Bug#629615: Freeze at PCMCIA Detection
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: USB Stick
Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.1a/amd64/iso-cd/debian-6.0.1a-amd64-CD-1.iso
Date: Wed Jun 8 13:55:53 CST 2011
Machine: H3C Neocean IX-1540 Storage Server
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6400 @ 2.13GHz
Memory: 4GiB DDR2
Partitions: Not partitioned yet
Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn):
0000:00:00.0 Class 0600: 8086:2778 (rev c0)
0000:00:01.0 Class 0604: 8086:2779 (rev c0)
0000:00:03.0 Class 0604: 8086:277a (rev c0)
0000:00:1d.0 Class 0c03: 8086:27c8 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.1 Class 0c03: 8086:27c9 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.2 Class 0c03: 8086:27ca (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.3 Class 0c03: 8086:27cb (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.7 Class 0c03: 8086:27cc (rev 01)
0000:00:1e.0 Class 0604: 8086:244e (rev e1)
0000:00:1f.0 Class 0601: 8086:27b8 (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.1 Class 0101: 8086:27df (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.2 Class 0101: 8086:27c0 (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.3 Class 0c05: 8086:27da (rev 01)
0000:01:00.0 Class 0200: 8086:1209 (rev 10)
0000:02:00.0 Class 0604: 10b5:8508 (rev ac)
0000:03:01.0 Class 0604: 10b5:8508 (rev ac)
0000:03:02.0 Class 0604: 10b5:8508 (rev ac)
0000:03:03.0 Class 0604: 10b5:8508 (rev ac)
0000:03:04.0 Class 0604: 10b5:8508 (rev ac)
0000:04:00.0 Class 0604: 1166:0103 (rev c3)
0000:05:00.0 Class 0200: 14e4:164c (rev 12)
0000:06:00.0 Class 0604: 1166:0103 (rev c3)
0000:07:00.0 Class 0200: 14e4:164c (rev 12)
0000:08:00.0 Class 0604: 1166:0103 (rev c3)
0000:09:00.0 Class 0200: 14e4:164c (rev 12)
0000:0a:00.0 Class 0604: 1166:0103 (rev c3)
0000:0b:00.0 Class 0200: 14e4:164c (rev 12)
0000:0c:00.0 Class 0104: 193d:1500 (rev 09)
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [O]
Detect network card: [E]
Configure network: [ ]
Detect CD: [ ]
Load installer modules: [ ]
Detect hard drives: [ ]
Partition hard drives: [ ]
Install base system: [ ]
Clock/timezone setup: [ ]
User/password setup: [ ]
Install tasks: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Overall install: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
The system was a H3C Neocean IX-1540 Storage Server, a 4U appliance. It was shipped with SuSE Linux, however is a old kernel. By the way, it is a headless server, even without slot to insert video adapter. I used a USB stick to boot the computer, with output to serial console, and I used another computer to connect to the console port. It freezes at this point:
This installation step depends on one or more other steps that have not yet
been performed.
Choose an installation step:
1. Detect network hardware [*]
Prompt: '?' for help, default=1>
Detecting network hardware ..95%
Detect network hardware
-----------------------
Some PCMCIA hardware needs special resource configuration options in order to
work, and can cause the computer to freeze otherwise. For example, some Dell
laptops need "exclude port 0x800-0x8ff" to be specified here. These options
will be added to /etc/pcmcia/config.opts. See the installation manual or the
PCMCIA HOWTO for more information.
For most hardware, you do not need to specify anything here.
PCMCIA resource range options:
Prompt: '?' for help>
..100%
I added hw-detect/start_pcmcia=false to the boot args, however it is of no use -- the system insists to detect PCMCIA device, which do not present in the server.
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