Bug#415461: Debian-Installer RC2 hangs on Intel server
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: CD
Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/etch_di_rc2/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso
Date: 20070319 17:30 CET
Machine: Intel server Quad Core Intel Xeon E5335 2.0 GHz CPU with 8 MB L2 cache.
4 GB DDR2-667 ECC RAM. Adaptec 2420SA 4-channel SATA II RAID adapter and Intel
6 drive hot swap bay with 2 Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ES, 400 GB SATA II disks
in a RAID 1 configuration.
Adaptec SCSI Card 39320A-R connected to a Promise VTrak M310p RAID box.
The motherboard has an Intel 5000V chip set
Partitions:
These partition tables have been extracted using Recovery Is Possible:
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Note: sector size is 1024 (not 512)
Disk /dev/sda: 3191.9 GB, 3191999561728 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 194035 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 1024 = 16450560 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 194035 3117172212 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 399.9 GB, 399915352064 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 48620 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 47144 378684148+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 47145 48620 11855970 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 47145 48620 11855938+ 82 Linux swap /
Solaris
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Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [O]
Detect network card: [O]
Configure network: [O]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Clock/timezone setup: [O]
User/password setup: [O]
Install tasks: [O]
Install boot loader: [E]
Overall install: [E]
Comments/Problems:
I had one recoverable error: "Disk devices may change on reboot". During the
installation the Promise box was seen as the first drive (sda) and the
internal RAID 1 was seen as the second drive (sdb). But after reboot they were
swapped, so I used a rescue CD to change sdb to sda in menu.lst.
Then I got a tougher error: The system hangs during boot. Not even Control-Alt-
Delete has any effect: A hard reset is needed.
These are the last few lines on the console:
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INIT: version 2.86 booting
Starting the hotplug events dispatcher: udevd.
Synthesizing the initial hotplug events...done.
Waiting for /dev to be fully populated...pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input1
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I really don't know what is causing this hang.
Sincerely,
Lars
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Lars Josephsen <hunter@dina.kvl.dk> LJ667-DK
System Administrator, Department of Natural Sciences
Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen
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