Re: U5 - Sarge with d-i rc2 netinstall failure

[Jurij Smakov <jurij@wooyd.org>]

Hello,

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Nicolas Will wrote:

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> ide0 at 0x1fe02c00000-0x1fe02c00007,0x1fe02c0000a on irq 4,7e0
> ide1 at 0x1fe02c00010-0x1fe02c00017,0x1fe02c0001a on irq 4,7e0
> (shared with ide0
> >
> Partition check:
> hda:end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 0
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 2
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 4
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 6
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 8
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 10
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 12
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 14
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 0
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 2
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 4
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 6
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 8
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 10
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 12
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 14
> unable to read partition table
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> RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0.
> Freeing initrd memory: 2828k freed
> cramfs: wrong magic
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00
> Press L1-A to return to the boot prom

Now, there are clearly two distinct problems here. One is the hard drive 
problem, another one is the failure to load initrd into ramdisk. The 
latter one is (IMO) more serious, since the initrd image is clearly loaded
into memory by silo, but later kernel fails to find it. I don't remember 
having seen that kind of failure before.

Best regards,

Jurij Smakov                                        jurij@wooyd.org
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