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Bug#302700: marked as done (hppa netboot image failure to boot; needs to pass ramdisk_size=21384)



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Package: installation-reports

Debian-installer-version: Sarge-HPPA-RC3, cdimage.debia.org, 4/1/2005
uname -a: impossible, Kernel 2.6.8-32
Date: 4/1...4/2/2005
Method: CD-ROM: Netinst, Netinst-Businesscard

Machine: HP715/100XC, "Mirage"
Processor: PA7100LC
Memory: 256MB
Root Device: SCSI, sda, sdb
Root Size/partition table:=20

Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] =3D OK, [E] =3D Error (please elaborate below), [] =3D didn't try it

Initial boot worked:    [E]
Configure network HW:   [ ]
Config network:         [ ]
Detect CD:              [ ]
Load installer modules: [ ]
Detect hard drives:     [ ]
Partition hard drives:  [ ]
Create file systems:    [ ]
Mount partitions:       [ ]
Install base system:    [ ]
Install boot loader:    [ ]
Reboot:                 [ ]

Comments/Problems:

I'm trying to boot the Debian Sarge RC3 Netinst from the internal CD-ROM of=
=20
the machine always ends after the RAMDISK is unsuccessfully installed. Then=
=20
the machine tries to load the network drivers, which it obviously can't,=20
because there is no root-Filesystem.

Problems start at:

Linux version 2.6.8-32 (kyle@caradhras) (gcc....)
=2E...
<all ok>
=2E...
HP SDC MLC: Registering the Systems Domain Controller's HIL MLC
NET: Registered protocol familiy 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16KBytes
TCP: Hash tables configured...
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
HP SDC: Transaction add failed: transaction already queued ?
=2E..
<last message repeated 6 time>
=2E..
HP SDC: read timeout (949810us)!
RAMDISK: incomplete write (-28 !=3D 32768) 16777216
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly
=46reeing unused kernel memory: 316k freed
Setting up filesystem, please wait....
attempt to access beyond end of device
ram0: rw=3D0, want=3D40650, limit=3D32768
attempt to access beyond end of device
ram0: rw=3D0, want=3D40650, limit=3D32768
=2E..
<last message repeated a zillion times>

That's it ! I have downloaded the netinst images 2 times, checked the md5su=
ms,=20
burned 2 CDs (CD-RW and older CD-R) on 2 different machines with different=
=20
CD-RW drives: No change.

The I did put the kernel and initrd from netinst on my working Debion HPPA=
=20
Woody disks (same machine), and tried to bot the kernel from the disks usin=
g=20
PALO. This gave me the same bad results.

=46rom checking the debian-hppa mailing list (read-only, I' not subscribed)=
 at=20
least 1 other person had very similiar problems on a totally different HP=20
machine (B2600): Mailing list date: April 1, 2005

=20
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Apparently this bug was fixed a while ago:

debian-installer (20051006) unstable; urgency=3Dlow

  [ Bdale Garbee ]
  * patch from Richard Hirst to fix ramdisk size on hppa

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  6 Oct 2005 15:37:13 -0400

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see shy jo

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