Bug#1054459: debian-installer: Debian 12.2 amd64 netinst failes to find a kernel image for a Dell 7812
cc:d...@caltech.edu, st...@einval.com Hi Steve, The Supermicro system that created the netinst flash drive image is a xeon with ecc; its root filesystem system is a btrfs raid1 mirror pair. I did not verify the checksum of the netinst image after copying to flash. My bad because recreating the image on the Supermicro resulted in the install now running to completion on the Dell 7812. I created about 4 installs to different partition sets to try and reproduce the bug to generate a log file with the failure. None of them failed. this bugreport should be closed as 'unable to reproduce' I regret the erroneous bugreport and will use the experience to check more carefully in the future. David On 10/24/23 05:46, Steve McIntyre wrote: Hi David, On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 10:02:44PM -0700, David George Henderson III wrote: Package: debian-installer Version: debian installer found on amd64 12.2 netinst.iso Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I have several systems and have experienced this difficulty only with the Dell 7812 with an Xeon E5 CPU. The debian 12.2.0 amd64 netinst.iso boots normally and seems to start normally. When it gets to finding a kernel to install, it complains that it cannot find a suitable kernel. I had the same results with debian 12.2 adm64 dvd-1.iso and dlbd-1.iso That's very odd. I can't reproduce this here in simple testing in a VM, and there shouldn't be anything system-specific here. Could you please test again and grab the installer syslog for us? That'll help us to see what's going wrong here. When I booted the debian 12.2 amd64 live.iso system, its installer ran OK. I am running on the system installed from the live installer right now. This is what made the lspci. I also successfully managed to perform a dist-upgrade from an install of debian 11.6.
Bug#783325: jessie rc3 requires nomodeset in grub.cfg to boot an i386 iMac with a radeon vga.
Package: firmware-linux-nonfree Bug: jessie rc3 requires nomodeset in grub.cfg to boot an i386 iMac with a radeon vga. The system is a Core Duo (i386) iMac model 4,1. 2GB ram, 250GB hard drive. Pertinent information from the install is appended: lspci, parted, fstab. rEFInd 0.8.7 was used to boot the Jessie rc3 i386 dvd1. rEFInd is installed on /dev/sda5. The system installed normally. I did not have a working wifi connection or hardwired ethernet. I've never gotten a flash drive set up and working with the Broadcom b43 driver to load. After installation rEFInd shows two Debian swirls for two efi bootloaders. On the initial boot using the grubia32.efi icon, the system appeared to halt after doing the fsck. I went into rescue mode, modified /etc/default/grub to remove quiet as an option. Then rebuilt the /boot/grub/grub.cfg file by using grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg This time, the verbose display shows the system halted right after a switch to the radeon framebuffer. I then changed the linux line in /boot/grub/grub.cfg to end in ro nomodeset to not switch to the radeon framebuffer. (I know I need to change file /etc/grub.d/10_linux to make this change permanent.) The iMac now completes the Jessie rc3 boot. I didn't have to do this for wheezy... as I recall, the radeon firmware load failed and wheezy continued booting without acceleration. Congrats to everyone that contributed to making EFI work on this buggy EFI hardware. The package used for this report is firmware-linux-nonfree because I couldnt think of anything closer. This package does not have a driver for this model radeon vga. wifi works after manually setting up the /lib/firmware/b43 directory from a tarball made under wheezy. lspci output: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03) 00:07.0 Performance counters: Intel Corporation Device 27a3 (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02) 00:1d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7-M Family) SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 02) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV530/M56-P [Mobility Radeon X1600] 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 22) 03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11a/b/g (rev 01) 04:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): LSI Corporation FW322/323 [TrueFire] 1394a Controller (rev 61) partition listing from parted: (parted) print Model: ATA WDC WD2500JS-40N (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 250GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Disk Flags: Number Start End SizeFile system Name Flags 1 20.5kB 210MB 210MB fat32 EFI System Partition boot, esp 2 210MB 50.2GB 50.0GB hfs+iMacGLW 3 50.4GB 140GB 90.0GB hfs+devel 4 140GB 150GB 9866MB hfs+comhfs 5 150GB 151GB 999MB hfs+rEFInd 6 151GB 152GB 99.6MB aBios 7 152GB 152GB 99.6MB bBios msftdata 8 152GB 154GB 2000MB ext2aBoot msftdata 9 154GB 156GB 2000MB ext2bBoot msftdata 10 156GB 196GB 40.0GB ext4aRoot msftdata 11 196GB 236GB 40.0GB ext4bRoot msftdata 12 236GB 239GB 3000MB linux-swap(v1) aSwap 13 239GB 242GB 3000MB linux-swap(v1) bSwap msftdata 14 242GB 250GB 8371MB linux-swap(v1) ctest msftdata # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a # device; this may be used with UUID= as a
Bug#776519: No change in symptoms when Debian i386 rc1 installed over system C.
I installed Debian jessie i386 rc1 on top of system c, replacing jessie i386 DI-2 i386 system. After doing a option-poweron on the iMac, it still boots Debian wheezy system b. David P.S. - I did this hardwired, because I'm not able to load the Broadcom b43 wifi firmware off a flash drive. Before the DI-2 system was overwritten, I made a tar ball of /lib/firmware/b43 and untarr'd it in various directories on the flash drive. Preparation under Debian i386 DI-2 system: cd /lib/firmware tar -cvf ~/b43.tar b43 cd /flashdrive mkdir b43 tar -xvf ~/b43.tar mv b43 b43-open tar -xvf ~/b43.tar When I booted the rc1 net install, it prompted for the firmware about 5 times. That is the same firmware files 5 times in a row. I told it to load the firmware off the flash drive, and it didn't find it. Either the bug still exists or I have some kind of preparation error. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#776519: Debian jessie install on a Apple mactel i386 boots debian wheezy system in adjacent partition
Package: Debian Installer (most likely) Version: debian-jessie-DI-b2-i386-netinst.iso Date installed: circa 1/26/2015 The system runs OSX 10.6.8 and identifies itself as: Computer- Apple iMac model iMac4,1 Core Duo, 2GB ram, 250GB hard drive Partition display: GNU Parted 2.3 Using /dev/sda Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) print Model: ATA WDC WD2500JS-40N (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 250GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Number Start End SizeFile system Name Flags 1 20.5kB 210MB 210MB fat32 EFI System Partition boot 2 210MB 50.2GB 50.0GB hfs+i386OSX 3 50.3GB 71.7GB 21.3GB hfs+comhfs 4 71.8GB 74.0GB 2147MB ext2aBoot 5 74.0GB 76.1GB 2147MB ext2bBoot 6 76.1GB 78.3GB 2147MB ext2cBoot 7 78.3GB 78.4GB 157MB hfs+Apple_HFS_Untitled_2 8 78.4GB 78.6GB 157MB aBios 9 78.6GB 78.7GB 157MB bBios 10 78.7GB 78.9GB 157MB cBios 11 78.9GB 84.9GB 5999MB linux-swap(v1) 12 84.9GB 140GB 55.0GB ext4aRoot 13 140GB 195GB 55.0GB ext4bRoot 14 195GB 250GB 55.0GB ext4cRoot lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03) 00:07.0 Performance counters: Intel Corporation Device 27a3 (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02) 00:1d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7-M Family) SATA Controller [IDE mode] (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 02) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI M56P [Radeon Mobility X1600] 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 22) 03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11a/b/g (rev 01) 04:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): LSI Corporation FW322/323 [TrueFire] 1394a Controller (rev 61) Summary: Installed 3 systems on this machine to experiment and track down this jessie boot bug, as well as to get a version of wireless firmware not dependent on internet. The last install, Jessie i386, booted a Wheezy i386 system. Context: this iMac is not normally near a hardwired connection. I can lug the machine next to the wireless router for a hardwired internet, but its not a very convenient location for me. I want to install Debian 7.8.0 off dvd's with nonfree firmware and load wireless interface loaded off flash drive. Have experimented with rEFInd and have not achieved booting success. Want to avoid being dependent on rEFInd and grub-efi-ia32. Problem 1(what is being reported): Debian Jessie installs but does not always leave the system in a fully bootable state. Option poweron indicates a boot icon that does not always boot. Problem 2(another problem related to wireless b43 firmware): Debian wheezy does not install a functioning Broadcom driver from a hardwired connection. It seeks a driver from a URL that does not exist. Debian jessie will install a functioning driver. I desire firmware that I can put on a flash drive and install with Debian wheezy. Preparation for debugging both problems led me to install 3 systems in the following order: system A: on partitions labeled, aBios, aBoot, aRoot, swap Holds Debian 7.7.0 i386 dvd1 install with Debian internet mirror grub installed to /dev/sda system B: on partitions labeled, bBios, bBoot, bRoot, swap Holds Debian 7.8.0 i386 dvd1 install with no internet mirror grub installed to /dev/sda system C: on partitions labeled cBios, cBoot, cRoot, swap Holds Debian jessie netinstall, i386 architecture. grub
Bug#773732: Success installing and booting Debian jessie on a Mac Pro - i386 and kfreebsd-amd64 architectures
Package: installation-reports Boot method: install from net using i386 and kfreebsd-amd64 netinst.iso; debian-jessie-DI-b2-kfreebsd-amd64-netinst.iso Image version: i386: vmlinuz-3.16-2-686-pae, kfreebsd-amd64: kfreebsd-10.0-1-amd64.gz Date: circa December 15, 2014 Machine: Mac Pro model 1,1, Apple EFI firmware, only one drive bay populated Processor: Xeon amd64 Memory: 12 GB Partitions: df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred GNU Parted 3.2 Using /dev/ada0 Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) print Model: ST3500418ASQ (scsi) Disk /dev/ada0: 500GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Disk Flags: Number Start End SizeFile system Name Flags 1 20.5kB 210MB 210MB fat32 EFI System Partition boot, esp 2 211MB 50.2GB 50.0GB ext2commonext2 msftdata 3 50.2GB 100GB 50.0GB ext4i386deb8xroot msftdata 4 100GB 110GB 10.0GB ext2i386deb8xboot msftdata 5 110GB 116GB 6000MB linux-swap(v1) i386deb8xswap 6 116GB 116GB 99.6MB i386deb8xbios 7 116GB 166GB 50.0GB dkfrdeb8xroot 8 166GB 176GB 10.0GB ext2dkfrdeb8xboot 9 176GB 182GB 6000MB ext2dkfrdebswap 10 182GB 182GB 99.6MB dkfrdebbiosbios_grub 11 182GB 236GB 53.6GB hfs+darwin1 12 236GB 290GB 53.7GB hfs+Apple_HFS_Untitled_3 13 290GB 343GB 53.7GB freebsd-ufs fbsd101root 14 343GB 350GB 6442MB fbsd101swap 15 350GB 354GB 4295MB fat32 DOS_FAT_32_Untitled_2 msftdata Notes: Partition 1 created by MacOS Disk Utility during initial format Partition 2-6 created during Debian i386 install Partition 7-10 created during Debian kfreebsd-amd64 install Partition 11-12 created by MacOS to check Debian i386 mount of hfs+ (nonjournaled) Partition 13-14 created by FreeBSD 10.1 install Partition 15created by MacOS to check Debian kfreebsd-amd64 mount of fat32 Further note: Linux parted could have created the EFI partition. MacOS was easier. Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn): 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000X Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 30) 00:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express x8 Port 2-3 (rev 30) 00:03.0 Non-VGA unclassified device: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express x4 Port 3 (rev 30) 00:04.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5000X Chipset PCI Express x16 Port 4-7 (rev 30) 00:05.0 Non-VGA unclassified device: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express x4 Port 5 (rev 30) 00:06.0 Non-VGA unclassified device: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express x4 Port 6 (rev 30) 00:07.0 Non-VGA unclassified device: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express x4 Port 7 (rev 30) 00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset DMA Engine (rev 30) 00:10.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset FSB Registers (rev 30) 00:10.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset FSB Registers (rev 30) 00:10.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset FSB Registers (rev 30) 00:11.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset Reserved Registers (rev 30) 00:13.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset Reserved Registers (rev 30) 00:15.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset FBD Registers (rev 30) 00:16.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset FBD Registers (rev 30) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB High Definition Audio Controller (rev 09) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 09) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev 09) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev 09) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev 09) 00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset UHCI USB Controller #1 (rev 09) 00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset UHCI USB Controller #2 (rev 09) 00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset UHCI USB Controller #3 (rev 09) 00:1d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset UHCI USB Controller #4 (rev 09) 00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset EHCI USB2 Controller (rev 09) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d9) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 09) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB IDE
Bug#766250: eject: [kfreebsd] fails to open cdrom tray
Hi Steve, As the submitter of this bug, I'd like to correct some info; I installed 7.6.0 Wheezy kfreebsd-i386 selecting the 9.0-2-686 kernel. Just to make sure I didn't have a cockpit error, I verified it with: root@hpdkfre:/boot/grub# ls /boot config-9.0-2-686 grub kfreebsd-9.0-2-686.gz I was using whatever version of eject executable that got installed with the system. It was never updated with aptitude. On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org wrote: Package: eject Version: 2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-13 Severity: grave User: debian-...@lists.debian.org Usertags: kfreebsd User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: gift X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-...@lists.debian.org, dghkd...@gmail.com Hi, I'm creating an actual bug ticket for this issue, reported at: https://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2014/10/msg00278.html and further discussed here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2014/10/msg00287.html I'm leaving this tagged 'gift', as a nice easy bug that a relative beginner to kfreebsd can try to take a look at: On 20/10/14 20:54, DAVID Henderson wrote: Ejecting /media/cdrom from the Debian kfreebsd-i386 command line results in an io error. The media in the cdrom tray is Wheezy 7.0.0 kfreebsd-i386 DVD 1. root@hpdkfre:~# eject /media/cdrom eject: unable to eject, last error: Input/output error It would be helpful to know ASAP what version of the kfreebsd kernel and eject utility are affected. The reporter only mentioned wheezy; there were 8.3 and 9.0 kernels in wheezy and I'm not sure which was used. And is sid/jessie affected? eject should be a very simple C program. Actually ejecting a CD-ROM drive probably involves only a single ioctl. I suggest to try `camcontrol eject cd0` (from freebsd-utils) to see if that works right. Perhaps use the ktrace and kdump tools to see the ioctl being used by eject or by camcontrol, and compare. Or use gdb if you're familiar. See here how ioctl calls are encoded: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ioctlapropos=0sektion=2manpath=FreeBSD+10.0-RELEASEarch=i386format=html http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/sys/ioccom.h?v=FREEBSD10#L36 And some other useful services are: http://codesearch.debian.net/ http://sources.debian.net/ Thanks, have fun! Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org
