Problems with installation using 2.4.18-bf2.4 in testing.
To debian-testing,
Date of install 4th May 2002.
Problems installing on PIII 800mhz 512 meg ram, 815E intel IDE chipset
and Promise Ultra100 TX2 with latest bios.
Preface.... I need to use the 2.4.18-bf2.4 boot image because both of my
hard drives are hooked up to the Promise IDE Controller.
My computer configuration is as follows.
hda CDROM
hdc CDR
hde HARD DISK 1
hdg HARD DISK 2
Partition configuration.
hdg1 /
hdg3 swap (I know this doesn't seem right, but it is. I needed to
preserve the /home and /mnt/storage partitions below from a
previous partition setup.)
hdg5 /var
hdg6 /usr
hdg7 /home
hdg8 /mnt/storage
The boot disks work fine, and I am able to partition the hard drives.
When it comes to mounting the partitions I get, unable to mount target.
So in order for me to do the install, I have to physically mount the
partitions myself (which works) and I continue on.
Note. This happend on the previous install where I had started with
two clean hard drives.
Everything works fine until I reboot.
When I reboot, a screen load of 01's (literally) spray out on the
screen, and I'm forced to reboot.
After creating a grub boot disk, I boot my debian installation and find
that my lilo.conf contains
disk=/dev/hde
bios=0x80
disk=/dev/hdg
bios=0x82
After doing a bit of diagnostics with grub commands I found out that hdg
should be 0x81 not 0x82 as shown above.
Upon rebooting after the boot disk install, the config program keeps on
looping over the same questions. From memory I think its md5 passwords,
shadow passwords, then locale, then repeat back to the beginning.
By the way,
I think you people are doing a great job, and I am more than happy to
help to the best of my ability.
Any ideas ??
Mark Cox
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