Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: beta3 netboot uname -a: Linux indigo2 2.4.22-r4k-ip22 #1 Mon Feb 9 21:48:42 CET 2004 mips unknown Date: Mon Mar 15 23:26:48 EST 2004 Method: netboot from Woody i386 box
Machine: SGI Indigo2 Processor: R4400SC V5.0 FPU V0.0 Memory: 96M Root Device: SGI WD93 SCSI and ST15230N disk Root Size/partition table: # fdisk /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc (SGI disk label): 133 heads, 62 sectors, 1017 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8246 * 512 bytes ----- partitions ----- Pt# Device Info Start End Sectors Id System 1: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 0 3 32769 0 SGI volhdr 11: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 0 1017 8386733 6 SGI volume 12: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 5 1000 8213016 3 SGI raw 13: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4 1001 1016 131936 82 Linux swap ----- Bootinfo ----- Bootfile: ----- Directory Entries ----- Command (m for help): Output of lspci: (Not yet available...) Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked: [O] Configure network HW: [O] Config network: [O] Detect CD: [ ] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [O] - maybe - used fdisk to generate SGI format Create file systems: [E] - failure on swap Mount partitions: [ ] Install base system: [ ] Install boot loader: [ ] Reboot: [ ] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: Booted with th following at the firmware prompt: bootp(): append="devfs=mount" Confusion of partition numbering: partconf: Creating swap on /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part13 mkswap: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part13: No such file or directory should be mkswap /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4 Once this failure occurs, the installer looses its mind about which partition to mount as / In running partman to not use the swap partition, I seem to have lost the ext3 option on formating / And it fails to mount /, maybe due to some of the same confusion of partition numbering as made the swap creation fail. | This is an overview of your currently configured partitions and mount | | points. Select a partition or device to modify its settings, or | | select free space to add a new partition. | | | | Partition table overview: | | | | SCSI1 (0,0,0) - 4.2 GB SEAGATE ST15230N | | pri/log 21.1 MB FREE SPACE | | #12 primary 4.2 GB ext2 | | #13 primary 67.5 MB K swap | | | | Finish partitioning and write changes to disk | | Automatically partition a drive | | Undo changes to partitions | | Configure the Logical Volume Manager | | | | <Go Back> <Continue> | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
