Bug#404485: installation-reports: Installation fails on Digital UDB Multia (alpha)

[Martin Lambers <marlam@marlam.de>]

Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal

Boot method: CD
Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/alpha/iso-cd/debian-testing-alpha-netinst.iso
Date: 2006-12-25 16:00 CET

Machine: Digital UDB Multia (alpha)
Processor: alpha (exact type unknown)
Memory: 128 MB
Partitions: info unavailable

Output of lspci -nn and lspci -vnn:
info unavailable

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

Initial boot:           [E]
Detect network card:    [ ]
Configure network:      [ ]
Detect CD:              [ ]
Load installer modules: [ ]
Detect hard drives:     [ ]
Partition hard drives:  [ ]
Install base system:    [ ]
Clock/timezone setup:   [ ]
User/password setup:    [ ]
Install tasks:          [ ]
Install boot loader:    [ ]
Overall install:        [ ]

Comments/Problems:

Booting from the netinst CD hangs. The last messages are from aboot:
aboot: loading uncompressed boot/vmlinuz...
aboot: loading compressed boot/vmlinuz...
aboot: zero-filling 869010 bytes at 0xfffffc00017114b6
aboot: loading initrd (4387840 bytes/4285 blocks) at 0xfffffc0007a020000
aboot: starting kernel boot/vmlinuz with arguments ramdisk_size=16384 root=/dev/ram devfs=mount,dall

Then it hangs. The machine ran Debian/sarge previously; it has no known
hardware failures. The same problem occured with the RC1 installer.