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Bug#491813: marked as done ([lenny][i386][hd-media][20080721] FAIL dell poweredge 2950)

Your message dated Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:10:06 +0200
with message-id <20080728151006.GA12646@qamar>
and subject line Re: Bug#491813: Acknowledgement ([lenny][i386][hd-media][20080721]  fails to boot)
has caused the Debian Bug report #491813,
regarding [lenny][i386][hd-media][20080721] FAIL dell poweredge 2950
to be marked as done.

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Package: installation-reports

INSTALL REPORT

Debian-installer-version: lenny i386 hd-media daily 2008.07.21
(see comments for details)

uname -a: (does not boot)

Date: 2008.07.22
Method:
  How did you install?  Boot from USB key.
  What did you boot off?  USB key
  If network install, from where?
  Proxied? no

Machine:  Dell Poweredge 2950
Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5345  @ 2.33GHz
           (two, quad core)

Memory: 16Gb
 MemTotal:     16441888 kB
 MemFree:      16351100 kB
 Buffers:          4644 kB
 Cached:          28908 kB
 SwapCached:          0 kB
 Active:          28840 kB
 Inactive:        16216 kB
 HighTotal:           0 kB
 HighFree:            0 kB
 LowTotal:     16441888 kB
 LowFree:      16351100 kB
 SwapTotal:     8388600 kB
 SwapFree:      8388600 kB
 Dirty:               8 kB
 Writeback:           0 kB
 AnonPages:       11512 kB
 Mapped:           4448 kB
 Slab:            15592 kB
 PageTables:       1660 kB
 NFS_Unstable:        0 kB
 Bounce:              0 kB
 CommitLimit:  16609544 kB
 Committed_AS:    45784 kB
 VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB
 VmallocUsed:    266708 kB
 VmallocChunk: 34359471415 kB

Root Device:

Root Size/partition table:


Output of lspci and lspci -n:

Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = 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 was attempting to provide more information about an old bug (#414117).
I downloaded an hd-media image from
 http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/hd-media/boot.img.gz
and a netinst.iso from
 http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso

I set the USB key up like this:
 zcat boot.img.gz >/dev/sdb
 mount /dev/sdb /mnt
 cp netinst.iso /mnt

The sequence to reproduce is:
1. Power off machine.
2. Insert USB key.
3. Power up, select F11 to get the boot menu.
4. Select the USB key device to boot from.

  The installer screen appears (so ISOLINUX/SYSLINUX is working)
  'Install' is highlighted.

5. Press <return>

  The system starts to load, ie 'linux' loads, then 'initrdg.gz'.
  The initrd appears to complete loading.
  But then the system boots back into the BIOS.
  I don't see any normal boot messages at all.

I tried different modes of booting, by using the arrow keys to highlight
the different options on the first screen of the installer, and hitting
<return>.
 * Advanced->Expert Install'
 * Help->, look at a few screens (using F6, F7, F8)
   then type 'Install' at the prompt on the screen.
 * 'Graphical'
All give the same result.

The bios is Phoenix ROM BIOS Plus 1.10, 1.3.7

This machine is currently running etch, with EMT64 extensions turned on
(ie amd64 kernel). So I'm confident the hardware is ok.

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On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:09:10PM +1000, Vincent McIntyre wrote:
> I tried a more recent image,
> http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/hd-media/boot.img.gz
> md5: 355a9e6eee8abd27f6a5eb2e314622f7
> 
> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso
> (dated Sat Jul 26 09:30:29 UTC 2008, not exactly the same as boot.img.gz)
> md5: 7863f1046be6383363e50b61bfd01f49
> 
> This works correctly, ie the installer is able to boot and I get as
> far as the network card configuration screen[1].
> This is true whether I use the standard "install" item from the splash
> screen, the "graphical" item, or the "advanced options"->"expert install".
> 
> So I think this particular bug has been fixed and can be closed.

It was actually fixed by Joey Hess in r54586.  See also bug #490149.

Happy to know that the problem is gone and closing this bug. :)

Cheers,
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Jérémy Bobbio                        .''`. 
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