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Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: RC3
uname -a: Linux media 2.6.8-2-386 #1 Mon Jan 24 03:58:38 EST 2005 i686
GNU/Linux
Date: 20050430
Method: Booted from CD with RC3, Network install
Machine: Supermicro 370DLE
Processor: 2 x 733MHz P3 Coppermine
Memory: 768MB PC133 ECC
Root Device: /dev/sda1
Root Size/partition table:
nebula:~# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 30.0 GB, 30020272128 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3649 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 3649 29310561 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sda: 18.2 GB, 18210036736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2213 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 12 96358+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 13 2213 17679532+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 13 2213 17679501 8e Linux LVM
Disk /dev/sdb: 359.9 GB, 359996719104 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 43767 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 43767 351558396 83 Linux
nebula:~# lvscan
ACTIVE '/dev/sys/root' [500.00 MB] inherit
ACTIVE '/dev/sys/swap' [1.00 GB] inherit
ACTIVE '/dev/sys/usr' [2.50 GB] inherit
ACTIVE '/dev/sys/var' [2.00 GB] inherit
ACTIVE '/dev/sys/home' [2.00 GB] inherit
nebula:~# cat /etc/fstab
/dev/mapper/sys-swap none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sda1 /boot ext3 defaults,noatime 0 1
/dev/mapper/sys-root / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro,noatime 0 1
/dev/mapper/sys-usr /usr ext3 defaults,noatime 0 2
/dev/mapper/sys-home /home reiserfs defaults,noatime,notail 0 2
/dev/mapper/sys-var /var reiserfs defaults,noatime,notail 0 2
/dev/sdb1 /home/shared xfs defaults,noatime 0 2
/dev/hda1 /home/shared/incoming xfs defaults,noatime 0 2
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
nebula:~# lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: ServerWorks CNB20LE Host Bridge (rev 06)
0000:00:00.1 Host bridge: ServerWorks CNB20LE Host Bridge (rev 06)
0000:00:01.0 SCSI storage controller: QLogic Corp. ISP1080 SCSI Host Adapter
(rev 01)
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA 2064W
[Millennium] (rev01)
0000:00:03.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83820
10/100/1000 Ethernet Controller
0000:00:06.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100]
(rev 08)
0000:00:0f.0 ISA bridge: ServerWorks OSB4 South Bridge (rev 51)
0000:00:0f.1 IDE interface: ServerWorks OSB4 IDE Controller
0000:00:0f.2 USB Controller: ServerWorks OSB4/CSB5 OHCI USB Controller (rev
04)
0000:01:01.0 RAID bus controller: 3ware Inc 3ware 7000-series ATA-RAID (rev
01)
nebula:~# lspci -n
0000:00:00.0 0600: 1166:0009 (rev 06)
0000:00:00.1 0600: 1166:0009 (rev 06)
0000:00:01.0 0100: 1077:1080 (rev 01)
0000:00:02.0 0300: 102b:0519 (rev 01)
0000:00:03.0 0200: 100b:0022
0000:00:06.0 0200: 8086:1229 (rev 08)
0000:00:0f.0 0601: 1166:0200 (rev 51)
0000:00:0f.1 0101: 1166:0211
0000:00:0f.2 0c03: 1166:0220 (rev 04)
0000:01:01.0 0104: 13c1:1001 (rev 01)
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:
This tripped me up before I realized what had happened.
If you have your root partition (/) on an LVM Logical Volume, but your /boot
partition on a regular partition (as I do above so I can use GRUB), DI
assumes my root (/) is also a regular partition and does not include the
necessary LVM2 stuff in my initrd image. I can install either GRUB or LILO
at this point. The system fails to boot.
I verified this by wipping the system and not specifying /dev/sda1 as /boot in
partman, but instead allowing it to place /boot on my LVM root (/)
partition, /dev/mapper/sys-root. It correctly created the initrd and
correctly allowed me to only install LILO.
As this combination of partitions, with a regular partition being /boot and a
LVM LV being root (/), is a valid combination that leaves the system
unbootable, I thought I'd report it.
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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
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still present, please reiterate your installation test with
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