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Bug#304248: marked as done (install report - alpha 500au - first soft-reboot fails)

Your message dated Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:23:31 +0200
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Package: installation-reports

INSTALL REPORT

Debian-installer-version: 
  * sarge netinstall iso, downloaded on 25 March 2005 from 
  * http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/alpha/rc3/sarge-alpha-netinst.iso
  * file size/name: 159467520 Mar 25 19:32 sarge-alpha-netinst.iso

uname -a: 
  * Linux muro 2.4.27-2-generic #1 Tue Feb 15 01:56:26 UTC 2005 alpha GNU/Linux

Date: Mon 11 April 2005, 20:00 CET

Method: 
  * How did you install?  From netinst CD 
  * What did you boot off? From netinst CD with aboot >>> boot dka0
  * If network install, from where?  ftp.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be
  * Proxied? no

Machine: "Digital Personal workstation 500au"
Processor: alpha
Memory: 256 MByte
Root Device: SCSI
Root Size/partition table: ? (2 disks of 4.3 GByte)

Output of lspci and lspci -n:

[lspci -v : I give this detail since PCI seems to cause reboot failure later] 

0000:00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 30)
0000:00:04.0 IDE interface: Silicon Image, Inc. (formerly CMD Technology Inc) PCI0646 (rev 01)
0000:00:07.0 Non-VGA unclassified device: Intel Corp. 82378ZB/IB, 82379AB (SIO, SIO.A) PCI to ISA Bridge (rev 43)
0000:00:14.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21052 (rev 02)
0000:01:08.0 SCSI storage controller: QLogic Corp. ISP1020 Fast-wide SCSI (rev 05)
0000:01:0a.0 VGA compatible controller: Texas Instruments TVP4020 [Permedia 2] (rev 01)
0000:00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 30)
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 24
	I/O ports at 9000 [size=128]
	Memory at 000000000a540000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128]
	Expansion ROM at 000000000a500000 [disabled] [size=256K]

0000:00:04.0 IDE interface: Silicon Image, Inc. (formerly CMD Technology Inc) PCI0646 (rev 01) (prog-if 80 [Master])
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
	I/O ports at 9080 [size=16]

0000:00:07.0 Non-VGA unclassified device: Intel Corp. 82378ZB/IB, 82379AB (SIO, SIO.A) PCI to ISA Bridge (rev 43)
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

0000:00:14.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21052 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=248
	I/O behind bridge: 00008000-00008fff
	Memory behind bridge: 09000000-0a3fffff
	Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 0a400000-0a4fffff

0000:01:08.0 SCSI storage controller: QLogic Corp. ISP1020 Fast-wide SCSI (rev 05)
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 36
	I/O ports at 8000 [size=256]
	Memory at 000000000a020000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Expansion ROM at 000000000a400000 [disabled] [size=64K]

0000:01:0a.0 VGA compatible controller: Texas Instruments TVP4020 [Permedia 2] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
	Subsystem: Elsa AG GLoria Synergy
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 44
	Memory at 000000000a000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
	Memory at 0000000009000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M]
	Memory at 0000000009800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M]
	Expansion ROM at 000000000a410000 [disabled] [size=64K]

[lspci -n]
0000:00:03.0 0200: 1011:0019 (rev 30)
0000:00:04.0 0101: 1095:0646 (rev 01)
0000:00:07.0 0000: 8086:0484 (rev 43)
0000:00:14.0 0604: 1011:0021 (rev 02)
0000:01:08.0 0100: 1077:1020 (rev 05)
0000:01:0a.0 0300: 104c:3d07 (rev 01)


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:         [O]
Detect CD:              [O]
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:    [O]
Reboot:                 [E]  ("soft reboot" fails, power cycle succeeds)

Comments/Problems:

* soft reboot fails. A consecutive power cycle worked fine.
  (see below for more details). 

* this installation causes a different ordering of files in 
  ls -al than what I am used to. I can set this to what I am used 
  to with 
    export LC_ALL="C" 
  Has this changed compared to woody install ? After the sarge
  install, the status is
    LANG=en_US
    LANGUAGE=en_US:en_GB:en

* my /etc/apt/sources.list points standardly to "testing".
  What will happen when sarge becomes "stable" ? Would it not 
  be better to use "sarge" in /etc/apt/sources already now ?


<Description of the install, in prose, and any thoughts, comments
      and ideas you had during the initial install.>

Installing debian sarge on alpha with Debian-installer rc3
==========================================================

0. Materials:
-------------

* Debian-installer sarge netinstall iso, downloaded on
  25 March 2005 from 
  
  http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/alpha/rc3/sarge-alpha-netinst.iso

  159467520 Mar 25 19:32 sarge-alpha-netinst.iso

* my machine is a "Digital Personal workstation au500"
  
1. How to stop the automatic boot
---------------------------------

My machine was initially configured to autoboot into linux on the first 
SCSI driver (dkc0). My machine is using SRM and aboot.

Based on the SRM-HOWTO on

  http://www.alphalinux.org/faq/SRM-HOWTO/srm-about.html

I figured out that CTRL-p is used to stop a command in SRM and revert
to aboot.

2. launching debian-installer in aboot
--------------------------------------

Once inside the aboot prompt, it is straightforward with

>>> show dev

Shows all devices. In my case, the IDE CDROM was on dka0, so I
needed to enter

>>> boot dka0 

[this CDROM _is_ an IDE CDROM but still 'show dev' does show
 it as a device on dka0 ... even if the HOWTO mentions DQ as the 
 standard device for (E)IDE disks]

And there goes debian-installer :-)

For some reason, I did not see the initial screen that asks for 
expert mode or different kernels and gives help (as I am used 
to seeing on x86 installs). Did I overlook it or was it not there ?

3. inside debian-installer
--------------------------

* all works great 
  (I selected all defaults, US English, standard QWERTY, 
   system detected Ethernet correctly and got through DHCP, ...)
* configuring disk partitioning with parted (mainly by hand,
  works fine, now that I start to understand it)
* finalised base install without any problem
* disk is ejected and I removed disk

4. reboot
---------

* this is a "soft" reboot (I did not power cycle, just took
  out the CD-ROM and then pressed <enter> as told by the installer).

* reboots (aboot, loading initrd, ...)

* after a short time, the screen stops and I see 
  [copied by hand, not entirely exact from the screen]

freeing pages 749:32767
reserving pages 749:750
Initial ramdisk at:0xff...
pci: cia revision 1 (pyxis)
On node 0 totalpages: 32767
zone(0): 32767 pages
zone(1): 0 pages
zone(2): 0 pages
Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/sda3
HWRPB cycle freq bogus. Estimated 499771572 Hz
Usinfg epoch = 2000
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 988 BogoMIPS
Memory: 250 M/262 M available (1.5 M kernel, 11.3 M reserved, 598k data, 168k init)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 524288 bytes)
Inode ... 16384 (order: 5 ...)
Mount ... 412 (order: 0 ...)
Buffer ... 8192 (order: 3 ...)
Page-cache 32768 (order: 5 ...)
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
pci: passed tb register update test
pci: passed sg loopback i/o read test
pic: passed pte write cache snoop test

[HANGS FOREVER , waited 15 minutes]
 * keyboard does not respond (Numlock, Caps lock no reaction)
 * SysReq does not repsond
 * screen is still visible in VGA mode
 * nothing else to see ...
 
5. reboot again (power cycle)
-----------------------------

* Ctrl-Alt-Del does not respond
* Power cycle the machine
* there is no CDROM in the machine
* coming up again, a few lines that fly by ...

  ELSA Gloria Synergy ...Ver. 7.03.04

  ea.e9.e8 ...

  CPU0 booting

  aboot: load initrd ...

  Ext3 mounted ...

* all seems to work now :-)

6. configuring the base system
------------------------------

"Welcome ..." :-)

* GMT : yes
* Brussels
* add user
* apt-source --> kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be mirror

7. tasksel
----------

* selecting
  * web server
  * mail server
  * database server
  * DNS server

* downloading packages
* installing packages
* finished "Welcome ..."

8. Reboot again
---------------

* log in as root [OK]
  # reboot
* works :-) 

Thanks for this excellent experience. I never thought that 
reinstalling my alpha would be that simple :-) (it was installed
with sid and I don't know of an efficient way to downgrade)

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Package: linux2-6
Version: 2.6.0

Hi!

This bugreport contains a report of problems with the 2.4 kernel. This version 
will not be shipped with etch, therefor I close this report retrospectively 
for version 2.6.0.


Please be free to reopen this report and/or modify the accompanied version 
information by using the "reopen", "found" and "notfound" commands as 
detailed on http://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control


Regards, David
-- 
- hallo... wie gehts heute?
- *hust* gut *rotz* *keuch*
- gott sei dank kommunizieren wir über ein septisches medium ;)
 -- Matthias Leeb, Uni f. angewandte Kunst, 2005-02-15

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