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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: installation-report: kfreebsd on BigV.io public cloud, GRUB issue
- From: Steven Chamberlain <steven@pyro.eu.org>
- Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 20:58:55 +0100
- Message-id: <20140914195855.41086.1996.reportbug@kfreebsd.debian.ok24.uk0.bigv.io>
Package: installation-reports
User: debian-bsd@lists.debian.org
Usertags: kfreebsd
-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: CD
Image version: http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/kfreebsd-amd64/20140913-00:37/netboot-10/mini.iso
Date: 2014-09-13
Machine: BigV.io KVM-based VM with virtio
Partitions: GPT disklabel:
- 1 MiB embedding area for GRUB
- 511 MiB
- ~15 GiB physical device for ZFS, root filesystem on a ZVOL
- 8 GiB swap
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]
Clock/timezone setup: [O]
User/password setup: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Install tasks: [O]
Install boot loader: [E]
Overall install: [O]
Comments/Problems:
Installing kfreebsd-amd64 on BigV.io (Bytemark's public cloud) was
mostly okay, except:
0. booting from virtual CD-ROM took a few attempts; BigV's fault,
not the install media's.
1. grub-mkdevicemap (in /target chroot) did not detect any (virtio)
hard disks. I had to "Enter device manually" in the dialog and
specify /dev/vtbd0, which worked. (n.b. Xen virtio disks will be
called /dev/xbd0)
2. network autoconfiguration got stuck; after running DHCPv6 it
froze with blank blue screen; Ctrl-C allowed me to try again
with manual configuration instead; unfortunately I had no way
in the BigV VNC client to Alt-F2 or Alt-F4 to see what exactly
was going on.
3. partman is the slowest install step, causes lots of device attach/
detach events which devd logs to the installer syslog:
Sep 13 23:38:08 devd: Processing event '!system=DEVFS subsystem=CDEV type=CREATE cdev=diskid/DISK-vda'
Sep 13 23:38:08 devd: Pushing table
Sep 13 23:38:08 devd: Processing notify event
Sep 13 23:38:08 devd: Popping table
Sep 13 23:38:08 devd: Processing event '!system=DEVFS subsystem=CDEV type=DESTROY cdev=diskid/DISK-vda'
Sep 13 23:38:08 devd: Pushing table
Sep 13 23:38:08 devd: Processing notify event
Sep 13 23:38:08 devd: Popping table
Sep 13 23:38:08 devd: Processing event '!system=DEVFS subsystem=CDEV type=MEDIACHANGE cdev=vtbd0'
Sep 13 23:38:08 devd: Pushing table
Sep 13 23:38:08 devd: Processing notify event
Sep 13 23:38:08 devd: Popping table
4. On first boot, /boot is not mounted; seems due to "rw" option
missing from /etc/fstab entry
Installing the base system seemed extremely fast - I'd set sync=disabled
on the ZFS pool - about 90 seconds. Similar period of time to install
the SSH and Standard tasks.
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Installer lsb-release:
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DISTRIB_ID=Debian
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Debian GNU/kFreeBSD installer"
DISTRIB_RELEASE="8 (jessie) - installer build 20140913-00:31"
X_INSTALLATION_MEDIUM=netboot-10
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Installer hardware-summary:
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uname -a: GNU/kFreeBSD kfreebsd 10.0-1-amd64 #0 Tue, 20 May 2014 12:47:21 +0100 x86_64 GNU/Linux
lspci -nn: 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 440FX - 82441FX PMC [Natoma] [8086:1237] (rev 02)
lspci -nn: 00:01.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 ISA [Natoma/Triton II] [8086:7000]
lspci -nn: 00:01.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 IDE [Natoma/Triton II] [8086:7010]
lspci -nn: 00:01.2 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 USB [Natoma/Triton II] [8086:7020] (rev 01)
lspci -nn: 00:01.3 Bridge [0680]: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI [8086:7113] (rev 03)
lspci -nn: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Cirrus Logic GD 5446 [1013:00b8]
lspci -nn: 00:03.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Red Hat, Inc Virtio network device [1af4:1000]
lspci -nn: 00:04.0 Unclassified device [00ff]: Red Hat, Inc Virtio memory balloon [1af4:1002]
lspci -nn: 00:05.0 SCSI storage controller [0100]: Red Hat, Inc Virtio block device [1af4:1001]
lspci -nn: 00:06.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation 6300ESB Watchdog Timer [8086:25ab]
lspci -nn: 00:07.0 SCSI storage controller [0100]: Red Hat, Inc Virtio block device [1af4:1001]
usb-list: Error: directory /sys/bus does not exist; is sysfs mounted?
kldstat: Id Refs Address Size Name
kldstat: 1 14 0xffffffff80200000 1142000 kfreebsd-10.gz
kldstat: 2 1 0xffffffff86012000 dc18 ext2fs.ko
kldstat: 3 1 0xffffffff86020000 140df9 zfs.ko
kldstat: 4 1 0xffffffff86161000 2d61 opensolaris.ko
kldstat: 5 1 0xffffffff86164000 88e3 fuse.ko
df: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
df: df: /proc/mounts: No such file or directory
free: /usr/bin/report-hw: line 63: free: not found
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: kfreebsd-amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: kFreeBSD 10.0-1-amd64
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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