) by bugs.debian.org; 7 Jan 2005 22:14:24 +0000
>From aragorn@tiscali.nl Fri Jan 07 14:14:24 2005
Return-path: <aragorn@tiscali.nl>
Received: from (elrond.fjphome.nl) [195.240.184.66]
by spohr.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 1 (Debian))
id 1Cn2ND-0002P5-00; Fri, 07 Jan 2005 14:14:23 -0800
Received: from strider.fjphome.nl ([10.19.66.11] ident=fjp)
by elrond.fjphome.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.34)
id 1Cn2Mi-0000Kg-7U; Fri, 07 Jan 2005 23:13:52 +0100
From: Frans Pop <aragorn@tiscali.nl>
Reply-To: 288974@bugs.debian.org
To: gregor herrmann <gregor+debian@comodo.priv.at>,
288974-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#288974: Debian installer report: i386, d-i RC2, 2004-12-29
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 23:13:53 +0100
User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1
References: <[🔎] 20050106154932.GD8533@belanna.comodo.priv.at>
In-Reply-To: <[🔎] 20050106154932.GD8533@belanna.comodo.priv.at>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline
Message-Id: <200501072313.54177.aragorn@tiscali.nl>
Delivered-To: 288974-done@bugs.debian.org
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02
(1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on spohr.debian.org
X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.0 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00,HAS_BUG_NUMBER
autolearn=no version=2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02
X-Spam-Level:
On Thursday 06 January 2005 16:49, gregor herrmann wrote:
> Comments/Problems:
> * The installer asked about _3_ times if I have any PCMCIA devices.
> No real problem but a little annyoing.
Known issue, but difficult to fix with current set of utilities available.
Will we improved eventually.
> * During the installation various messages where shown that several
> modules could not be loaded. I guess they were loaded at a later
> stage or were not needed anyway. So again no problem but a little
> confusing.
Well, I can only say: don't use expert mode ;-)
You may want to try booting the installer with 'debconf/priority=medium'
boot parameter next time.
> * Sound: After the base install and with the shipped kernel sound
> didn't work. After compiling a custom kernel with ALSA and without
> OSS everything is fine.
Alsa currently never works after the first reboot. Some alsa package needs
to be installed that includes blacklisting the OSS modules.
You should have been able to get thinks working without compiling your own
kernel as well.
> * Grub: Here comes the only real problem:
> I installed Debian on the S-ATA drive (shown as /dev/hde above,
> originally named /dev/sda). The machine contains an old IDE drive
> too (/dev/hda - primary master). The BIOS is set to boot from the
> S-ATA drive i.e. BIOS reports it as the first and the IDE drive as
> the second hard disk. But: grub thought that the S-ATA drive with
> Debian was (hd1) - and therefore didn't boot - until I changed it
> to (hd0) in /boot/grub/menu.lst. (Additionally the grub install
> detected my old Windows on the IDE drive but recognized it as the
> first drive although it's the second. I had to change (hd0) to
> (hd1). Furthermore in order to be able to boot into Windows I had
> to use the 'map' directive in menu-lst to swap the drives for the
> NT bootloader but that's another story.)
If you look through the bug reports for grub-installer you will find that
both issues are already covered there.
The main problem is that it is not possible to read the bios settings for
which drive it is set to boot from.
> * RAM: I was a little surprised that the shipped kernel included
> about each and everything but no HIGHMEM support so I initially had
> only 896MB of my 1GB RAM available. (And I didn't know that 1GB is
> already HIGHMEM ;-))
I'm not sure why this choice has been made. There probably is a good
reason for it. If you want to find out I suggest asking the kernel
mailing list. Anyway, it is not a debian installer issue.
As all your issues are already well covered by existing bug reports and as
the installation was in general successful, I am closing your
installation report. Thank you very much for submitting it.
Cheers,
FJP
(P.S. That the report is closed does not mean you can not follow up on it
if you want to.)
Reply to: