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Bug#283050: marked as done (IP22 MIPS Linux Install Failure)

Your message dated Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:57:48 +0000
with message-id <E1OtBnA-0004KC-EI@ravel.debian.org>
and subject line Closing old installation report #283050
has caused the Debian Bug report #283050,
regarding IP22 MIPS Linux Install Failure
to be marked as done.

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Package: installation-reports

Debian-installer-version: 21 November, 2004, D-I Nightly build
uname -a: n/a
Date: 25 Nov, 2004
Method: Network boot, network install, no proxy, data from
archive.progeny.net mirror

Machine: SGI Indy IP22
Processor: R4600 100MHz
Memory: 96 MB
Root Device: SCSI - SGI-branded Seagate 514 MB hard disk
Root Size/partition table:
	/boot: 35 MB
	/    : 470-odd MB (can't get into machine to get exact number)

Output of lspci and lspci -n: n/a

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:              [ ]
Load installer modules: [ O ]
Detect hard drives:     [ O ]
Partition hard drives:  [ E ]
Create file systems:    [ O ]
Mount partitions:       [ O ]
Install base system:    [ O ]
Install boot loader:    [ E ]
Reboot:                 [ O ]

Comments/Problems:

1. The version of fdisk that comes with Debian Installer REALLY sucks...
namely because I had to figure out on paper my partition table, rather
than just do it on the fly. Is there a better version of fdisk out there
(cfdisk, maybe could be patched to handle SGI slices and such?) that could
be integrated?

2. After installing the base system, and writing with ARCS to the PROM the
values I was told to by d-i after the installation of the base system was
complete, the system failed completely to boot -- it would load the ARCS
kernel loader, which then proceeded to tell me it couldn't find the
Kernel.



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Philippe Vachon
Assistant Administrator, EngSoc Project, 3338 ME
phirkel@engsoc.org
Faculty of Engineering, Carleton University

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We are closing this installation report for one of the following
reasons:
- it was reported with a pre-lenny version of Debian
  Installer.
- indications in the installation report give the feeling that
  the reported problem waslying in another software, unrelated to
  D-I, which we can't easily identify.
- indications in the installation report suggest that it may have been
  fixed in a more recent version of a D-I component
- it was successful and we forgot closing it..:-)
- it has no information we consider useful


The D-I team is currently in the process of cleaning out the old spool
of installation reports that haven't bene processed yet. 

In case you think that the problem you reported has chances to be
still present, please reiterate your installation test with
a more recent image of D-I, if you're in position of doing this.

You'll find daily builds at
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer. We recommend you choose
the netboot image, in the "daily builds section", then choose to
install "squeeze" when prompted.

If some problems are found, please report them with a new bug sent
against installation-reports.

Many thanks for your understanding and your help improving Debian,
past and present.

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