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Bug#360719: marked as done (Entries in exception lists should overrule default lists)

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has caused the Debian Bug report #360719,
regarding Entries in exception lists should overrule default lists
to be marked as done.

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Package: installation-reports

Boot method: RARP/TFTP
Image version: 
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-sparc/current/images/sparc64/netboot/2.6/
07-Mar-2005 01:32  5.3M  boot.img

Date: 2nd April 2006

Machine: Sun Netra X1
Processor: 
# cat /proc/cpuinfo

cpu             : TI UltraSparc IIe (Hummingbird)
fpu             : UltraSparc IIe integrated FPU
promlib         : Version 3 Revision 0
prom            : 4.0.9

Memory:
# cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:      1029576 kB

Partitions: 
fdisk -l /dev/hda durante la isntalacion y obtuve esto:

Disk /dev/hda (Sun disk label): 16 heads, 255 sectors, 19156 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4080 * 512 bytes

    Device Flag    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
    /dev/hda1         17722     19158   2929440   83  Linux native
    /dev/hda2         16765     17722   1952280   82  Linux swap
    /dev/hda3             0     19158  39082320    5  Whole disk

Output of lspci and lspci -n:
#lspci

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Ultra IIe
0000:00:03.0 Non-VGA unclassified device: ALi Corporation M7101 Power
Management Controller [PMU]
0000:00:05.0 Ethernet controller: Davicom Semiconductor, Inc. 21x4x
DEC-Tulip compatible 10/100 Ethernet (rev 31)
0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge
[Aladdin IV]
0000:00:0a.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Davicom Semiconductor, Inc. 21x4x
DEC-Tulip compatible 10/100 Ethernet (rev 31)
0000:00:0d.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c3)

#lspci -n
0000:00:00.0 0600: 108e:a001
0000:00:03.0 0000: 10b9:7101
0000:00:05.0 0200: 1282:9102 (rev 31)
0000:00:07.0 0601: 10b9:1533
0000:00:0a.0 0c03: 10b9:5237 (rev 03)
0000:00:0c.0 0200: 1282:9102 (rev 31)
0000:00:0d.0 0101: 10b9:5229 (rev c3)

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:         [ E ]
Detect CD:              [   ] -- This system does not have a CD-ROM
Load installer modules: [ O ]
Detect hard drives:     [ O ]
Partition hard drives:  [ O ]
Create file systems:    [ O ]
Mount partitions:       [ O ]
Install base system:    [ O ]
Install boot loader:    [ E ]
Reboot:                 [ E ]

Comments/Problems:

I have been unable to find this information at
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata

Netwokr config issue
--------------------

The first problem throughout the installation was the DHCP configuration
step, it goes through all the other steps without showing any error but this
step fails as it is not able to get an assigned IP address.

It turns out that the problem is due to the drivers being loaded. And this
issue have to be fixed in console. If you go to the console an run
'ifconfig'. The output of ifconfig is the following:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:192

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          LOOPBACK  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

Notice that the Harware MAC address is all '0's, which is clearly wrong.
If you use 'dmesg' you see the following errors:

SABRE0: PCI SERR signal asserted.
SABRE0: PCI bus error, PCI_STATUS[eaa0]
SABRE0: PCI SERR signal asserted.
SABRE0: PCI bus error, PCI_STATUS[caa0]

And this is how the kernel loads them:

Linux Tulip driver version 1.1.13-NAPI (May 11, 2002)
dmfe: Davicom DM9xxx net driver, version 1.36.4 (2002-01-17)
eth0: Davicom DM9102 at pci0000:00:05.0, 00:00:00:00:00:00, irq 7204992.
eth1: Davicom DM9102 at pci0000:00:0c.0, 00:00:00:00:00:00, irq 7204288.

Google searching turns out that this is a known bug of the 'dmfe' driver
which replaces the 'tulip' driver. If you run 'lsmod' in console you
will see that both drivers are loaded:

Module                  Size  Used by
(...)
dmfe                   23900  0
tulip                  54472  0
ohci_hcd               19716  0

This is wrong, and needs to be fixed by hand by removing the drivers
and reinstalling the drivers, like  this:

$ modprobe -r dmfe
$ modprobe -r tulip
$ modprobe tulip
$ dhclient eth1
Note: The 'eth1' interface is the 'A' interface of the Netra, while 'B' is
eth0, which is actually somewhat confusing. In our setup we were using
'A' (eth1) to connect to the network.
(This was reported in #239873 but has not been documented in the SPARC
Installation Guide)

NOTE: This URL
http://040.digital-bless.com/texts/installing_debian_linux_on_sun_netra_x1.html
also mentions issues with the 'dmfe' network driver. I wonder why the
installer tries to install both drivers when the 'dmfe' is not recommended.
The person doing that writeup installed a CD-ROM to the system (the Netra X1,
unlike the T1, does not have one) so the lack of network was not critical for
him, but it would be a show-stopper for any other installing in this system.


SILO issue
----------

When the installer tries to install SILO it fails:

SILO installation failed
Running "/sbin/silo" failed with error code "1".

If SILO is executed in the terminal (within a chroot), it also fails:

/etc/silo.conf appears to be valid
Fatal error: Cannot open /dev/hda3

This is the output of 'fdisk -l /dev/hda'

Disk /dev/hda (Sun disk label): 16 heads, 255 sectors, 19156 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4080 * 512 bytes

    Device Flag    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1         17722     19158   2929440   83  Linux native
/dev/hda2         16765     17722   1952280   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda3             0     19158  39082320    5  Whole disk

However, if you restart the installer (without rebooting the system)
and rerun the system (either from the installer or from a chroot)
it *does* work. ?

RAID issue
----------

Software RAID can not be configured throughout the installation since 
the partitions cannot be configured as a RAID volume.
The option: "Use as: physical volume for RAID" is not available
in the 'partman' module.

Reboot issue
------------

(This only happened in one system, so it might be a hardware problem)

After the installation, the system does not boot and returns the following
error message:

Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x40000000 for kernel
Uncompressing image...
Loaded kernel version 2.6.15
Illegal Instruction

If the system is hard-reset (soft-reset won't do) then it is able to reboot
properly and load the Linux kernel.


Regards

Javier

PS: Full log of the installation and more information available on request

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closing as discover1 and the sarge installer are no longer used.
Feel free to report any issues against current installer.

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