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Package: installation-reports
Boot method: netinst CD
Image version:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/etch_di_beta2/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso
Date: 4-27-6 04:30
Machine: Compaq ProLiant ML350
Processor: 2 x 933MHz Pentium III
Memory: 1GB ECC SDRAM
Partitions:
voxluna@amphion:~$ df -Tl
Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/ida/c0d0p4
reiserfs 15919636 332184 15587452 3% /
tmpfs tmpfs 516776 0 516776 0% /dev/shm
/dev/ida/c0d0p1
ext2 45863 8904 32065 22% /boot
/dev/ida/c0d0p3
ext2 914108 14 816610 1% /tmp
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
voxluna@amphion:~$ lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Broadcom CNB20LE Host Bridge (rev 05)
0000:00:00.1 Host bridge: Broadcom CNB20LE Host Bridge (rev 05)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21152
(rev 03)
0000:00:03.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
1.1 Controller (rev 50)
0000:00:03.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
1.1 Controller (rev 50)
0000:00:03.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 51)
0000:00:0f.0 ISA bridge: Broadcom OSB4 South Bridge (rev 4f)
0000:00:0f.1 IDE interface: Broadcom OSB4 IDE Controller
0000:01:04.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic
53C896/897 (rev 05)
0000:01:04.1 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic
53C896/897 (rev 05)
0000:01:05.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 [Ethernet
Pro 100] (rev 08)
0000:01:06.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage IIC
215IIC [Mach64 GT IIC] (rev 7a)
0000:01:07.0 System peripheral: Compaq Computer Corporation Advanced
System Management Controller
0000:05:02.0 PCI bridge: IBM IBM27-82351 (rev 07)
0000:06:00.0 Mass storage controller: Compaq Computer Corporation
Smart-2/P RAID Controller (rev 03)
voxluna@amphion:~$ lspci -n
0000:00:00.0 0600: 1166:0009 (rev 05)
0000:00:00.1 0600: 1166:0009 (rev 05)
0000:00:01.0 0604: 1011:0024 (rev 03)
0000:00:03.0 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 50)
0000:00:03.1 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 50)
0000:00:03.2 0c03: 1106:3104 (rev 51)
0000:00:0f.0 0601: 1166:0200 (rev 4f)
0000:00:0f.1 0101: 1166:0211
0000:01:04.0 0100: 1000:000b (rev 05)
0000:01:04.1 0100: 1000:000b (rev 05)
0000:01:05.0 0200: 8086:1229 (rev 08)
0000:01:06.0 0300: 1002:4756 (rev 7a)
0000:01:07.0 0880: 0e11:a0f0
0000:05:02.0 0604: 1014:0022 (rev 07)
0000:06:00.0 0180: 0e11:ae10 (rev 03)
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: [E]
Install base system: [E]
Install boot loader: [E]
Reboot: [E]
Comments/Problems:
1) Using "expert", if I format a partition as XFS, and then choose to
install a 2.4 kernel, the XFS module fails insmod after initial reboot,
and it panics. Note that when using "expert24" to boot the netinst CD
(thus not using a 2.6 kernel during installation), you don't see XFS as
an available filesystem. Maybe this is obvious to some people, but it
took me a while to figure out why it happened.
2) Starting an install using a 2.6 kernel, I never was able to load the
cpqarray driver properly to allow the / partition to be mounted after
the initial reboot, and thus finalize the installation. The error says
"/dev/ida!c0d0p4 does not exist, dropping to shell". Although the info
at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=251905 suggests a
problem with Grub, the bug report refers to software/LVM, not hardware
RAID (which I have).
If Grub IS the problem, then you can't install LILO + 2.6:
3) Even though LILO is given as an option in "expert" mode, you can't
install it as bootloader in 2.6, you just get a red screen.
Also, I found this in the Debian-Installer FAQ:
Q: What about SMP support?
A: ...it would be nice if SMP was automatically detected and
the appropriate kernel was chosen ... The installer attempts
to do this. If it fails to notice that it needs a SMP kernel
on your machine, please file a detailed installation report.
It did not install an SMP kernel. But, consider that I couldn't finish
the 2.6 install due to #2 above, and thus I was using "expert24"; maybe
it would have done otherwise. Further, I didn't install any software
with tasksel, not even "standard system". Later, I WAS able to "apt-get
linux-image-686-smp" which is now running:
voxluna@amphion:~$ uname -a
Linux amphion 2.4.27-2-686-smp #1 SMP Wed Nov 30 21:47:06 JST 2005 i686
GNU/Linux
.''`. Jeff Bonner, PO Box 401 Highland MI 48357 USA
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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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