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Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/alpha/20050501/sarge-alpha-netinst.iso
uname -a: Linux fchelp 2.6.10-1-generic #1 Sun Mar 13 10:58:58 UTC 2005 alpha GNU/Linux
(already upgraded to sid, install was done with default kernel vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-generic)
Date: 5/2/2005 11:30 EDT
Method: 'b dqa0 -fl i' at SRM, to find menu item with alpha serial console ttys0
Machine: AlphaServer DS10 (Tsunami Webbrick)
Processor: Alpha EV6 466 Mhz
Memory: 1Gb
Root Device: scsi
Root Size/partition table:
(NOTE: partition table generated in Tru64)
fchelp:~# fdisk -lu /dev/sdc
Disk /dev/sdc: 9100 MB, 9100044288 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 8678 cylinders, total 17773524 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
8 partitions:
# start end size fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
a: 4096 20479 16384 unused 0 0
b: 20480 2117631 2097152 swap
c: 0 17773523 17773524 unused 0 0
d: 2117632 10530815 8413184 ext2
e: 10530816 12627967 2097152 ext2
f: 12627968 12890111 262144 ext2
g: 12890112 15676371 2786260 ext2
h: 15676372 17773523 2097152 ext2
fchelp:~# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdc4 4140528 907184 3023016 24% /
tmpfs 515504 0 515504 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sdc7 1371212 20 1301536 1% /home
/dev/sdc6 122835 16 116266 1% /tmp
/dev/sdc5 982728 151766 778534 17% /var
/dev/sdc8 1032088 20 979640 1% /usr/tmp
none 10240 5584 4656 55% /dev
Output of lspci and lspci -n
fchelp:~# lspci
0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV] (rev c3)
0000:00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 41)
0000:00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 41)
0000:00:0d.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c1)
0000:00:0e.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c895 (rev 02)
0000:00:0f.0 SCSI storage controller: QLogic Corp. ISP1020 Fast-wide SCSI (rev 05)
fchelp:~# lspci -n
0000:00:07.0 0601: 10b9:1533 (rev c3)
0000:00:09.0 0200: 1011:0019 (rev 41)
0000:00:0b.0 0200: 1011:0019 (rev 41)
0000:00:0d.0 0101: 10b9:5229 (rev c1)
0000:00:0e.0 0100: 1000:000c (rev 02)
0000:00:0f.0 0100: 1077:1020 (rev 05)
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:
Everthing went well. While I have marked two things
above as errors, they are not critical.
Problem with installing the boot loader:
I tried to *not* install aboot on the system, since d-i
always messes with the beginning of my disk so that Tru64
can't read the label anymore. I wanted to do 'swriteboot'
by hand, so I did not create an aboot partition, and d-i
initially told me that it would not put aboot on the disk.
But then after the packages were installed, d-i went ahead
and tried to put aboot on the disk anyway. Even when the
aboot installation fails the beginning of the disk is
corrupted. The install can be saved, since the problem
can be repaired by rewriting the disklabel in Tru64 and
then running swriteboot by hand from another debian
installation or bootable cd. But it would be nice if
d-i would not corrupt the beginning of the disk, whether
it writes aboot out there or not.
Problem with reboot:
For serial console-only systems, 'console=ttyS0' is not
appended to the boot flags. If you think about it ahead
of time, you can get into a shell from within d-i
and 'fix' the aboot.conf by hand.
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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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