Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Compiled by Drew Stephens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Debian-installer-version: Sarge RC3 installer; obtained 3rd week of March uname -a: Linux gibson 2.4.29 #14 SMP Fri Mar 25 20:40:22 EST 2005 alpha GNU/Linux Date: 3rd week of March Method: Installed using a Sarge RC3 netboot image, booted off the CD disk whichwent just fine. The installer went fine as well, aside from being *painfully* slow to show a new menu (ie, you hit enter to go to the next screen, said screen won't show up for 5-15 seconds). The install went fine, all the way up to booting the newly installed kernel. It seems that the init ramdisk wasn't created properly and didn't have the driver for the SCSI card (SYM53C8XX chipset). I tried numerous things, from using the initrd off the installer with and without the installer's kernelto no avail. I don't know much about init ramdisks, so that might have been hopeless from the start. I grabbed a Gentoo livecd and used it to boot and chroot into my Debian install. I built a kernel, installed it and everything has worked just fine since.
Machine: DEC Alphaserver 2100 Processor: 4x200 Memory: 512MB Root Device: SCSI, attached to SYM53C8xx card. /dev/sda3 is the root partition; it's a 2GB disk.
Root Size/partition table: gibson:/usr/src/linux# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 2104 MB, 2104565760 bytes 65 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1019 cylinders Units = cylinders of 4030 * 512 = 2063360 bytes
5 partitions: # start end size fstype [fsize bsize cpg] a: 1* 1* 0* ext2 b: 1* 40* 38* ext2 c: 40* 958* 918* ext2 d: 958* 1020* 62* swap
Output of lspci and lspci -n: gibson:/usr/src/linux# lspci 0000:00:00.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21040 [Tulip] (rev 22) 0000:00:01.0 Non-VGA unclassified device: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c810 (rev 01) 0000:00:02.0 Non-VGA unclassified device: Intel Corp. 82375EB/SB PCI to EISA Bridge (rev 03) 0000:00:07.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 30) gibson:/usr/src/linux# lspci -n 0000:00:00.0 0200: 1011:0002 (rev 22) 0000:00:01.0 0000: 1000:0001 (rev 01) 0000:00:02.0 0000: 8086:0482 (rev 03) 0000:00:07.0 0200: 1011:0019 (rev 30)
Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked: [O] Configure network HW: [O] Config network: [O] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [O] Create file systems: [O] Mount partitions: [O] Install base system: [O] Install boot loader: [O] Reboot: [E]
Comments/Problems: As I said in the install description, the reboot didn't go so well. The initrdseemingly didn't have the driver for the SYM53C8xx (Adaptec?) card in the system. I'm happy to provide any more information as needed.
-- Drew Stephens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (202) 390-8165
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