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Package: installation-reports
Boot method: network via tftp
Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/lenny_di_rc1/mips/jigdo-dvd/debian-testing-mips-DVD-1.jigdo
Date: 29 December 2008
Machine: Silicon Graphics O2
Processor: R5000@200Mhz
Memory: 384Mb
Partitions:
sgi:~# cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name
8 0 71819496 sda
8 1 3204967 sda1
8 2 803250 sda2
8 3 67802332 sda3
8 9 2048 sda9
8 11 71818582 sda11
8 16 17847430 sdb
8 17 17842176 sdb1
8 25 5120 sdb9
8 27 17847296 sdb11
Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn):
~ # lspci -knn
00:01.0 SCSI storage controller [0100]: Adaptec AIC-7880U [9004:8078]
Kernel driver in use: aic7xxx
00:02.0 SCSI storage controller [0100]: Adaptec AIC-7880U [9004:8078]
Kernel driver in use: aic7xxx
00:03.0 PCI bridge [0604]: NetMos Technology Device [9710:9250] (rev 01)
01:08.0 USB Controller [0c03]: NEC Corporation USB [1033:0035] (rev 43)
01:08.1 USB Controller [0c03]: NEC Corporation USB [1033:0035] (rev 43)
01:08.2 USB Controller [0c03]: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 [1033:00e0] (rev 04)
01:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Agere Systems FW323 [11c1:5811] (rev 61)
01:0a.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet [10ec:8169] (rev 10)
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: [ ]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [E]
Install base system: [O]
Clock/timezone setup: [O]
User/password setup: [O]
Install tasks: [O]
Install boot loader: [O]
Overall install: [O]
Comments/Problems:
summary:
0) only the internal ethernet board is recognized. The network pci board
is not found by the first kernel. It is found after reboot with a final
kernel;
1) fdisk give errors when creating a second partition (I found a
workaround)
2) an unexistant partition 17 is displayed in partition list when
selecting partition usage
3) no LVM and device mapper available at installation time (no big
problem, I think)
4) information about PROM is slightly wrong
installation details:
booted with:
bootp(): append="console=ttyS0,38400 debian-installer/allow_unauthenticated=true"
Disk /dev/sda (SGI disk label): 255 heads, 63 sectors, 8941 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
----- partitions -----
Pt# Device Info Start End Sectors Id System
1: /dev/sda1 boot 1 8940 143621100 83 Linux native
9: /dev/sda2 0 0 4096 0 SGI volhdr
11: /dev/sda3 0 8940 143637165 6 SGI volume
----- Bootinfo -----
Bootfile: /unix
----- Directory Entries -----
0: arcboot sector 4 size 72492
Command (m for help): d
Partition number (1-16): 11
Command (m for help): d
Partition number (1-16): 9
Command (m for help): d
Partition number (1-16): 1
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda (SGI disk label): 255 heads, 63 sectors, 8941 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
----- partitions -----
Pt# Device Info Start End Sectors Id System
----- Bootinfo -----
Bootfile: /unix
----- Directory Entries -----
0: arcboot sector 4 size 72492
Command (m for help): n
Partition number (1-16): 1
Attempting to generate entire disk entry automatically.
First cylinder (1-8940, default 1):
Using default value 1
Last cylinder (1-8940, default 8940): 2000
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda (SGI disk label): 255 heads, 63 sectors, 8941 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
----- partitions -----
Pt# Device Info Start End Sectors Id System
1: /dev/sda1 boot 1 2000 32130000 83 Linux native
9: /dev/sda2 0 0 4096 0 SGI volhdr
11: /dev/sda3 0 8940 143637165 6 SGI volume
----- Bootinfo -----
Bootfile: /unix
----- Directory Entries -----
0: arcboot sector 4 size 72492
Command (m for help): n
Partition number (1-16): 2
First cylinder (1-0): 1
Value out of range.
First cylinder (1-0): 0
Value out of range.
First cylinder (1-0): 2001
Value out of range.
First cylinder (1-0): ^C
started again from scratch many times until I found this solution:
create partition 3 *before* partition 2, and partition 2 *before*
partition 1.
now, final schema, for first disk:
Disk /dev/sda (SGI disk label): 255 heads, 63 sectors, 8941 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
----- partitions -----
Pt# Device Info Start End Sectors Id System
1: /dev/sda1 boot 1 399 6409935 83 Linux native
2: /dev/sda2 swap 400 499 1606500 82 Linux swap
3: /dev/sda3 500 8940 135604665 8e Linux LVM
9: /dev/sda4 0 0 4096 0 SGI volhdr
11: /dev/sda5 0 8940 143637165 6 SGI volume
----- Bootinfo -----
Bootfile: /unix
----- Directory Entries -----
0: arcboot sector 4 size 72492
then, second disk:
Disk /dev/sdb (SGI disk label): 64 heads, 32 sectors, 17429 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes
----- partitions -----
Pt# Device Info Start End Sectors Id System
1: /dev/sdb1 boot 5 17428 35684352 8e Linux LVM
9: /dev/sdb2 0 4 10240 0 SGI volhdr
11: /dev/sdb3 0 17428 35694592 6 SGI volume
----- Bootinfo -----
Bootfile: /unix
----- Directory Entries -----
then, I see a new partition, numbered 17:
lqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqu [!!] Configure and mount partitions tqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqk
x x
x These are the partitions that were detected in your system. Please x
x select a partition to configure. No actual changes will be made until x
x you select "Finish". If you select "Abort", no changes will be made. x
x x
x The information shown is, in order: device name, size, file system, x
x and mount point. x
x x
x Select a partition x
x x
x SCSI1 (0,1,0) part. 17 70.5 kiB n/a x
x SCSI1 (0,1,0) part. 1 3.1 GiB ext3 x
x SCSI1 (0,1,0) part. 2 784 MiB n/a a x
x SCSI1 (0,1,0) part. 3 65 GiB n/a a x
x SCSI1 (0,2,0) part. 1 17 GiB ext3 a x
x Finish x
x x
x <Go Back> x
x x
mqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqj
... installation goes to the end and print this message about PROM:
x setenv SystemPartition scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(8) a x
x setenv OSLoadPartition scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(0) a x
x setenv OSLoader arcboot a x
x setenv OSLoadFilename Linux a x
then rebooted the machine, but I found that first two variables are
missing a "pci(0)" in front. Correct values seems to be:
setenv SystemPartition pci(0)scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(8)
setenv OSLoadPartition pci(0)scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(0)
Bye,
Giuseppe
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