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Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: 2005-10-20
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/i386/iso-cd/debian-31r0a-i386-netinst.iso
uname -a: I'm installing a new system
Date: 2005-10-20
Method: From the downloaded CD, kernel: linux26, same with linux
Machine: Intel-based PC motherboard ASUS P4P800
Processor: Intel Pentium 4
Memory: 512MB
Root Device: n/a
Root Size/partition table: n/a
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub
Interface (rev 02)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller
(rev 02)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI
#1 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI
#2 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI
#3 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI
#4 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI
Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Bridge
(rev 02)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) Ultra ATA
100 Storage Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller
(rev 02)
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER
(ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AP
[Radeon 9600]
0000:01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AP [Radeon
9600] (Secondary)
0000:02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Yukon
Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter (rev 13)
0000:02:09.0 RAID bus controller: Triones Technologies, Inc. HPT374 (rev
07)
0000:02:09.1 RAID bus controller: Triones Technologies, Inc. HPT374 (rev
07)
0000:02:0b.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M
[Tornado] (rev 78)
0000:02:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1
(rev 0a)
0000:02:0c.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game
Port (rev 0a)
0000:00:00.0 0600: 8086:2570 (rev 02)
0000:00:01.0 0604: 8086:2571 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:24d2 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.1 0c03: 8086:24d4 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.2 0c03: 8086:24d7 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.3 0c03: 8086:24de (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.7 0c03: 8086:24dd (rev 02)
0000:00:1e.0 0604: 8086:244e (rev c2)
0000:00:1f.0 0601: 8086:24d0 (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.1 0101: 8086:24db (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.3 0c05: 8086:24d3 (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.5 0401: 8086:24d5 (rev 02)
0000:01:00.0 0300: 1002:4150
0000:01:00.1 0380: 1002:4170
0000:02:05.0 0200: 11ab:4320 (rev 13)
0000:02:09.0 0104: 1103:0008 (rev 07)
0000:02:09.1 0104: 1103:0008 (rev 07)
0000:02:0b.0 0200: 10b7:9200 (rev 78)
0000:02:0c.0 0401: 1102:0002 (rev 0a)
0000:02:0c.1 0980: 1102:7002 (rev 0a)
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: [E]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Reboot: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
Following is a snapshot of the partitions taken from a system, I've worked
around the problem, further infos below.
# sfdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 9729 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 0+ 485 486- 3903763+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 9243 9728 486 3903795 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda3 486 4132 3647 29294527+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
Disk /dev/hde: 30515 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/hde1 0+ 30514 30515- 245111706 fd Linux raid
autodetect
/dev/hde2 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/hde3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/hde4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
Disk /dev/hdg: 30515 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/hdg1 0+ 30514 30515- 245111706 fd Linux raid
autodetect
/dev/hdg2 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/hdg3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/hdg4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
Disk /dev/hdi: 30515 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/hdi1 0+ 30514 30515- 245111706 fd Linux raid
autodetect
/dev/hdi2 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/hdi3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/hdi4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
Disk /dev/hdk: 30515 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/hdk1 0+ 30514 30515- 245111706 fd Linux raid
autodetect
/dev/hdk2 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/hdk3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/hdk4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
Disk /dev/md0: 183833712 cylinders, 2 heads, 4 sectors/track
sfdisk: ERROR: sector 0 does not have an msdos signature
/dev/md0: unrecognized partition table type
No partitions found
Layout of the physical disks as above, /dev/md0 is a LVM2 volume with
several partitions on it.
I tried to install the system onto the RAID/LVM2 combo entirely, with the
only exception of the /boot directory, hence:
/dev/mapper/raid5-system / ext3 defaults
/dev/hda1 /boot ext3 defaults
(During my tests, /dev/hda1 had been 1GB, but otherwise the info of the
sfdisk -l is identical.)
The base install proceeds OK until it tries to install the kernel v2.6;
there is a note of to boot as soon as possible, then the installer seems
to do nothing for quite some time.
Eventually mkinitrd fails (well it's not the exact wording):
mkinitrd: redirect error cannot duplicate fd: Too many open files
kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386
exit status 255
When I mount /dev/hda1 to / (aka let install the system to /dev/hda1) I
get some warnings about Symlinks and a "Hey?" from mkinitrd, but they
scroll away too fast, but the installation proceeds.
Bye,
--
Steffen Kaiser
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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
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