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Package: installation-reports
Boot method: <How did you boot the installer? CD? floppy? network?> CD
Image version: <Full URL to image you downloaded is best> Main US Debian
mirror; I used Jigdo to get the template for CD1 LennyBeta2 AMD64 - Kernel
downloaded: 2.6.24-1 AMD64
Date: <Date and time of the install> 10/17 P.M.
Machine: <Description of machine (eg, IBM Thinkpad R32)> Custom Build; Asus
P5QL PRO motherboard, 320GB PATA Seagate HD, 1 USB 2.0 port, SONY IDE DVD
reader, Trendnet 10/100 Mbps Ethernet PCI adapter. I wanted to keep the
hardware as plain vanilla as possible. There is an onboard Gigabit Ethernet
controller that had only drivers for old versions of Red Hat and SUSE, so I
didn't want to mess with it.
Processor: Intel Q6600 2.4GHz quad core.
Memory: 8 GB DDR2 1066
Partitions: <df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred>
Disk /dev/hda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x94dd94dd
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 3647 29294496 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 * 3648 3708 489982+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 3709 7963 34178287+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 7964 9787 14651280 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 7964 9787 14651248+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Disk /dev/sda: 4103 MB, 4103938560 bytes
128 heads, 63 sectors/track, 993 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8064 * 512 = 4128768 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0113691f
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 992 3999649 b W95 FAT32
Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn):
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Eaglelake DRAM Controller
[8086:2e20] (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Eaglelake PCI Express Root Port
[8086:2e21] (rev 02)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation ICH10 USB UHCI Controller
#4 [8086:3a37]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd
00:1a.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation ICH10 USB UHCI Controller
#5 [8086:3a38]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd
00:1a.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation ICH10 USB UHCI Controller
#6 [8086:3a39]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd
00:1a.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation ICH10 USB2 EHCI Controller
#2 [8086:3a3c]
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
Kernel modules: ehci-hcd
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation ICH10 HD Audio Controller
[8086:3a3e]
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation ICH10 PCI Express Port 1
[8086:3a40]
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1c.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation ICH10 PCI Express Port 5
[8086:3a48]
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1c.5 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation ICH10 PCI Express Port 6
[8086:3a4a]
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation ICH10 USB UHCI Controller
#1 [8086:3a34]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation ICH10 USB UHCI Controller
#2 [8086:3a35]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation ICH10 USB UHCI Controller
#3 [8086:3a36]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation ICH10 USB2 EHCI Controller
#1 [8086:3a3a]
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
Kernel modules: ehci-hcd
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge [8086:244e]
(rev 90)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation ICH10 LPC Interface Controller
[8086:3a18]
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation ICH10 SMBus Controller [8086:3a30]
Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus
Kernel modules: i2c-i801
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation NV44 [GeForce
6200 LE] [10de:0163] (rev a1)
Kernel modules: nvidiafb
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Attansic Technology Corp. Device
[1969:1026] (rev b0)
03:00.0 IDE interface [0101]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE6101
single-port PATA133 interface [11ab:6101] (rev b2)
Kernel driver in use: PCI_IDE
Kernel modules: generic, ata_generic, pata_marvell
05:02.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ [10ec:8139] (rev 10)
Kernel driver in use: 8139too
Kernel modules: 8139cp, 8139too
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [E]
Detect network card: [O]
Configure network: [O]
Detect CD: [E]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [E]
Install base system: [O]
Clock/timezone setup: [O]
User/password setup: [O]
Install tasks: [O]
Install boot loader: [E?]
Overall install: [O] (finally)
Comments/Problems: The boot parameter generic.all_generic_ide=1 used with
the install command (which was accepted by the Etch install) was not
recognized by Lenny -igonored. Using the same parameter with the expert
command was recognized. The prior Etch install had no problems with my USB
port while Lenny required an irqpoll parameter to boot (expert mode; I
abandoned the install command after it wouldn't take the
generic.all_generic_ide=1 option; that was originally used in Etch because
its install did not recognize my plain vanilla IDE DVD reader which I had
installed after Etch had problems with my sata DVD burner). I also used
noapic nolapic and hwdetect/start_pcmicia=false boot parameters to be on the
safe side. The boot loader installed according to the screen message but
when I booted into the system it couldn't find the kernel. I used GRUB
commands to locate the kernel and wrote the proper paths for it to boot
properly, but I got a message saying that the kernel needed to be loaded
before the system would boot. The problem apparently turned out to be in
the manual partitioning. I originally set up the partitions as listed in
the mount point table given, and first set up all the mount points /, /boot.
/var, /home, /usr, /tmp, /opt, etc. and a swap space as the original
partitioning. I set them up in the sequence given by the table with one
exception - /boot was the first partition and / the second - everything else
was in sequence. From GRUB I saw that when the partitions were written to
disk and the files installed, boot, var, usr, tmp, etc. all were written to
/. This seemed to indicate that the installation wrote files to partitions
not dictated by the partition table. So I did finally get Lenny installed
by setting up the following partitions in sequence: /, /boot, /home, and
swap. In either case the bootable flag was set for the /boot partition. In
the second case the system booted and I was able to install further
packages. Since I have leaped six ranks up to Rank Amateur with Debian, it
may have been me, but there seems to be a problem with the installer writing
files to the wrong partitions.
<Description of the install, in prose, and any thoughts, comments
and ideas you had during the initial install.>
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