Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT
Install report - Installer/install problems net/disk versions 2.4/2.6 Sarge on ASUSmb-Nvidia-SATA Gentle people, My problems with this install are over as I now have a working machine. Pasted in below is the information that you requested My apologies if you are using sed/awk variants to search for material between < > Some got removed and I realized after the fact that may be the case and I am not sure where to place them now. Regards Wayne Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: This covers almost a month of attempts - Official site net-install/business card installer/nightly versions and a final successful install with a full disk bit torrent download in early May. original "testing" images were dated within a few days of April 27/2005 and and included the standard business card and nightly versions. uname -a: <The result of running uname -a on a shell prompt> Linux debian 2.6.8-200505121 #1 Sat May 21 11:27:12 EDT 2005 i686 GNU/Linux (I kept the version down in the kernel due to some difficulties seen on the web in the more recent kernels.) Date: The last week of April and first three weeks of May were needed for this install due to difficulties and only being able to work on it a couple of hours a day, longer on weekends ;-) Method: Network install - failed as described below Succeeded, finally, with full disk set (downloaded with bit torrent in early May) Machine: <Asus K8N UAYZ > Processor: Athelon64 3000+ Memory: 1G Root Device: SATA Seagate 200Gb 7200rpm/8Mb/ S/N 91134184 hde Root Size/partition table: I used the defaults in installer. First time - multi user machine (4-5? partitions) but "/" was apparently too small (250Mb) to recompile kernels/install needed modules/new kernels Second time desktop machine (3 partitions) Output of lspci and lspci -n: 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00e1 (rev a1) 0000:00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00e0 (rev a2) 0000:00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00e4 (rev a1) 0000:00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00e7 (rev a1) 0000:00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00e7 (rev a1) 0000:00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00e8 (rev a2) 0000:00:05.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00df (rev a2) 0000:00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00ea (rev a1) 0000:00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00e5 (rev a2) 0000:00:0a.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00e3 (rev a2) 0000:00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00e2 (rev a2) 0000:00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00ed (rev a2) 0000:00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge 0000:00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge 0000:00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge 0000:00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1) 0000:00:00.0 0600: 10de:00e1 (rev a1) 0000:00:01.0 0601: 10de:00e0 (rev a2) 0000:00:01.1 0c05: 10de:00e4 (rev a1) 0000:00:02.0 0c03: 10de:00e7 (rev a1) 0000:00:02.1 0c03: 10de:00e7 (rev a1) 0000:00:02.2 0c03: 10de:00e8 (rev a2) 0000:00:05.0 0680: 10de:00df (rev a2) 0000:00:06.0 0401: 10de:00ea (rev a1) 0000:00:08.0 0101: 10de:00e5 (rev a2) 0000:00:0a.0 0101: 10de:00e3 (rev a2) 0000:00:0b.0 0604: 10de:00e2 (rev a2) 0000:00:0e.0 0604: 10de:00ed (rev a2) 0000:00:18.0 0600: 1022:1100 0000:00:18.1 0600: 1022:1101 0000:00:18.2 0600: 1022:1102 0000:00:18.3 0600: 1022:1103 0000:01:00.0 0300: 10de:0322 (rev a1) Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it 2.4 2.6 Initial boot worked: [O] 0 Configure network HW: [E] Y Config network: [E] Y Detect CD: [O] Y Load installer modules: [O] Y Detect hard drives: [O] N Partition hard drives: [O] N Create file systems: [O] - Mount partitions: [O] - Install base system: [O] - Install boot loader: [O] - Reboot: [O] - Comments/Problems: <Description of the install, in prose, and any thoughts, comments and ideas you had during the initial install.> NET INSTALLER - It didn't work. Could not get both the hard drive recognized and the network interface recognized at the same time. Tried various options/searches on the internet /talking with people that knew more than me, etc. As an aside, the net installer was slick and very impressive when I used on an old machine. However, using it on this machine gave me a number of problems, generally related to the on board network interface and SATA / Nvidia drivers. All install options tried with the different kernels 2.4/2.6 and expert / standard did not work. In general: 2.4 kernels saw the hard drive, but didn't see the network card (connected to a router); 2.6 kernel options did not see the hard drive but did not see the network. I could not find any specific references to my problems on the web but did find many apparently related problems with SATA and tried a number of work arounds with no success. DISK INSTALL Same problems as above. Solution: Installed 2.4 kernel, and used that to compile a custom 2.6 kernel to deal with above SATA eth0 problems. (Installing the most recent kernel downloaded with another machine did not work) It would appear that the 2.6 installer may not have a kernel with compiled drivers needed for the hard drive, while the 2.4 installer does? (Somewhere one of my readings said these had to be compiled rather than included in modules. That worked for me.) I also had trouble with the forcedeth driver in the 2.6 kernel and in the end used the NVidia drivers in a tainted kernel. Install logs and other status info is available in /var/log/debian-installer/. My problems are solved but if there is a specific piece of information that would assist you in sorting this problem out in a general sense for others, I will provide it. Overall this Debian software has greatly advanced over the past few years and I appreciate all the good work people are putting into this effort. Cheers Wayne dmesg output is below Linux version 2.6.8-200505121 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-8)) #1 Sat May 21 11:27:12 EDT 2005 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000e4000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003ffc0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000003ffc0000 - 000000003ffd0000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 000000003ffd0000 - 0000000040000000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000ff7c0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) 127MB HIGHMEM available. 896MB LOWMEM available. found SMP MP-table at 000ff780 On node 0 totalpages: 262080 DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1 Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:16 HighMem zone: 32704 pages, LIFO batch:7 DMI 2.3 present. ACPI: RSDP (v000 ACPIAM ) @ 0x000fa010 ACPI: RSDT (v001 A M I OEMRSDT 0x11000426 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x3ffc0000 ACPI: FADT (v002 A M I OEMFACP 0x11000426 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x3ffc0200 ACPI: MADT (v001 A M I OEMAPIC 0x11000426 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x3ffc0390 ACPI: OEMB (v001 A M I OEMBIOS 0x11000426 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x3ffd0040 ACPI: DSDT (v001 A0128 A0128003 0x00000003 INTL 0x02002026) @ 0x00000000 ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled) Processor #0 15:12 APIC version 16 Using ACPI for processor (LAPIC) configuration information Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.1 Virtual Wire compatibility mode. OEM ID: TEMPLATE Product ID: APIC at: 0xFEE00000 I/O APIC #1 Version 17 at 0xFEC00000. Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs Processors: 1 Built 1 zonelists Kernel command line: root=/dev/hde1 ro Initializing CPU#0 PID hash table entries: 4096 (order 12: 32768 bytes) Detected 2009.583 MHz processor. Using tsc for high-res timesource Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Memory: 1034172k/1048320k available (2489k kernel code, 13236k reserved, 1151k data, 172k init, 130816k highmem) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Calibrating delay loop... 3981.31 BogoMIPS Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) CPU: After generic identify, caps: 078bfbff e1d3fbff 00000000 00000000 CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 078bfbff e1d3fbff 00000000 00000000 CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line) CPU: After all inits, caps: 078bfbff e1d3fbff 00000000 00000010 Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ stepping 00 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. enabled ExtINT on CPU#0 ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000 ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000 ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs Setting 1 in the phys_id_present_map ...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 1 ... ok. init IO_APIC IRQs IO-APIC (apicid-pin) 1-0, 1-16, 1-17, 1-18, 1-19, 1-20, 1-21, 1-22, 1-23 not connected. ..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=0 ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC ...trying to set up timer (IRQ0) through the 8259A ... ..... (found pin 0) ...works. number of MP IRQ sources: 16. number of IO-APIC #1 registers: 24. testing the IO APIC....................... IO APIC #1...... .... register #00: 01000000 ....... : physical APIC id: 01 ....... : Delivery Type: 0 ....... : LTS : 0 .... register #01: 00170011 ....... : max redirection entries: 0017 ....... : PRQ implemented: 0 ....... : IO APIC version: 0011 .... register #02: 01000000 ....... : arbitration: 01 .... IRQ redirection table: NR Log Phy Mask Trig IRR Pol Stat Dest Deli Vect: 00 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 31 01 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 39 02 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 03 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 41 04 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 49 05 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 51 06 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 59 07 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 61 08 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 69 09 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 71 0a 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 79 0b 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 81 0c 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 89 0d 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 91 0e 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 99 0f 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 A1 10 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 11 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 12 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 13 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 14 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 15 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 16 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 17 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 IRQ to pin mappings: IRQ0 -> 0:0 IRQ1 -> 0:1 IRQ3 -> 0:3 IRQ4 -> 0:4 IRQ5 -> 0:5 IRQ6 -> 0:6 IRQ7 -> 0:7 IRQ8 -> 0:8 IRQ9 -> 0:9 IRQ10 -> 0:10 IRQ11 -> 0:11 IRQ12 -> 0:12 IRQ13 -> 0:13 IRQ14 -> 0:14 IRQ15 -> 0:15 .................................... done. Using local APIC timer interrupts. calibrating APIC timer ... ..... CPU clock speed is 2009.0473 MHz. ..... host bus clock speed is 200.0947 MHz. NET: Registered protocol family 16 PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0031, last bus=2 PCI: Using configuration type 1 mtrr: v2.0 (20020519) PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) PCI: Using IRQ router default [10de/00e0] at 0000:00:01.0 vesafb: probe of vesafb0 failed with error -6 highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) devfs: boot_options: 0x0 NTFS driver 2.1.15 [Flags: R/O]. udf: registering filesystem Initializing Cryptographic API lp: driver loaded but no devices found Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones agpgart: Detected AGP bridge 0 agpgart: Setting up Nforce3 AGP. agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 941M agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xf0000000 Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing disabled ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A parport0: PC-style at 0x278 (0x678) [PCSPP,TRISTATE] parport0: irq 7 detected lp0: using parport0 (polling). Using anticipatory io scheduler Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize Linux video capture interface: v1.00 Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx NFORCE3-250: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:08.0 NFORCE3-250: chipset revision 162 NFORCE3-250: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later NFORCE3-250: 0000:00:08.0 (rev a2) UDMA133 controller ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio hda: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4081B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 NFORCE3-250-SATA: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:0a.0 NFORCE3-250-SATA: chipset revision 162 NFORCE3-250-SATA: BIOS didn't set cable bits correctly. Enabling workaround. NFORCE3-250-SATA: 0000:00:0a.0 (rev a2) UDMA133 controller NFORCE3-250-SATA: 100% native mode on irq 10 ide2: BM-DMA at 0xc800-0xc807, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio ide3: BM-DMA at 0xc808-0xc80f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio hde: ST3200822AS, ATA DISK drive ide2 at 0x9f0-0x9f7,0xbf2 on irq 10 hde: max request size: 1024KiB hde: 390721968 sectors (200049 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=24321/255/63 /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 p6 > hda: ATAPI 32X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394' ieee1394: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized paride: epat registered as protocol 0 pd: pd version 1.05, major 45, cluster 64, nice 0 pda: Autoprobe failed pd: no valid drive found pcd: pcd version 1.07, major 46, nice 0 pcd0: Autoprobe failed pcd: No CD-ROM drive found pf: pf version 1.04, major 47, cluster 64, nice 0 pf: No ATAPI disk detected pg: pg version 1.02, major 97 pga: Autoprobe failed pg: No ATAPI device detected mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice input: PC Speaker serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse on isa0060/serio1 serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0 Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.4 (Mon May 17 14:31:44 2004 UTC). no UART detected at 0x1 specify port ALSA device list: #0: Virtual MIDI Card 1 NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536) Initializing IPsec netlink socket NET: Registered protocol family 1 NET: Registered protocol family 10 IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver NET: Registered protocol family 17 NET: Registered protocol family 15 BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 1 devices found kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 172k freed Adding 2714944k swap on /dev/hde5. Priority:-1 extents:1 EXT3 FS on hde1, internal journal kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on hde6, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. usbcore: registered new driver usbfs usbcore: registered new driver hub ehci_hcd 0000:00:02.2: PCI device 10de:00e8 (nVidia Corporation) PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:02.2 to 64 ehci_hcd 0000:00:02.2: irq 10, pci mem f8998c00 ehci_hcd 0000:00:02.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 PCI: cache line size of 64 is not supported by device 0000:00:02.2 ehci_hcd 0000:00:02.2: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2004-May-10 hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 1-0:1.0: 8 ports detected nvnet: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:05.0 to 64 Nvsound: Nvidia Audio Init Module, 12:07:37 May 21 2005 version 1.0-2 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:06.0 to 64 Nvsound: NVIDIA CK8S Audio aci 0xe400 and ac97 0xe800, IRQ b Nvsound: DEV MIXER 0 DEV AUDIO 3 Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c0437fa0(lo) eth0: no IPv6 routers present ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3 ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3 ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3 ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A cdrom: open failed. cdrom: open failed. 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