Bug#358811: error in installation on SATA hard disk
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: CD
Image version: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1r1 Official i386 Binary-1 (from
cdimage.debian.org)
Date: 2006/03/22
Machine: Sony Vaio VGN-S5XP
Processor: Intel Pentium (centrino) 2.0GHz
Memory: 1GB
Partitions:
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major minor #blocks name
8 0 97685784 sda
8 1 19535008 sda1
8 2 1 sda2
8 5 20972826 sda5
240 0 1939136 cloop0
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Output of lspci and lspci -n:
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0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. Mobile Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. Mobile Memory Controller Hub PCI Express
Port (rev 03)
0000:00:1b.0 0403: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High
Definition Audio Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family)
USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family)
USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family)
USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family)
USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family)
USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d3)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge
(rev 03)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family)
IDE Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller (rev
03)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus
Controller (rev 03)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device
0168 (rev a1)
0000:06:05.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI7420 CardBus Controller
0000:06:05.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI7x20 1394a-2000 OHCI
Two-Port PHY/Link-Layer Controller
0000:06:05.3 Unknown mass storage controller: Texas Instruments
PCI7420/PCI7620 Dual Socket CardBus and Smart Card Cont. w/ 1394a-2000 OHCI
Two-Port PHY/Link-Layer Cont. an
0000:06:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 1068 (rev 03)
0000:06:0b.0 Network controller: Intel Corp. PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)
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Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [ ]
Config network: [ ]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [E]
Partition hard drives: [E]
Create file systems: [ ]
Mount partitions: [ ]
Install base system: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Reboot: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
the boot params were:
linux26 hw-detect/start_pcmcia=false vga=771
The Hard Drive of the Sony-Vaio-VGN-S5XP is a Fujitsu MHV2100B, which uses a
SATA driver.
It seems that the sata driver names the hard disk as /dev/sda
There is no conflict with the cdrom, since it is a matsushita IDE, and it is
named as /dev/hda.
The installer is able to recognize the CDROM and read the modules and so on,
however, it is not able to find the hard disk (it says that there is no disk
to partition).
I have read something saying that it is a matter of changing the fstab, but I
think that at this stage of the installer (finding the HD and partitioning
it) the fstab is not relevant.
I was able to boot from a knoppix live CD (Knoppix v_3.8.1-2005-04-08, which
has a 2.6 kernel) and got some info about the system from the 'proc'
directory
some info from 'dmesg'
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ICH6: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[B] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
ICH6: chipset revision 3
ICH6: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1880-0x1887, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: MATSHITAUJ-832D, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
Probing IDE interface ide2...
Probing IDE interface ide3...
Probing IDE interface ide4...
Probing IDE interface ide5...
hda: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
libata version 1.10 loaded.
ahci version 1.00
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[B] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
ahci(0000:00:1f.2) AHCI 0001.0000 32 slots 4 ports 1.5 Gbps 0x5 impl IDE mode
ahci(0000:00:1f.2) flags: 64bit ncq pm led pmp slum part
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF882A500 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 18
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF882A580 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 18
ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF882A600 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 18
ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF882A680 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 18
ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7f09 84:6063 85:3469 86:bf09 87:6063
88:203f
ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/100, 195371568 sectors: lba48
ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100
scsi0 : ahci
ata2: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
scsi1 : ahci
ata3: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
scsi2 : ahci
ata4: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
scsi3 : ahci
Vendor: ATA Model: FUJITSU MHV2100B Rev: 0000
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
SCSI device sda: 195371568 512-byte hdwr sectors (100030 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sda: 195371568 512-byte hdwr sectors (100030 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 >
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
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Thank you very much in advance
Vicente
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