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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: installation-reports: Failed to install on x86 with d-i beta4 -- Several problems
- From: Gilles Sadowski <gilles@harfang.homelinux.org>
- Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 00:58:02 +0200
- Message-id: <20040519225802.GA8059@harfang.homelinux.org>
Package: installation-reports
Severity: important
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.5+g3
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
[Here is the filled-in template from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/report-template]
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: May 19, 2004 -- http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/beta4/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
uname -a: Not done
Date: May 19, 2004
Method: expert26 -- Network install, from ftp.be.debian.org
Machine: PC-compatible
Processor: AMD 1GHz
Memory: 710520 kB
Root Device: IDE -- /dev/hdc8
Root Size/partition table:
Partition Table for /dev/hda
---Starting--- ----Ending---- Start Number of
# Flags Head Sect Cyl ID Head Sect Cyl Sector Sectors
-- ----- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----------- -----------
1 0x80 1 1 0 0x06 254 63 11 63 192717
2 0x00 0 1 12 0x83 254 63 120 192780 1751085
3 0x00 0 1 121 0x82 254 63 266 1943865 2345490
4 0x00 0 1 267 0x05 254 63 1023 4289355 152055225
5 0x00 1 1 267 0x83 254 63 272 63 96327
6 0x00 1 1 273 0x83 254 63 624 63 5654817
7 0x00 1 1 625 0x0B 254 63 1023 63 13671252
8 0x00 254 63 1023 0x07 254 63 1023 63 11261502
9 0x00 254 63 1023 0x07 254 63 1023 63 38989692
10 0x00 254 63 1023 0x0C 254 63 1023 63 43503957
11 0x00 254 63 1023 0x83 254 63 1023 63 8048502
12 0x00 254 63 1023 0x83 254 63 1023 63 5847597
13 0x00 254 63 1023 0x83 254 63 1023 63 16996707
14 0x00 254 63 1023 0x83 254 63 1023 63 7743267
15 0x00 254 63 1023 0x83 254 63 1023 63 240912
Partition Table for /dev/hdc
---Starting--- ----Ending---- Start Number of
# Flags Head Sect Cyl ID Head Sect Cyl Sector Sectors
-- ----- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----------- -----------
1 0x00 1 1 0 0x83 254 63 1 63 32067
2 0x00 0 1 2 0x8E 254 63 163 32130 2602530
3 0x00 0 1 164 0x83 254 63 1023 2634660 32451300
4 0x00 254 63 1023 0x05 254 63 1023 35085960 24948945
5 0x00 254 63 1023 0x83 254 63 1023 63 15631182
6 0x00 254 63 1023 0x8E 254 63 1023 63 1188747
7 0x00 254 63 1023 0x83 254 63 1023 63 7743267
8 0x00 254 63 1023 0x83 254 63 1023 63 385497
Output of lspci: Not done
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked: [E]
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: [E]
Mount partitions: [E]
Install base system: [O]
Install boot loader: [E]
Reboot: [O]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
* Problem 1
In the first try, I used the following options (as exemplified in <F7> key menu):
expert26 bootkb=be hw-detect/start_pcmcia=false netcfg/use_dhcp=false
Then I got:
Kernel panic: Too many boot env vars at 'netcfg/use_dhcp=false'
So in the second try, I left out the 'hw-detect/start_pcmcia=false' option, and it worked.
* Problem 2
>From already installed system, I had prepared the partitions to be used for the new one.
I wanted to use LVM. In the "partitioning" configuration, I asked that
/dev/hdc2
/dev/hdc6
should be used as physical devices for LVM. But when I selected "Configure LVM", I got
LVM not available. You should load the lvm-mod module.
But I could not find it from the "components to load from the CD".
* Problem 3a
I asked that GRUB be installed on (hd1).
But on booting from that disk, the screen was endlessly filled with
GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB .... GRUB
GRUB GRUB .....
....
* Problem 3b
[Note: In the partitioning, I had asked to reuse (no formatting!) my
existing /boot partition (/dev/hda5).]
Because of 3a, I booted from (hd0), as usual, to be surprised that my
'menu.lst' had been modified to contain the wrong 'root' boot option
for the existing kernels:
root=/dev/hdc8
was added to all, including where before it was
root=/dev/hda15
I would think that existing entries in 'menu.lst' should not be changed!
* Problem 4
The "Configure timezone" menu item doesn't work: when selcting it, the
menu flickers, but nothing more happens.
* Problem 5
[Consequence of problem 2]
Somehow I was allowed to go on with the install after the LVM error
message, although I hadn't selected partitions other than those to be
mounted as /root and /boot. So in the "package install" I got many
No space left on device
and then
INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes.
And that was the end of it :-{
Best regards,
Gilles
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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
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