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Bug#459588: marked as done (amd64 mini.iso installation problems)

Your message dated Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:58:28 +0000
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and subject line Closing old installation report #459588
has caused the Debian Bug report #459588,
regarding amd64 mini.iso installation problems
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Title: amd64 mini.iso installation problems

Package: installation-reports

Boot method: the amd64 mini.iso downloaded here: 
Image version: ftp://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-amd64/current/images/gtk-miniiso/mini.iso
Date: 1 January 2008 around 8:00 PM Australian EDST

Machine: Home-built with Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 mobo, Seagate SATAII 500GB 7200RPM hard drive with NCQ and 16MB cache, ATI Radeon X300 PCI-express video card with 128MB of RAM, SilverStone ST56F 560watt PSU, Coolermaster Mystique Full Tower Case, and a Pioneer DVR-111D 16x dual layer DVD burner
Processor: Intel Q6600
Memory: 2GB of Corsair Value Select PC-5300 memory
Partitions: installed system won't boot, but I had /dev/sda1 4GB swap, /dev/sda6 10GB ext3 "/", and /dev/sda7 30GB ext3 for "/home"

Output of lspci -nn and lspci -vnn: Can't do that because install simply drops me to (initramfs) prompt

Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot:           [O]
Detect network card:    [O]
Configure network:      [O]
Detect CD:              [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives:     [O]
Partition hard drives:  [O]
Install base system:    [O]
Clock/timezone setup:   [O]
User/password setup:    [O]
Install tasks:          [O] the only extra thing I chose was "File Server" for Samba
Install boot loader:    [O]
Overall install:        [E]

Comments/Problems:

After apparently successful install, this is all I get after rebooting (I wrote this onto a piece of paper so there might be some slight transcribing errors):

ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0xB407
scsi1: ata_piix
ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0xBC07
ata_piix 0000:00:1f.5: MAP [ P0 P2 P1 P3 ]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xD000 ctl 0xD402 bmdma 0XE000 irq 177
ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xD800 ctl 0xDC02 bmdma 0XE008 irq 177
scsi2 : ata_piix
ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0xD007
scsi3 : ata_piix
ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0xD807
Done
Begin: Mounting root file system... ...
Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ...
Done.
         Check root= bootart cat /proc/cmdline
         or missing modules, devices: cat /proc/modules ls /dev
ALERT! /dev/sda6 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!


BusyBox v1.1.3 (Debian 1:1.1.3-4) Built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
(initramfs)


Kebianizao on irc.debian.org #debian got me to check a few things. Here's the output of those
ls -l /dev/sda*

  ls: /dev/sda*: No such file or directory


ls -l /dev/hda*

  ls: /dev/hda*: No such file or directory


cat /proc/cmdline

  root=/dev/sda6 ro


cat /proc/modules

  This output quite a lot and I'm sick of transcribing written-down messages, but here's what I would think is important (with details omitted where I reckon they're probably not that necessary and to save typing):

  ide_generic 5760 0 [permanent], Live 0xffffffff880d4000
  ide_cd
  cdrom
  usbhid
  ahci 25092 0 - Live 0xff....
  ata_piix 20360 0 - Live 0xff...
  libata 106784 2 ahci,ata_piix, Live 0xff...
  scsi_mod 153008 2 ahci,libata, Live 0xff...
  jmicron 9344 0 [permanent], Live 0xff...
  generic
  ehci_hcd
  ide_core 147584 4 ide_generic,ide_cd,jmicron,generic, Live 0xff...
  uhci_hcd
  thermal
  processor
  fan

I also tried editing the kernel command-line to use "acpi=off" and after doing so noticed a heap of partitions addressed as hdg? so I then specified root=/dev/hdg6 (with and without the "acpi=off") but couldn't get the full system to load, either.

I've evaluated five linux distros since 26 December 2007 - Kubuntu 7.10, PCLinuxOS 2007, openSUSE 10.3, Linux Mint 4.0, and Simply MEPIS 7 and all of them used these partitions without problems. Good hunting.


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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,
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