Toshiba Tecra 8000 Installation report
Gory details below, when the system had Stretch on it.
Installed via debian-bullseye-DI-alpha3-i386-netinst.iso. Expert
install via text using a RW-CD. Language and keyboard are US English.
Did not preseed d-i.
The d-i kernel gets hung up for a while on "probing EDD". I haven't
tried adding "edd=off" to the command line yet.
For obvious reasons, d-i used low memory mode. Also, the installer is
*slow*. If you must install on this machine, have patience.
d-i does not detect the Ethernet card. This machine has a Netgear FA411
Ethernet card in a PCMCIA; it seems to like the axnet_cs driver. Even
after I selected it in the menu, d-i didn't use it. It worked in
Stretch. Once the installation was complete, all I had to do was add it
to /etc/network/interfaces, and run "ifup eth0". However, it does not
continue to work, so it may be a a hardware issue.
Incidentally, I got the same bogus EFI message I mentioned in a prior
installation report. No way!
According to d-i, the BIOS has corrupted hw-PMU resources (MSR-186 is
40002e). Whatever that means.
root@teckla:~# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 7.6 GiB, 8195604480 bytes, 16007040 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x000ce2ac
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 * 63 208844 208782 102M b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda2 208845 417689 208845 102M 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 417751 16000739 15582989 7.4G 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 417753 1461914 1044162 509.9M 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 1461978 16000739 14538762 7G 83 Linux
root@teckla:~# mount | grep sda
/dev/sda6 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered)
/dev/sda2 on /boot type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
root@teckla:~# dmidecode | less -X
# dmidecode 3.0
Scanning /dev/mem for entry point.
# No SMBIOS nor DMI entry point found, sorry.
root@teckla:~# free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 244M 42M 40M 2.1M 161M 190M
Swap: 509M 0B 509M
Total: 753M 42M 549M
root@teckla:~# uname -a
Linux teckla 4.9.0-9-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.9.168-1 (2019-04-12) i686 GNU/Linux
root@teckla:~# cat /etc/debian_version ; lsb_release -a
9.9
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 9.9 (stretch)
Release: 9.9
Codename: stretch
root@teckla:~# dmesg | grep axnet
[ 35.465875] axnet_cs 1.0 eth0: Asix AX88790: io 0x300, irq 4, hw_addr 00:09:5b:08:18:83
[ 43.937179] axnet_cs 1.0 eth0: found link beat
[ 43.937329] axnet_cs 1.0 eth0: autonegotiation complete: 100baseT-FD selected
root@teckla:~# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (AGP disabled) (rev 02)
00:04.0 VGA compatible controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2200 [MagicGraph 256AV] (rev 20)
00:05.0 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:05.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:05.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:05.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
00:09.0 Communication controller: Toshiba America Info Systems FIR Port Type-O (rev 23)
00:0b.0 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC97 (rev 05)
00:0b.1 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC97 (rev 05)
root@teckla:~# locate axnet
/lib/modules/4.9.0-14-686-pae/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/axnet_cs.ko
/lib/modules/4.9.0-9-686-pae/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/axnet_cs.ko
root@teckla:~#
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