Bug#415461: Debian-Installer RC2 hangs on Intel server
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 02:39:48AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Monday 19 March 2007 19:49, Lars Josephsen wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Yes, that is a known issue. Glad you found the correct solution.
>
> > 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:
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 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
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >
> > I really don't know what is causing this hang.
>
> This looks more like a kernel issue than anything related to the
> installation itself.
You can close this bug: It turns out it was a problem with the BIOS on
the Intel Server Board S5000VSA.
BIOS version S5000.86B.05.00.0070 from 11/17/2006 had a problem, which
has been fixed in BIOS version S5000.86B.06.00.0074 from 02/02/2007.
Here are Intel's release notes for BIOS R0074:
http://downloadmirror.intel.com/df-support/12880/ENG/VSA_74release.txt
You will note that they mention that there were problems with Suse
Linux Enterprise Server 9 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.
The CPU IERR that RHEL 4 had, was the same problem that Debian Etch had.
Once I installed BIOS R0074, Debian Etch booted easily and works fine.
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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