Bug#317744: Install failure report.
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: Sarge, 31r0a on July 5, 2005, from debian web site
uname -a: Linux doclap 2.6.8-2-386 #1 Mon Jan 24 03:01:58 EST 2005 i686 unknown
Date: July 10 11pm.
Method: Booted from cd burned from debian-31r0a-i386-binary-1.iso, gave it
the 'linux26 hw-detect/start_pcmcia=false' boot option to bypass the
famous 'lock up on pcmcia detection' issue.
Machine: Dell Inspiron 8100
Processor:p3
Memory:256M
Root Device: hda (ide) partition 6
Root Size/partition table: 20G disk.
part 1 - 2096451 blocks windows
part 2 - 17438557 blocks extended
part 3 - 6538423 blocks windows (data partition)
part 5 - 40131 blocks linux /boot partition
part 6 - 5116671 blocks intended for sarge root (/)
part 7 - 626503 blocks swap
part 8 - 5116576 blocks mandrake 10.0 root
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
don't work under sarge, must boot under mandrake:
00:00.0 Class 0600: 8086:1130 (rev 04)
00:01.0 Class 0604: 8086:1131 (rev 04)
00:1e.0 Class 0604: 8086:2448 (rev 03)
00:1f.0 Class 0601: 8086:244c (rev 03)
00:1f.1 Class 0101: 8086:244a (rev 03)
00:1f.2 Class 0c03: 8086:2442 (rev 03)
01:00.0 Class 0300: 10de:0112 (rev b2)
02:03.0 Class 0401: 125d:1998 (rev 10)
02:06.0 Class 0604: 1668:0100 (rev 11)
02:0f.0 Class 0607: 104c:ac42
02:0f.1 Class 0607: 104c:ac42
02:0f.2 Class 0c00: 104c:8027
08:04.0 Class 0200: 8086:1229 (rev 08)
08:08.0 Class 0780: 11c1:0448 (rev 01)
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82815 815 Chipset Host Bridge and Memory
Controller Hub (rev 04)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82815 815 Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 04)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BAM/CAM PCI Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801BAM IDE U100 (rev 03)
00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 Go] (rev b2)
02:03.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1983S Maestro-3i PCI Audio
Accelerator (rev 10)
02:06.0 PCI bridge: Actiontec Electronics Inc: Unknown device 0100 (rev 11)
02:0f.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4451 PC card Cardbus Controller
02:0f.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4451 PC card Cardbus Controller
02:0f.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI4451 IEEE-1394 Controller
08:04.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 08)
08:08.0 Communication controller: Lucent Microelectronics WinModem 56k (rev 01)
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked: [ E ]
Configure network HW: [ O ]
Config network: [ O ]
Detect CD: [ E ]
Load installer modules: [ E ]
Detect hard drives: [ O? ]
Partition hard drives: [ E ]
Create file systems: [ ]
Mount partitions: [ ]
Install base system: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Reboot: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
Initial boot - needed to disable pcmcia detection to get to boot -
known issue, no big deal.
Detect CD - initially I had very strange problems here, with it looking
like it was working, but having it not able to find the cd.
I'm not quite sure what made it start working, unless
it was my removing of the iso image (same as on the cd)
from partition 6.
Load installer components from CD - this fails right there, saying
that it is having a problem reading from the cdrom. I drop
over to VC2 and start the shell, and do ls /cdrom, and see
some README.* files, autorun.bat, autorun.inf, debian, dists,
doc, install,isolinux, md5sum.txt, pics, pool, and tools.
If I unmount /cdrom and remount it once the 'Debian installer
main menu' is up, then tell it to check the integrety of the
CD, the CD is ok, and I can continue (if I do NOT make it check
the integrity, I cannot continue). It does say that its unable
to load agpgart, i810-tco, e100, ide-scsi, ide-mod, ide-prob-mod,
ide-detect, and ide-floppy after doing the cd integretiy check.
Then it is 'Scanning CDROM', and now it sees 'CD Debian GNU/Linux
3.1 r0a "Sarge" - Official i386 Binary-1 (20050607)"'.
Now I say 'load installer components from CD, do not add anything,
detect network hardware (which works fine, loading e100 and
configuring via dhcp).
Detect hard drives - it seems to work, but:
Partition hard drives - now things go REALLY strange. I have stuff on
the hard drive already (20G drive, which SEEMS to be detected ok).
So, i try to do the manual partition stuff. I get ONLY the option
to create a new partition table - it seems unable to read the current
one. However, dropping to a shell lets me do fdisk of
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc and I see my partitions!
At the 'partition disks' menu, I have the option of 'erase entire disk' (not
a good choice), and 'manually edit', which I choose. On the
next menu, I have 'configure software raid', 'config LVM',
'guided partitioning', 'help on partitioning', 'IDE1 master (hda) -
20.0GB HITACHI_DK23CA-20', 'undo changes', and 'finish' (menu options
shortened for tired fingers). If I select 'IDE1 master' it asks me
if I want to create a new empty partition table on the device! Which
I do not want to do. So I'm dead in the water as far as I can see.
System has some bogus version of windows on partition 1, Mandrake on part 8.
AltF3 gives me:
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.8-2-386/kernel/drivers/net/e100.ko
File descriptor 3 left open
File descriptor 4 left open
File descriptor 5 left open
File descriptor 6 left open
No matching physical volumes found
File descriptor 3 left open
File descriptor 4 left open
File descriptor 5 left open
File descriptor 6 left open
No volume groups found
Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
<blank line at end of screen>
AltF4 gives:
<date> man-menu[538]: DEBUG: configure libpared1.6-12, status:0
<ditto>: virtual package libpared1.6-12
<ditto>: configure harddrive-detection, status: 0
<ditto>: virtual package harddrive-detection
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