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Package: installation-reports
Boot method: CD
Image version: debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso, 1/16/2006, debian.org
Date: 1/16/2006, many times
Machine: ASUS K8N-E Mobo (nVidia nForce3 256Gb chipset)
Processor: AMD Sempron 3400+
Memory: 1GB
Partitions: Well, that's the problem...
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: [E]
Partition hard drives: [E]
Create file systems: [E]
Mount partitions: [ ]
Install base system: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Reboot: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
This motherboard has two onboard IDE controllers and two onboard SATA
controllers. I have tried several different configurations of the
harddrives and dvd-rom drive, all with the same basic failure. For
example, in the simple configuration:
1 HD on primary IDE (jumpered to cable select)
1 DVD burner on secondary IDE (jumpered to cable select)
the installer finds the following ide hosts
Device Major Minor
/dev/ide/host-1/bus1/target/lun0/cd 22 0
/dev/ide/host-1/bus1/target/lun0/disk 3 0
/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/part 3 1
/dev/ide/host2/bus1/target2/lun0/part 3 2
/dev/ide/host4/bus1/target5/lun0/part 3 5
Yep, that is host-1, as in host-negative-one, and yep, the partitions of
that disk are showing up on other ide hosts. That seems odd already.
When I partition the disk (w/o LVM, automatically setup as one big
partition), it seems to work (on
/dev/ide/host-1/bus1/target/lun0/disk0). When it attempts to create the
ext3 filesystem on the new partition, it gets to 100%, and then reports
that filesystem creation failed. If I look on console 4, I see several
messages:
partman: tune2fs: No such file or directory while trying to open
/dev/ide/host-1/bus1/target/lun0/part1
partman: Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.
partman: mke2fs 1.39-WIP (31-Dec-2005)
partman: Could not stat /dev/ide/host-1/bus1/target/lun0/part1 - No such
file or directory
partman:
partman: The device apparently does not exist; did you specify correctly?
Also, at this point, /dev/ide/host2 is gone. This all occurs even if I
disable the SATA controllers in the bios.
If I try the install24 option, with or without SATA enabled in the BIOS,
then I get a much saner set of ide devices:
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/{disc,part1,part2,part5}
bus1/target0/lun0/cd
But install24 fails with the installer message box
Error while running 'modprobe -v forcedeth'
I've also tried the 3.1r1 network installer. Both the 2.4 and 2.6
kernels see the good ide configuration, but fail to detect my network card.
I just tried the etch beta 1 installer, and everything works.
I hope this information helps you track down this odd bug. Thanks for
all your hard work.
Best,
Rob
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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
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Many thanks for your understanding and your help improving Debian,
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