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Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Install report - Installer/install problems net/disk versions 2.4/2.6 Sarge on ASUSmb-Nvidia-SATA
Gentle people,
My problems with this install are over as I now have a working machine.
Pasted in below is the information that you requested
My apologies if you are using sed/awk variants to search for material
between < > Some got removed and I realized after the fact that may be
the case and I am not sure where to place them now.
Regards
Wayne
Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version:
This covers almost a month of attempts - Official site
net-install/business card installer/nightly versions and a final
successful install with a full disk bit torrent download in early May.
original "testing" images were dated within a few days of April 27/2005
and and included the standard business card and nightly versions.
uname -a: <The result of running uname -a on a shell prompt>
Linux debian 2.6.8-200505121 #1 Sat May 21 11:27:12 EDT 2005 i686
GNU/Linux
(I kept the version down in the kernel due to some difficulties seen on
the web in the more recent kernels.)
Date: The last week of April and first three weeks of May were needed
for this install due to difficulties and only being able to work on it a
couple of hours a day, longer on weekends ;-)
Method: Network install - failed as described below
Succeeded, finally, with full disk set (downloaded with bit torrent in
early May)
Machine: <Asus K8N UAYZ >
Processor: Athelon64 3000+
Memory: 1G
Root Device: SATA Seagate 200Gb 7200rpm/8Mb/ S/N 91134184 hde
Root Size/partition table:
I used the defaults in installer.
First time - multi user machine (4-5? partitions) but "/" was
apparently too small (250Mb) to recompile kernels/install needed
modules/new kernels
Second time desktop machine (3 partitions)
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00e1 (rev
a1)
0000:00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00e0 (rev
a2)
0000:00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00e4 (rev a1)
0000:00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00e7
(rev a1)
0000:00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00e7
(rev a1)
0000:00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00e8
(rev a2)
0000:00:05.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00df (rev a2)
0000:00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown
device 00ea (rev a1)
0000:00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00e5 (rev
a2)
0000:00:0a.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00e3 (rev
a2)
0000:00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00e2 (rev
a2)
0000:00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00ed (rev
a2)
0000:00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
0000:00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
0000:00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
0000:00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce
FX 5200] (rev a1)
0000:00:00.0 0600: 10de:00e1 (rev a1)
0000:00:01.0 0601: 10de:00e0 (rev a2)
0000:00:01.1 0c05: 10de:00e4 (rev a1)
0000:00:02.0 0c03: 10de:00e7 (rev a1)
0000:00:02.1 0c03: 10de:00e7 (rev a1)
0000:00:02.2 0c03: 10de:00e8 (rev a2)
0000:00:05.0 0680: 10de:00df (rev a2)
0000:00:06.0 0401: 10de:00ea (rev a1)
0000:00:08.0 0101: 10de:00e5 (rev a2)
0000:00:0a.0 0101: 10de:00e3 (rev a2)
0000:00:0b.0 0604: 10de:00e2 (rev a2)
0000:00:0e.0 0604: 10de:00ed (rev a2)
0000:00:18.0 0600: 1022:1100
0000:00:18.1 0600: 1022:1101
0000:00:18.2 0600: 1022:1102
0000:00:18.3 0600: 1022:1103
0000:01:00.0 0300: 10de:0322 (rev a1)
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
2.4 2.6
Initial boot worked: [O] 0
Configure network HW: [E] Y
Config network: [E] Y
Detect CD: [O] Y
Load installer modules: [O] Y
Detect hard drives: [O] N
Partition hard drives: [O] N
Create file systems: [O] -
Mount partitions: [O] -
Install base system: [O] -
Install boot loader: [O] -
Reboot: [O] -
Comments/Problems:
<Description of the install, in prose, and any thoughts, comments
and ideas you had during the initial install.>
NET INSTALLER - It didn't work. Could not get both the hard drive
recognized and the network interface recognized at the same time. Tried
various options/searches on the internet /talking with people that knew
more than me, etc.
As an aside, the net installer was slick and very impressive when I used
on an old machine. However, using it on this machine gave me a number
of problems, generally related to the on board network interface and
SATA / Nvidia drivers.
All install options tried with the different kernels 2.4/2.6 and
expert / standard did not work. In general:
2.4 kernels saw the hard drive, but didn't see the network card
(connected to a router);
2.6 kernel options did not see the hard drive but did not see the
network.
I could not find any specific references to my problems on the web but
did find many apparently related problems with SATA and tried a number
of work arounds with no success.
DISK INSTALL
Same problems as above.
Solution:
Installed 2.4 kernel, and used that to compile a custom 2.6 kernel to
deal with above SATA eth0 problems. (Installing the most recent kernel
downloaded with another machine did not work)
It would appear that the 2.6 installer may not have a kernel with
compiled drivers needed for the hard drive, while the 2.4 installer
does? (Somewhere one of my readings said these had to be compiled
rather than included in modules. That worked for me.)
I also had trouble with the forcedeth driver in the 2.6 kernel and in
the end used the NVidia drivers in a tainted kernel.
Install logs and other status info is available
in /var/log/debian-installer/.
My problems are solved but if there is a specific piece of information
that would assist you in sorting this problem out in a general sense for
others, I will provide it.
Overall this Debian software has greatly advanced over the past few
years and I appreciate all the good work people are putting into this
effort.
Cheers
Wayne
dmesg output is below
Linux version 2.6.8-200505121 (root@debian) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian
1:3.3.5-8)) #1 Sat May 21 11:27:12 EDT 2005
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e4000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003ffc0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000003ffc0000 - 000000003ffd0000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000003ffd0000 - 0000000040000000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ff7c0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
127MB HIGHMEM available.
896MB LOWMEM available.
found SMP MP-table at 000ff780
On node 0 totalpages: 262080
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:16
HighMem zone: 32704 pages, LIFO batch:7
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 ACPIAM ) @
0x000fa010
ACPI: RSDT (v001 A M I OEMRSDT 0x11000426 MSFT 0x00000097) @
0x3ffc0000
ACPI: FADT (v002 A M I OEMFACP 0x11000426 MSFT 0x00000097) @
0x3ffc0200
ACPI: MADT (v001 A M I OEMAPIC 0x11000426 MSFT 0x00000097) @
0x3ffc0390
ACPI: OEMB (v001 A M I OEMBIOS 0x11000426 MSFT 0x00000097) @
0x3ffd0040
ACPI: DSDT (v001 A0128 A0128003 0x00000003 INTL 0x02002026) @
0x00000000
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Processor #0 15:12 APIC version 16
Using ACPI for processor (LAPIC) configuration information
Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.1
Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
OEM ID: TEMPLATE Product ID: APIC at: 0xFEE00000
I/O APIC #1 Version 17 at 0xFEC00000.
Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
Processors: 1
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hde1 ro
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order 12: 32768 bytes)
Detected 2009.583 MHz processor.
Using tsc for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 1034172k/1048320k available (2489k kernel code, 13236k reserved,
1151k data, 172k init, 130816k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...
Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 3981.31 BogoMIPS
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 078bfbff e1d3fbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 078bfbff e1d3fbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: After all inits, caps: 078bfbff e1d3fbff 00000000 00000010
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ stepping 00
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
Setting 1 in the phys_id_present_map
...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 1 ... ok.
init IO_APIC IRQs
IO-APIC (apicid-pin) 1-0, 1-16, 1-17, 1-18, 1-19, 1-20, 1-21, 1-22,
1-23 not connected.
..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=0
..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
...trying to set up timer (IRQ0) through the 8259A ...
..... (found pin 0) ...works.
number of MP IRQ sources: 16.
number of IO-APIC #1 registers: 24.
testing the IO APIC.......................
IO APIC #1......
.... register #00: 01000000
....... : physical APIC id: 01
....... : Delivery Type: 0
....... : LTS : 0
.... register #01: 00170011
....... : max redirection entries: 0017
....... : PRQ implemented: 0
....... : IO APIC version: 0011
.... register #02: 01000000
....... : arbitration: 01
.... IRQ redirection table:
NR Log Phy Mask Trig IRR Pol Stat Dest Deli Vect:
00 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 31
01 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 39
02 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
03 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 41
04 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 49
05 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 51
06 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 59
07 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 61
08 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 69
09 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 71
0a 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 79
0b 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 81
0c 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 89
0d 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 91
0e 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 99
0f 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 A1
10 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
11 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
12 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
13 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
14 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
15 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
16 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
17 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
IRQ to pin mappings:
IRQ0 -> 0:0
IRQ1 -> 0:1
IRQ3 -> 0:3
IRQ4 -> 0:4
IRQ5 -> 0:5
IRQ6 -> 0:6
IRQ7 -> 0:7
IRQ8 -> 0:8
IRQ9 -> 0:9
IRQ10 -> 0:10
IRQ11 -> 0:11
IRQ12 -> 0:12
IRQ13 -> 0:13
IRQ14 -> 0:14
IRQ15 -> 0:15
.................................... done.
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 2009.0473 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 200.0947 MHz.
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0031, last bus=2
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Using IRQ router default [10de/00e0] at 0000:00:01.0
vesafb: probe of vesafb0 failed with error -6
highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x0
NTFS driver 2.1.15 [Flags: R/O].
udf: registering filesystem
Initializing Cryptographic API
lp: driver loaded but no devices found
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected AGP bridge 0
agpgart: Setting up Nforce3 AGP.
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 941M
agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xf0000000
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing
disabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
parport0: PC-style at 0x278 (0x678) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: irq 7 detected
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
Using anticipatory io scheduler
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
NFORCE3-250: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:08.0
NFORCE3-250: chipset revision 162
NFORCE3-250: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
NFORCE3-250: 0000:00:08.0 (rev a2) UDMA133 controller
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4081B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
NFORCE3-250-SATA: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:0a.0
NFORCE3-250-SATA: chipset revision 162
NFORCE3-250-SATA: BIOS didn't set cable bits correctly. Enabling
workaround.
NFORCE3-250-SATA: 0000:00:0a.0 (rev a2) UDMA133 controller
NFORCE3-250-SATA: 100% native mode on irq 10
ide2: BM-DMA at 0xc800-0xc807, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
ide3: BM-DMA at 0xc808-0xc80f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
hde: ST3200822AS, ATA DISK drive
ide2 at 0x9f0-0x9f7,0xbf2 on irq 10
hde: max request size: 1024KiB
hde: 390721968 sectors (200049 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=24321/255/63
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 p6 >
hda: ATAPI 32X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
ieee1394: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized
paride: epat registered as protocol 0
pd: pd version 1.05, major 45, cluster 64, nice 0
pda: Autoprobe failed
pd: no valid drive found
pcd: pcd version 1.07, major 46, nice 0
pcd0: Autoprobe failed
pcd: No CD-ROM drive found
pf: pf version 1.04, major 47, cluster 64, nice 0
pf: No ATAPI disk detected
pg: pg version 1.02, major 97
pga: Autoprobe failed
pg: No ATAPI device detected
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: PC Speaker
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse on isa0060/serio1
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.4 (Mon May 17
14:31:44 2004 UTC).
no UART detected at 0x1
specify port
ALSA device list:
#0: Virtual MIDI Card 1
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
Initializing IPsec netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 10
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
NET: Registered protocol family 17
NET: Registered protocol family 15
BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 1 devices found
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 172k freed
Adding 2714944k swap on /dev/hde5. Priority:-1 extents:1
EXT3 FS on hde1, internal journal
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hde6, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
ehci_hcd 0000:00:02.2: PCI device 10de:00e8 (nVidia Corporation)
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:02.2 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:02.2: irq 10, pci mem f8998c00
ehci_hcd 0000:00:02.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
PCI: cache line size of 64 is not supported by device 0000:00:02.2
ehci_hcd 0000:00:02.2: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2004-May-10
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
nvnet: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:05.0 to 64
Nvsound: Nvidia Audio Init Module, 12:07:37 May 21 2005 version 1.0-2
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:06.0 to 64
Nvsound: NVIDIA CK8S Audio aci 0xe400 and ac97 0xe800, IRQ b
Nvsound: DEV MIXER 0 DEV AUDIO 3
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c0437fa0(lo)
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
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cdrom: open failed.
cdrom: open failed.
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