hello all!
recently i've submitted an installation-report associated to a failed
etch installation (CD netinst method) on an AlphaStation 500/266. this
post is mainly because i suspect that it might be an alpha related bug
and because it was my first time reporting such problem. now, has
anyone in the alpha port community recently tried to install etch?
perhaps with a similar system as mine? i've no idea why this happened
and i'd like to be able to install etch in its final version. i'm
afraid that this bug report passes unnoticed, should i report it
otherwise? here is a link of the archived report:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=410596
shouldn't it be better classified?
thanks!
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Package: installation-reports
Boot method: CD (netinst)
Image version:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/alpha/iso-cd/debian-testing-alpha-netinst.iso
Date: 11th February 2007
Machine: AlphaStation 500/266
Processor: DECchip 21164 processor running at 266 MHz
Memory: 64MB
Partitions: No chance.
Output of lspci -nn and lspci -vnn:
From Digital Unix-Shell (SRM):
dka0.0.0.9.0 DKA0 RZ28D 0008
dka100.1.0.9.0 DKA100 IBM DNES-309170W SA30
dka200.2.0.9.0 DKA200 RRD45 1645
dva 0.0.0.0.1 DVA0
ewa0.0.0.6.0 EWA0 00-00-F8-21-A4-43
pka0.7.0.9.0 PKA0 SCSI BUS ID 7 5.57
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [O]
Detect network card: [E]
Configure network: [ ]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [ ]
Partition hard drives: [ ]
Install base system: [ ]
Clock/timezone setup: [ ]
User/password setup: [ ]
Install tasks: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Overall install: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
the installation is started with the following SRM command:
boot dka200 -flags 0
the d-i enters into "low memory mode".
when it reaches the "detecting network hardware" point, it enters into
an endless loop of killed processes showing the following error flag:
(process:number) INFO: kbd-mode: setting console mode to Unicode (UTF-8)
when i boot the netinst CD using the priority=low flag, the d-i accomplishes
successfully the following tasks:
"Choose language"
"Select a keyboard layout"
"Detect and mount CD-ROM" ("Detecting hardware to find CD-ROMS", "Scanning
CD-ROM")
"Load installer components from CD" ("Loading additional components")
no big problem so far, however when i push it through "Detect network hardware",
the logging console (Alt-F4) shows the kernel killing several processes
associated
with the message "Out of Memory" and the installing console (Alt-F1) prints out
the
message:
(process:number) INFO: kbd-mode: setting console mode to Unicode (UTF-8)
Thanks for all!
Pablo
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