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Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: pre-rc2 from
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
uname -a: Linux laurie 2.6.8-1-386 #1 Thu Oct 7 02:21:16 EDT 2004 i686
GNU/Linux
Date: 12 Oct 2004
Method: Netinst CD image. Using ftp://mirror.ox.ac.uk as mirror to
download from.
Machine: ASUS A7V600-X motherboard, VIA KT600 north bridge, VIA
VT8237 south bridge, VIA Rhine on board NIC
Processor: AMD Sempron 2400
Memory: 512MB DDR333
Root Device: 2x IDE hard disk, UDMA133, RAID1 /dev/md1
Root Size/partition table:
Drive identically formatted, `hdx' stands for `hda' and `hdb'
Device Size Id Filesystem Mountpoint
hdx1 1G fd ext3 swap
hdx2 4G fd ext3 /
hdx3 4G fd ext3 /var
hdx4 N/A f [logical partitions]
hdx5 7G fd ext3 /usr
hdx6 6G fd reiserfs /home
hdx7 40G fd reiserfs /data
hdx8 5G 83 [unused - future expansion]
hdx9 5G 83 [unused - future expansion]
hdx10 5G 83 [unused - future expansion]
hdx11 5G 83 [unused - future expansion]
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
flub@laurie:~$ lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400/KT600
AGP] Host Bridge (rev 80)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
0000:00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
0000:00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro
100] (rev 08)
0000:00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA
RAID Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
0000:00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
1.1 Controller (rev 81)
0000:00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
1.1 Controller (rev 81)
0000:00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
1.1 Controller (rev 81)
0000:00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
1.1 Controller (rev 81)
0000:00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge
[K8T800 South]0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA
Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
0000:00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102
[Rhine-II] (rev 78)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128
Pro Ultra TF
flub@laurie:~$ lspci -n
0000:00:00.0 0600: 1106:3189 (rev 80)
0000:00:01.0 0604: 1106:b198
0000:00:0c.0 0200: 10ec:8139 (rev 10)
0000:00:0d.0 0200: 8086:1229 (rev 08)
0000:00:0f.0 0104: 1106:3149 (rev 80)
0000:00:0f.1 0101: 1106:0571 (rev 06)
0000:00:10.0 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 81)
0000:00:10.1 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 81)
0000:00:10.2 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 81)
0000:00:10.3 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 81)
0000:00:10.4 0c03: 1106:3104 (rev 86)
0000:00:11.0 0601: 1106:3227
0000:00:11.5 0401: 1106:3059 (rev 60)
0000:00:12.0 0200: 1106:3065 (rev 78)
0000:01:00.0 0300: 1002:5446
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Create file systems: [O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Install boot loader: [E]
Reboot: [E]
Comments/Problems:
GRUB did install and the system rebooted. But GRUG got the wrong
partition as root device! Within GRUB itself I had to edit the boot
menu and had to change the line `root (hd0,0)' [my swap], to `root
(hd0,1)' [my real root]. It took me some minutes before I know what was
wrong tho, as the error message GRUB gave when trying to boot was:
Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xfd
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-1-386 root:/dev/md1 ro
Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition.
Press any key to continue...
Mentioning my partition type it did mislead me for some minutes about
what was really wrong. But that's just my fault.
The real problem was that the installer had the wrong root device
written in GRUB's menu.lst file.
Hope this helps
Floris
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