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Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: Sarge weekly cd from:
http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/cd-images/debian-weekly/torrents/i386/sarge-i386-1.iso.torrent
on 29 January 2005
NOTE: THIS IS NOT THE DEBIAN-INSTALLER CD, it's the Official SARGE CD.
The real live Sarge CD linked from the Debian home page. The one
we're trying to make solid enough to cut a real release of.
uname -a: System doesn't boot.
Date: 29 Jan 2005, 3:30AM Pacific time
Method: Burned a Sarge install CD 1 and booted from it.
Machine: Dual Athlon 1800+ PC. Two extra PCI Promise Ultra133-TX2 IDE
controllers.
No hard drives are on the motherboard IDE controller (only the cheap
generic DVDROM, on hda).
(This ASUS motherboard has a bug in the IDE controller that gives it
higher bus priority than the PCI bus, and in some applications we drive
the PCI bus at >40 Mbytes/sec. So all disks are on PCI slots.)
Drives on hde, hdf, hdg. Root on hde3. (hde1&2 are a Knoppix install
that I didn't clobber.)
This system has run Mandrake for several years, ran KNOPPIX for a year,
ran KNOPPIX 3.7 this week.
Processor: Dual AthlonMP 1800+.
Memory: 512MB
Root Device: IDE, Western Digital 200GB drive.
Root Size/partition table: hde1 1GB Knoppix /boot
hde2 100GB Knoppix root
hde3 90GB Sarge root (installed by d-i)
hde5 small Sarge swap (installed by d-i)
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
(don't have system running -- do you need it?)
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: [???] it didn't mount any of my other partitions.
(That's a good thing.) Mounted its own hde3
without any trouble.
Install base system: [O]
Install boot loader: [O]
Reboot: [E]
Comments/Problems:
It all appeared fine until the reboot. On reboot, it doesn't seem to
load the ide-detect module, so it doesn't detect ide2 at all.
But that's where the root partition is, so it fails in pivot_root.
(That's my guess at what's going wrong.)
Last console messages are:
ide: Asuming 33 MHz ...
ide: late registration of driver
hda: LITE-ON COMBO ... CD/DVD...
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7, ...
Journaled Block Device driver loaded
pivot_root: No such file or directory
/sbin/init: 431: cannot open dev/console: No such file
kernel panic: Attempted to kill init
I tried a variety of kernel boot parameters to see if I could
get it to recognize ide2 and hde. "ide-detect" did nothing.
"ide2=0xb400" did see the card and the drives, but got lots of
errors due to (I guess) the control port being wrong.
"ide2=0xb400,0xb002" doesn't even see the drive. This, however,
is what the kernel PRINTS for this card when booting from the CDROM
and doing hardware detection. "ide2=0xb400,0xb002,16" also doesn't
see the drive or change the erroneous output above. (The CDROM
prints that the IRQ is 16.)
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Version: 0.1.84.2+rm
The initrd-tools package has been removed from Debian testing, unstable and
experimental, so I am now closing the bugs that were still opened
against it.
For more information about this package's removal, read
http://bugs.debian.org/393092 . That bug might give the reasons why
this package was removed, and suggestions of possible replacements.
Don't hesitate to reply to this mail if you have any question.
Thank you for your contribution to Debian.
--
Lucas
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