Bug#572446: installation-report: unusual configuration fails to boot after installation
Package: installation-reports
Version: 2.38
Severity: normal
So I thought for sure this would work:
PXE boot the installation system
http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/netboot/netboot.tar.gz
Do the install, and configure the two 18GB SCSI disks as follows:
/dev/md0 raid1 swap
/dev/md1 raid0 xfs /
Each raid volume is made up of two partitions, and those two volumes
are the only ones on the system.
Installation completed, however on stable/lenny, I get an error trying
to install grub to the MBR of the first disk. It worked (or appeared to
work) on this latest testing version. Anyway, it cannot boot that way,
which I sort of figured, so I intended to PXE boot the kernel and initrd
all along. I set that up, but it fails to mount the root filesystem.
Problem 1: It fails to load the sd-mod module, so there are no SCSI
disks,
so of course it can't initialize the raid subsystem and mount /.
Problem 2: On testing/squeeze, even if I load sd-mod by hand, and then
try to re-run scripts/local-top/mdadm, I get a bunch of errors saying
there is no raid signature on sda or sdb. Bizarre. You're stuck at
that point, there's nothing you can do.
I was able to hack the initramfs on lenny and get the netbooting to
work.
Just adding the sd-mod to the modules file didn't get it done, so I
grossly hacked scripts/local-top/mdadm in the initramsfs to load sd-
mod and
then wait for 15 seconds. That seemed to do the trick, although it
still doesn't find the root filesystem right away, it goes asleep for
10-15 seconds, then finds it and proceeds.
I built the initramfs with the following command on the system using
rescue-mode:
mkinitramfs -r /dev/md1 -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686-netboot
2.6.26-2-686
-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: network
Image version: current stable/lenny and this week's and last week's
testing
Date: 15-02-2010
Machine: dual P-III Tualatin 2GiB server
Partitions:
hurricane:~# df -Tl
Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/md1 xfs 34827776 583376 34244400 2% /
tmpfs tmpfs 1038192 0 1038192 0% /lib/init/rw
udev tmpfs 10240 592 9648 6% /dev
tmpfs tmpfs 1038192 0 1038192 0% /dev/shm
hurricane:~# swapon -s
Filename Type Size
Used Priority
/dev/md0 partition 497848
0 -1
hurricane:~# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 18.3 GB, 18351959040 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2231 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x83098309
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 62 497983+ fd Linux raid
autodetect
/dev/sda2 63 2231 17422492+ fd Linux raid
autodetect
hurricane:~# fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 18.3 GB, 18351959040 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2231 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xec77eac0
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 62 497983+ fd Linux raid
autodetect
/dev/sdb2 63 2231 17422492+ fd Linux raid
autodetect
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 was able to hack my way around the problem in lenny. I'm wondering
how
to fix this in squeeze, where I get the 'no raid signature on
superblock'
stuff.
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Installer lsb-release:
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DISTRIB_ID=Debian
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Debian GNU/Linux installer"
DISTRIB_RELEASE="5.0 (lenny) - installer build 20090123lenny1"
X_INSTALLATION_MEDIUM=cdrom
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Installer hardware-summary:
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uname -a: Linux hurricane 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP Wed Feb 10 08:59:21 UTC
2010 i686 GNU/Linux
lspci -knn:
lspci -knn:00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Broadcom CNB20HE Host Bridge
[1166:0008] (rev 23)
lspci -knn: Kernel modules: sworks-agp
lspci -knn:00:00.1 Host bridge [0600]: Broadcom CNB20HE Host Bridge
[1166:0008] (rev 01)
lspci -knn: Kernel modules: sworks-agp
lspci -knn:00:00.2 Host bridge [0600]: Broadcom CNB20HE Host Bridge
[1166:0006] (rev 01)
lspci -knn: Kernel modules: sworks-agp
lspci -knn:00:00.3 Host bridge [0600]: Broadcom CNB20HE Host Bridge
[1166:0006] (rev 01)
lspci -knn: Kernel modules: sworks-agp
lspci -knn:00:03.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation
82557/8/9/0/1 Ethernet Pro 100 [8086:1229] (rev 0d)
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: e100
lspci -knn: Kernel modules: e100, eepro100
lspci -knn:00:04.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation
82557/8/9/0/1 Ethernet Pro 100 [8086:1229] (rev 0d)
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: e100
lspci -knn: Kernel modules: e100, eepro100
lspci -knn:00:0c.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies
Inc Rage XL [1002:4752] (rev 27)
lspci -knn:00:0f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Broadcom CSB5 South Bridge
[1166:0201] (rev 92)
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: piix4_smbus
lspci -knn: Kernel modules: i2c-piix4
lspci -knn:00:0f.1 IDE interface [0101]: Broadcom CSB5 IDE Controller
[1166:0212] (rev 92)
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: Serverworks_IDE
lspci -knn: Kernel modules: serverworks
lspci -knn:00:0f.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Broadcom OSB4/CSB5 OHCI USB
Controller [1166:0220] (rev 05)
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
lspci -knn: Kernel modules: ohci-hcd
lspci -knn:00:0f.3 Host bridge [0600]: Broadcom CSB5 LPC bridge
[1166:0230]
lspci -knn: Kernel modules: sworks-agp
lspci -knn:01:07.0 SCSI storage controller [0100]: Adaptec AIC-7899P
U160/m [9005:00cf] (rev 01)
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: aic7xxx
lspci -knn: Kernel modules: aic7xxx
lspci -knn:01:07.1 SCSI storage controller [0100]: Adaptec AIC-7899P
U160/m [9005:00cf] (rev 01)
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: aic7xxx
lspci -knn: Kernel modules: aic7xxx
lspci -knn:01:09.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation
82543GC Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) [8086:1004] (rev 02)
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: e1000
lspci -knn: Kernel modules: e1000
lsmod: Module Size Used by
lsmod: appletalk 25984 0
lsmod: nfsd 186928 13
lsmod: lockd 54568 1 nfsd
lsmod: nfs_acl 2912 1 nfsd
lsmod: auth_rpcgss 33952 1 nfsd
lsmod: sunrpc 162528 11 nfsd,lockd,nfs_acl,auth_rpcgss
lsmod: exportfs 3936 1 nfsd
lsmod: ipv6 235396 25
lsmod: loop 12748 0
lsmod: ide_cd_mod 27684 0
lsmod: cdrom 30176 1 ide_cd_mod
lsmod: ata_generic 4676 0
lsmod: libata 140448 1 ata_generic
lsmod: dock 8304 1 libata
lsmod: ide_pci_generic 3908 0 [permanent]
lsmod: snd_pcm 62660 0
lsmod: snd_timer 17800 1 snd_pcm
lsmod: snd 45636 2 snd_pcm,snd_timer
lsmod: soundcore 6368 1 snd
lsmod: floppy 47844 0
lsmod: snd_page_alloc 7816 1 snd_pcm
lsmod: ohci_hcd 18500 0
lsmod: serverworks 4932 0 [permanent]
lsmod: e1000 102656 0
lsmod: pcspkr 2432 0
lsmod: ide_core 96168 3
ide_cd_mod,ide_pci_generic,serverworks
lsmod: usbcore 118192 2 ohci_hcd
lsmod: i2c_piix4 7216 0
lsmod: i2c_core 19828 1 i2c_piix4
lsmod: button 6096 0
lsmod: e100 28908 0
lsmod: mii 4896 1 e100
lsmod: sworks_agp 6720 0
lsmod: agpgart 28808 1 sworks_agp
lsmod: evdev 8000 0
lsmod: xfs 458072 1
lsmod: raid1 18016 1
lsmod: raid0 6368 1
lsmod: thermal 15228 0
lsmod: processor 32576 1 thermal
lsmod: fan 4196 0
lsmod: thermal_sys 10856 3 thermal,processor,fan
lsmod: aic7xxx 117592 4
lsmod: scsi_transport_spi 19840 1 aic7xxx
lsmod: md_mod 67100 4 raid1,raid0
lsmod: sd_mod 22200 6
lsmod: scsi_mod 129548 4
libata,aic7xxx,scsi_transport_spi,sd_mod
df: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
df: /dev/md1 34827776 583376 34244400 2% /
df: tmpfs 1038192 0 1038192 0% /lib/init/rw
df: udev 10240 592 9648 6% /dev
df: tmpfs 1038192 0 1038192 0% /dev/shm
free: total used free shared
buffers cached
free: Mem: 2076388 73916 2002472 0
1120 45436
free: -/+ buffers/cache: 27360 2049028
free: Swap: 497848 0 497848
/proc/cmdline: vga=1 initrd=initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686-netboot root=/dev/
md1 BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686
/proc/cpuinfo: processor : 0
/proc/cpuinfo: vendor_id : GenuineIntel
/proc/cpuinfo: cpu family : 6
/proc/cpuinfo: model : 11
/proc/cpuinfo: model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) III CPU
family 1266MHz
/proc/cpuinfo: stepping : 1
/proc/cpuinfo: cpu MHz : 1263.498
/proc/cpuinfo: cache size : 512 KB
/proc/cpuinfo: fdiv_bug : no
/proc/cpuinfo: hlt_bug : no
/proc/cpuinfo: f00f_bug : no
/proc/cpuinfo: coma_bug : no
/proc/cpuinfo: fpu : yes
/proc/cpuinfo: fpu_exception : yes
/proc/cpuinfo: cpuid level : 2
/proc/cpuinfo: wp : yes
/proc/cpuinfo: flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8
apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse
/proc/cpuinfo: bogomips : 2528.94
/proc/cpuinfo: clflush size : 32
/proc/cpuinfo: power management:
/proc/cpuinfo:
/proc/cpuinfo: processor : 1
/proc/cpuinfo: vendor_id : GenuineIntel
/proc/cpuinfo: cpu family : 6
/proc/cpuinfo: model : 11
/proc/cpuinfo: model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) III CPU
family 1266MHz
/proc/cpuinfo: stepping : 1
/proc/cpuinfo: cpu MHz : 1263.498
/proc/cpuinfo: cache size : 512 KB
/proc/cpuinfo: fdiv_bug : no
/proc/cpuinfo: hlt_bug : no
/proc/cpuinfo: f00f_bug : no
/proc/cpuinfo: coma_bug : no
/proc/cpuinfo: fpu : yes
/proc/cpuinfo: fpu_exception : yes
/proc/cpuinfo: cpuid level : 2
/proc/cpuinfo: wp : yes
/proc/cpuinfo: flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8
apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse
/proc/cpuinfo: bogomips : 2527.07
/proc/cpuinfo: clflush size : 32
/proc/cpuinfo: power management:
/proc/cpuinfo:
/proc/ioports: 0000-001f : dma1
/proc/ioports: 0020-0021 : pic1
/proc/ioports: 0040-0043 : timer0
/proc/ioports: 0050-0053 : timer1
/proc/ioports: 0060-0060 : keyboard
/proc/ioports: 0064-0064 : keyboard
/proc/ioports: 0070-0071 : rtc0
/proc/ioports: 0080-008f : dma page reg
/proc/ioports: 00a0-00a1 : pic2
/proc/ioports: 00c0-00df : dma2
/proc/ioports: 00f0-00ff : fpu
/proc/ioports: 0170-0177 : 0000:00:0f.1
/proc/ioports: 0170-0177 : SvrWks CSB5
/proc/ioports: 01f0-01f7 : 0000:00:0f.1
/proc/ioports: 01f0-01f7 : SvrWks CSB5
/proc/ioports: 02f8-02ff : serial
/proc/ioports: 0376-0376 : 0000:00:0f.1
/proc/ioports: 0376-0376 : SvrWks CSB5
/proc/ioports: 03a0-03af : 0000:00:0f.1
/proc/ioports: 03a0-03af : SvrWks CSB5
/proc/ioports: 03c0-03df : vga+
/proc/ioports: 03f2-03f2 : floppy
/proc/ioports: 03f4-03f5 : floppy
/proc/ioports: 03f6-03f6 : 0000:00:0f.1
/proc/ioports: 03f6-03f6 : SvrWks CSB5
/proc/ioports: 03f7-03f7 : floppy
/proc/ioports: 03f8-03ff : serial
/proc/ioports: 040b-040b : pnp 00:01
/proc/ioports: 0410-0413 : 0000:00:0f.1
/proc/ioports: 04d0-04d1 : pnp 00:01
/proc/ioports: 04d6-04d6 : pnp 00:01
/proc/ioports: 0500-051f : pnp 00:01
/proc/ioports: 0500-0503 : ACPI PM1b_EVT_BLK
/proc/ioports: 0504-0505 : ACPI PM1b_CNT_BLK
/proc/ioports: 0508-050b : ACPI PM_TMR
/proc/ioports: 0514-051b : ACPI GPE1_BLK
/proc/ioports: 0530-0531 : pnp 00:01
/proc/ioports: 0540-055f : pnp 00:01
/proc/ioports: 0540-0543 : ACPI PM1a_EVT_BLK
/proc/ioports: 0544-0545 : ACPI PM1a_CNT_BLK
/proc/ioports: 0548-054f : ACPI GPE0_BLK
/proc/ioports: 0580-058f : pnp 00:01
/proc/ioports: 0580-0587 : piix4_smbus
/proc/ioports: 0c00-0c01 : pnp 00:01
/proc/ioports: 0c14-0c14 : pnp 00:01
/proc/ioports: 0c49-0c49 : pnp 00:01
/proc/ioports: 0c52-0c52 : pnp 00:01
/proc/ioports: 0c6c-0c6c : pnp 00:01
/proc/ioports: 0c6f-0c6f : pnp 00:01
/proc/ioports: 0c98-0c98 : pnp 00:01
/proc/ioports: 0cd6-0cd7 : pnp 00:01
/proc/ioports: 0cf8-0cff : PCI conf1
/proc/ioports: 0f50-0f57 : pnp 00:01
/proc/ioports: 1000-10ff : 0000:00:0c.0
/proc/ioports: 1400-143f : 0000:00:03.0
/proc/ioports: 1400-143f : e100
/proc/ioports: 1440-147f : 0000:00:04.0
/proc/ioports: 1440-147f : e100
/proc/ioports: 2000-20ff : 0000:01:07.1
/proc/ioports: 2400-24ff : 0000:01:07.0
/proc/iomem: 00000000-0009f3ff : System RAM
/proc/iomem: 0009f400-0009ffff : reserved
/proc/iomem: 000a0000-000bffff : Video RAM area
/proc/iomem: 000c0000-000c7fff : Video ROM
/proc/iomem: 000c8000-000c97ff : Adapter ROM
/proc/iomem: 000c9800-000cafff : Adapter ROM
/proc/iomem: 000cb000-000d0fff : Adapter ROM
/proc/iomem: 000f0000-000fffff : System ROM
/proc/iomem: 00100000-7ffeffff : System RAM
/proc/iomem: 00100000-002bacb4 : Kernel code
/proc/iomem: 002bacb5-0037661f : Kernel data
/proc/iomem: 003bc000-0041f57f : Kernel bss
/proc/iomem: 7fff0000-7fffefff : ACPI Tables
/proc/iomem: 7ffff000-7fffffff : ACPI Non-volatile Storage
/proc/iomem: fd000000-fdffffff : 0000:00:0c.0
/proc/iomem: fe940000-fe940fff : 0000:00:0f.2
/proc/iomem: fe940000-fe940fff : ohci_hcd
/proc/iomem: fe950000-fe95ffff : 0000:00:04.0
/proc/iomem: fe960000-fe97ffff : 0000:00:04.0
/proc/iomem: fe960000-fe97ffff : e100
/proc/iomem: fe980000-fe980fff : 0000:00:04.0
/proc/iomem: fe980000-fe980fff : e100
/proc/iomem: fe990000-fe99ffff : 0000:00:03.0
/proc/iomem: fe9a0000-fe9bffff : 0000:00:03.0
/proc/iomem: fe9a0000-fe9bffff : e100
/proc/iomem: fe9c0000-fe9dffff : 0000:00:0c.0
/proc/iomem: fe9e0000-fe9e0fff : 0000:00:03.0
/proc/iomem: fe9e0000-fe9e0fff : e100
/proc/iomem: fe9f0000-fe9f0fff : 0000:00:0c.0
/proc/iomem: feb60000-feb6ffff : 0000:01:09.0
/proc/iomem: feb70000-feb7ffff : 0000:01:09.0
/proc/iomem: feb70000-feb7ffff : e1000
/proc/iomem: feb80000-feb9ffff : 0000:01:09.0
/proc/iomem: feb80000-feb9ffff : e1000
/proc/iomem: feba0000-febbffff : 0000:01:07.0
/proc/iomem: febc0000-febdffff : 0000:01:07.1
/proc/iomem: febe0000-febe0fff : 0000:01:07.0
/proc/iomem: febe0000-febe0fff : aic7xxx
/proc/iomem: febf0000-febf0fff : 0000:01:07.1
/proc/iomem: febf0000-febf0fff : aic7xxx
/proc/iomem: fec00000-fec01fff : reserved
/proc/iomem: fee00000-fee00fff : reserved
/proc/iomem: fff00000-ffffffff : reserved
/proc/interrupts:
/proc/meminfo: MemTotal: 2076388 kB
/proc/meminfo: MemFree: 2002416 kB
/proc/meminfo: Buffers: 1120 kB
/proc/meminfo: Cached: 45452 kB
/proc/meminfo: SwapCached: 0 kB
/proc/meminfo: Active: 25920 kB
/proc/meminfo: Inactive: 30800 kB
/proc/meminfo: HighTotal: 1179584 kB
/proc/meminfo: HighFree: 1123316 kB
/proc/meminfo: LowTotal: 896804 kB
/proc/meminfo: LowFree: 879100 kB
/proc/meminfo: SwapTotal: 497848 kB
/proc/meminfo: SwapFree: 497848 kB
/proc/meminfo: Dirty: 0 kB
/proc/meminfo: Writeback: 0 kB
/proc/meminfo: AnonPages: 10160 kB
/proc/meminfo: Mapped: 9952 kB
/proc/meminfo: Slab: 6548 kB
/proc/meminfo: SReclaimable: 2424 kB
/proc/meminfo: SUnreclaim: 4124 kB
/proc/meminfo: PageTables: 580 kB
/proc/meminfo: NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
/proc/meminfo: Bounce: 0 kB
/proc/meminfo: WritebackTmp: 0 kB
/proc/meminfo: CommitLimit: 1536040 kB
/proc/meminfo: Committed_AS: 74328 kB
/proc/meminfo: VmallocTotal: 114680 kB
/proc/meminfo: VmallocUsed: 3732 kB
/proc/meminfo: VmallocChunk: 110464 kB
/proc/meminfo: HugePages_Total: 0
/proc/meminfo: HugePages_Free: 0
/proc/meminfo: HugePages_Rsvd: 0
/proc/meminfo: HugePages_Surp: 0
/proc/meminfo: Hugepagesize: 4096 kB
/proc/bus/input/devices:
/proc/fb:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPUs)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
installation-report depends on no packages.
Versions of packages installation-report recommends:
ii pciutils 1:3.0.0-6 Linux PCI Utilities
ii reportbug 3.48 reports bugs in the
Debian distrib
installation-report suggests no packages.
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