Bug#289756: installation-reports
Booted a businesscard iso image with DEBCONF_DEBUG=5. The install hangs at sd_mod but it is possible eventually to switch to console 2. Here is the dmesg output. Attached scsi disk at sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 SCSI device sda: 204121778 512-byte hdwr sectors (122942 MB) Partition check: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0:3ata1: DMA timeout, stat 0x01 ATA: abnormal status 0x58 on port 0xF88A9087 scsi0: ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun 0, CBB: Read (10) 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 080 Current sd08:00: sense key Medium Error Additional sense indicates Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate failed I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Peter Karbaliotis
Bug#289756: installation-reports
Brian Steele wrote: ... Machine: Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe, w/Radeon 9200 AGP video card, USB keyboard and mouse. ... I also see this with the same motherboard (see Bug #280950). What can we do to help diagnose this problem? Peter
Bug#280950: Installation Report
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: 2004/11/10 daily image from http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/i386/2004/sarge-i386-netinst.iso uname -a: The result of running uname -a on a shell prompt Date: 2004/11/10 Method: netinst + network, booted off CD-ROM, debian.yorku.ca not proxied Machine: Asus A7N8X-E motherboard Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+ Memory: 1 GB Root Device: /dev/hda 40GB IDE Root Size/partition table: Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40027029504 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77557 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 48307243464767 HPFS/NTFS (WinXP Pro) Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/hda2 48307 61296 6546487+ 7 HPFS/NTFS (data) Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/hda3 61297 75441 7129080 83 Linux (root) /dev/hda4 75442 77557 1066464 83 Linux (swap) /dev/hde 120GB SATA (unused for now) Output of lspci and lspci -n: :00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (different version?) (rev c1) :00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 1 (rev c1) :00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 4 (rev c1) :00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 3 (rev c1) :00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 2 (rev c1) :00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 5 (rev c1) :00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 ISA Bridge (rev a4) :00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce2 SMBus (MCP) (rev a2) :00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4) :00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4) :00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4) :00:04.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Ethernet Controller (rev a1) :00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce MultiMedia audio [Via VT82C686B] (rev a2) :00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97 AudioControler (MCP) (rev a1) :00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 External PCI Bridge (rev a3) :00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2) :00:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): nVidia Corporation nForce2 FireWire (IEEE 1394) Controller (rev a3) :00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (rev c1) :01:04.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Yukon Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter (rev 13) :01:0b.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. (formerly CMD Technology Inc) SiI 3112 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02) :03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AP [Radeon 9600] :03:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AP [Radeon 9600] (Secondary) :00:00.0 0600: 10de:01e0 (rev c1) :00:00.1 0500: 10de:01eb (rev c1) :00:00.2 0500: 10de:01ee (rev c1) :00:00.3 0500: 10de:01ed (rev c1) :00:00.4 0500: 10de:01ec (rev c1) :00:00.5 0500: 10de:01ef (rev c1) :00:01.0 0601: 10de:0060 (rev a4) :00:01.1 0c05: 10de:0064 (rev a2) :00:02.0 0c03: 10de:0067 (rev a4) :00:02.1 0c03: 10de:0067 (rev a4) :00:02.2 0c03: 10de:0068 (rev a4) :00:04.0 0200: 10de:0066 (rev a1) :00:05.0 0401: 10de:006b (rev a2) :00:06.0 0401: 10de:006a (rev a1) :00:08.0 0604: 10de:006c (rev a3) :00:09.0 0101: 10de:0065 (rev a2) :00:0d.0 0c00: 10de:006e (rev a3) :00:1e.0 0604: 10de:01e8 (rev c1) :01:04.0 0200: 11ab:4320 (rev 13) :01:0b.0 0104: 1095:3112 (rev 02) :03:00.0 0300: 1002:4150 :03:00.1 0380: 1002:4170 Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot worked:[E+O] (see below) 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: [O] Comments/Problems: Booting with the 2.4 kernel failed. The first install attempt was by booting the 2.4 kernel from CD. After selecting Country and Language, the installer hung at Loading module 'sd_mod' for SCSI disk support... (I do have a 120GB SATA disk which I will use for another install later). Booting with linux26 succeeded and correctly gave three ethernet interfaces: eth0: NVidia Corp nForce2 eth1: Galileo Tech Ltd. Yukon Gigabit Ethernet eth2: Firewire ethernet Partition table was manually edited to re-use the partitions from a previous Debian install. Selected Desktop in 2nd stage and got working video (ATI Radeon 9600 Pro) and
Bug#242290: Updated attempt to install on Sun280R
Latest daily businesscard, netinst and mini iso (2004/11/12) http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/sparc/current/sarge-sparc-netinst.iso http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/sparc/current/sarge-sparc-businesscard.iso http://people.debian.org/~joshk/d-i/images/daily/mini.iso Rebooting with command: boot cdrom Boot device: /[EMAIL PROTECTED],70/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0:f File and args: SILO Version 1.4.8 Fast Data Access MMU Miss -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: initrd testing
Sun Ultra 1 (uniprocessor UltraSPARC): Loading initital ramdisk (1477740 bytes at 0x2080 phys 0x40c0 virt) Sun Ultra Enterprise 2 (dual processor UltraSPARC): Loading initital ramdisk (1477740 bytes at 0x6080 phys 0x40c0 virt) Panics with the same message as before: NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0. Freeing initrd memory: 1442 freed cramfs: wrong magic sh-2021: reiserfs_read_super: can not find reiserfs on ramdisk(1,0) Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00 Press L1-A to return to the boot prom -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 780-492-7660 Computing and Network Services University of Alberta -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: initrd testing
Ben Collins wrote: Ultra1: On this one, I got (modulo any typos) Loading initial ramdisk (1477684 bytes at 0x01x phys 022340800 virt) ... [spinning \/] Remapping the kernel ... FP Disabled ok and I was back to the OpenBoot 'ok' prompt. This is strange. Ultra10: On this one, I got much further. The kernel was loading, but failed near the end. The last messages were RAMDISK: couldn't find valid ramdisk image starting at 0. Freeing initrd memory 1443k freed cramfs: wrong magic sh-2021: reiserfs_read_super: can not find reiserfs on ramdisk (1,0) Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00 I hope this means something to somebody. This means something. Atleast we are showing a ramdisk, but the start point is all wrong. Did the old cd images work for you? I also saw this on a Sun Ultra 2. Sun Ultra 2 UPA/Sbus (2 x UltraSPARC 200 MHz) ... loaded kernel version 2.4.26 Loading initial ramdisk ( 1477684 bytes at 0x01x phys, 0x6080 virt) ... RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0 Freeing initrd memory: 1443k freed cramfs: wrong magic sh-2021: reiserfs_read_super: can not find reiserfs on ramdisk (1,0) kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00 Press L1-A to return to the boot prom The 20040511 daily image boots up fine on this system. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 780-492-7660 Computing and Network Services University of Alberta -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: initrd testing
Joshua Kwan wrote: On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 01:56:25PM -0600, Peter Karbaliotis wrote: I also saw this on a Sun Ultra 2. Sun Ultra 2 UPA/Sbus (2 x UltraSPARC 200 MHz) ... loaded kernel version 2.4.26 Loading initial ramdisk ( 1477684 bytes at 0x01x phys, 0x6080 virt) ... RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0 Freeing initrd memory: 1443k freed cramfs: wrong magic sh-2021: reiserfs_read_super: can not find reiserfs on ramdisk (1,0) kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00 Press L1-A to return to the boot prom The 20040511 daily image boots up fine on this system. Erk. That's a _regression_! Not good... Ben, did your patch interfere with anything that would have made this not work? Also, this is CDROM, right? Also, did you use a netinst/businesscard image, the cdrom-mini.iso, or what? I tried a boot floppy on my sparc32 box. It seemed to boot OK, but possibly because SILO is not responible for the initrd for floppy installs. cdrom-mini.iso from your daily build. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 780-492-7660 Computing and Network Services University of Alberta -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#249082: Installation report for Sun Ultra Enterprise 2
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: daily image 20040511 from http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/sparc/current/ uname -a: Linux pill 2.4.24-sparc64 #1 Fri Jan 30 18:32:22 EST 2004 sparc64 unknown Date: 20040514 Method: Network install from daily business card, sunsite.ualberta.ca, not proxied Machine: Sun Ultra Enterprise 2 Processor: UltraSparc I Memory: 1 GB Root Device: SCSI, Seagate ST32550W 2.1GB, /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/disc Root Size/partition table: see below Output of lspci: N/A Base System Installation Checklist: 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: [E] Create file systems:[O] Mount partitions: [O] Install base system:[O] Install boot loader:[O] Reboot: [O] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: Installed via serial console. Using partman I wiped the old partition table and tried going through the guided partitioning. It dies with the following: Failed to partition the selected disk This probably happened because there are too many (primary) partitions in the partition table. Going back, this is what shows up: SCSI1 (0,1,0) - 2.1 GB SEAGATE ST32550W SUNW2.1G #1 785.2 MB B f ext3 / Opening a shell and running parted I get the message Warning: The disk CHS geometry (1009,67,62) does not match the geometry stored on the disk label (1009,19,80). Ignore/Cancel? I then tried to recreate the disk label using 'mklabel sun'. Going back to the menu and trying to partitin disks caused parted to segfault. I started the install from the beginning and this time partitioning worked. I had it use free space, all in one partition and got this result SCSI1 (0,1,0) - 2.1 GB SEAGATE ST32550W SUNW2.1G #1 2.0 GB B f ext3 / #2 127.6 MB f swap swap When the system rebooted I got the following message: zs_close: bad serial port count; tty-count is 1, info-count is 3 In the second stage, the borders in the screens looked something like ZDDD ... DDD? 3 3 3 3 ... 3 @DDD ... DDDY Hitting return caused ^[[?1;2c to appear at the bottom of the screen. The same string appeared when trying to set the root password and the screen acted as if the return key had been entered. Got the serial error message again: zs_close: bad serial port count; tty-count is 1, info-count is 2 Running base-config again resulted in the correct border lines being shown and none of the above problems. - Contents of /proc/cpuinfo during install: cpu : TI UltraSparc I (Spitfire) fpu : UltraSparc I integrated FPU promlib : Version 3 Revision 1 prom : 3.1.5 type : sun4u ncpus probed : 2 ncpus active : 1 Cpu0Bogo : 399.76 Cpu0ClkTck : 0bebc200 MMU Type: Spitfire -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#249092: Installation report for Sun Ultra 1
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: daily image 20040511 from http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/sparc/current/ uname -a: Linux light 2.4.26-sparc64 #1 Sat Apr 24 01:43:10 EDT 2004 sparc64 GNU/Linux Date: 20040514 Method: Network install from daily business card, sunsite.ualberta.ca, not proxied Machine: Sun Ultra 1 Processor: UltraSparc I Memory: 128 MB Root Device: SCSI, Quantum Fireball 1.0 GB, /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/disc Root Size/partition table: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1 1 GB / /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part2 84 MB swap Output of lspci: N/A Base System Installation Checklist: 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: [O] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: Installed via serial console. Same problem with second stage install as in #249082. Exited and ran base-config. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FYI: new package for creating ppc OpenFirmware bootable kernel images
Seen in Debian Weekly News: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/mkvmlinuz This little program takes a PowerPC Linux kernel as an uncompressed ELF image file (usually called vmlinux or somesuch) and adds boot code and possibly a ramdisk to create a compressed kernel image that can be booted directly from Open Firmware, thus eliminating the need for a second-stage bootloader such as yaboot or quik. This is especially useful on PowerPC sub-architectures that do not have a bootloader at all, but may also come handy for install kernels, netboot systems and the like. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 780-492-7660 Computing and Network Services University of Alberta -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#247743: SPARCstation 5 and 20040505 daily businesscard image
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: daily businesscard iso 20040505 from http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/sparc/current/ uname -a: Linux opal 2.4.24-sparc32 #1 Fri Jan 30 16:04:55 EST 2004 sparc unknown Date: 20040506 Method: businesscard, external CD-RW, sunsite.ualberta.ca, not proxied testing Machine: SPARCstation 5 Processor: sparc4m Memory: 64 MB Root Device: SCSI /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target4/lun0/disc 4.1 GB Root Size/partition table: scsi(0,4,0)part1 ext3 4.1GB / scsi(0,4,0)part2 swap 181.3MB swap scsi(0,3,0)part1 reiserfs 1.0GB /home Output of lspci: N/A Base System Installation Checklist: 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:[E] Install boot loader:[ ] Reboot: [ ] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: Install base system failed because the installer chose the wrong kernel: kernel-image-2.4.24-sparc64-smp instead of kernel-image-2.4.24-sparc32. I was not prompted for a kernel to install. Here is the contents of /proc/cpuinfo Description of the install, in prose, and any thoughts, comments and ideas you had during the initial install. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#247743: cpuinfo
Sorry, forgot to include the contents of /proc/cpuinfo: cpu : Fujitsu MB86904 fpu : Lsi Login/Meiko L64804 or compatible promlib : Version 3 Revision 2 prom: 2.15 type: sun4m ncpus probed: 1 ncpus active: 1 BogoMips: 109.36 MMU type: Fujitsu Swift contexts: 256 nocache total : 1048576 nocache active : 84992 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#247743: SPARCstation 5 and 20040505 daily businesscard image
Joey Hess wrote: Peter Karbaliotis wrote: Here is the contents of /proc/cpuinfo Erm, I hope it's not really empty. Can you try agin to include it? I'm confused. It's there in my Sent Mail and I can see it on the web in BTS. Here it is again cpu : Fujitsu MB86904 fpu : Lsi Login/Meiko L64804 or compatible promlib : Version 3 Revision 2 prom : 2.15 type : sun4m ncpus probed : 1 ncpus active : 1 BogoMips : 109.36 MMU type : Fujitsu Swift contexts : 256 nocache total : 1048576 nocache active : 84992 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#247757: SPARCstation 5 and 20040505 daily netinst image
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: daily netinst iso 20040505 from http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/sparc/current/ uname -a: Linux opal 2.4.24-sparc32 #1 Fri Jan 30 16:04:55 EST 2004 sparc unknown Date: 20040506 Method: netinst iso, external CD-RW, sunsite.ualberta.ca, not proxied testing Machine: SPARCstation 5 Processor: sparc4m Memory: 64 MB Root Device: SCSI /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target4/lun0/disc 4.1 GB Root Size/partition table: scsi(0,4,0)part1ext34.1GB / scsi(0,4,0)part2swap181.3MB swap scsi(0,3,0)part1reiserfs 1.0GB /home Output of lspci: N/A Base System Installation Checklist: 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:[E] Reboot: [ ] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: SILO installation failed Running /sbin/silo failed with error code 1. In a shell, did chroot /target and then ran silo again. /etc/silo.conf appears to be valid Fatal error: Your /boot/second.b is located above the magic 1GB boundary from the start of the disk. Please move it down so that SILO first stage loader can find it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#247757: more information
I went back and created a 50 MB /boot partition at the start of the disk and the install completed successfully. I am now in the 2nd stage install which does not seem to be using the framebuffer(?). The screen is now black text on a white background and it is not possible to tell where the cursor/current selection is located. :^( -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Should base-config add added users to useful groups?
Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Andrew Pollock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Bit of a mouthful of a subject. I'm wondering if it would be beneficial to automatically add the non-root user created by base-config to a few groups, e.g. cdrom, floppy, audio, video? s/by base-config/by shadow Let's assume the case of someone using d-i to install Sarge on a machine that will be that person's desktop (hey that's me!). Most likely it will only have the one user. The installation will be more useful out of the box for that non-priviledged user if that user can access the cdrom, and the floppy drive and make noises come out of the speakers. See bug reports for the shadow package.This feature has been asked several times but its implications are non-trivial. Suggestions have been made for adding this in base-config if, for some valid reasons, this is not implemented in shadow. This really seems to belong in adduser and there are outstanding wishlist bugs asking for this (36019 and 147518). See also http://www.hbg-bremen.de/~roland/code/adduser.xhtml -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 780-492-7660 Computing and Network Services University of Alberta -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#243120: installation-reports: boot failure on sparc32 (Ultra1)
Vincent McIntyre wrote: Package: installation-reports Version: 20040410 Severity: normal Debian-installer-version: http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/sparc/current/sarge-sparc-netinst.iso (2004-04-10) ( MD5=21e4902c4ece557fc192fe2e94fa3862 ) uname -a: Date: 2004-04-11 15:00 (GMT+10) Method: cdrom, external SCSI cdrom. Machine: Sun Ultra 1 SBus (UltraSPARC 143MHz) Processor: UltraSPARC 143MHz Memory: 64 Megabytes Root Device: SCSI hard disc Root Size/partition table: pre-existing Sun partition table Output of lspci: n/a Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked:[E] Configure network HW: [ ] Config network: [ ] Detect CD: [ ] Load installer modules: [ ] Detect hard drives: [ ] Partition hard drives: [ ] Create file systems:[ ] Mount partitions: [ ] Install base system:[ ] Install boot loader:[ ] Reboot: [ ] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: This is a sun4u machine, so it should be supported by sarge, no? The system is running OpenBoot3.25. probe-scsi-all detected the cd drive ok. The boot command was ok boot cdrom The corresponding output is Resetting... openboot prom messages Boot device: /sbus/[EMAIL PROTECTED],840/[EMAIL PROTECTED],88/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0:f SILO Version 1.4.4 Fast Data Access MMU miss ok Also tried an earlier version, beta3 netinst of 2004-03-30 (3ed15e150e820b47886d8058d0d99d33). This failed in the same way. Also tested with Woody 3.0 disc 1 - I got further here (ie I got the welcome prompt from the installer) but I chose not to fully boot into the installer kernel. A newer firmware version might get you further (see Bug#242290). Searching on Sun's web site for firmware may not provide useful results - try searching on OBP. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 780-492-7660 Computing and Network Services University of Alberta -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#242779: busybox-cvs-udeb: wget fails with 'SIZE value is garbage' on unauthoritative file length
Package: busybox-cvs-udeb Version: 20040402-1 Severity: normal Tags: sid /tmp/reportbug-busybox-cvs-udeb-5401-bhsxQd -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.24beast2 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#242779: oops. used --body instead of --body-file
Package: busybox-cvs-udeb Version: 20040402-1 Severity: normal Tags: sid In an install from the sparc businesscard iso I get a 'Bad archive mirror' message when trying to get the (testing) Release file. I opened up a shell and tried manually using the command wget ftp://sunsite.ualberta.ca/pub/Linux/debian/debian/dists/sarge/Release and got back Connecting to sunsite.ualberta.ca[129.128.5.190]:21 wget: SIZE value is garbage I then downloaded both the testing and unstable i386 versions to my desktop, extracted the packages and ran them. The testing version runs fine but the unstable version produces the same error message. Thanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] 780-492-7660 Computing and Network Services University of Alberta -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.24beast2 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: who is the maintainer of the sparc netboot.img
Gerald Leier wrote: hi folks, im still want to get my sparcs booted with a sarge netboot.img. does someone know how to look into such a boot.img ? how to lookpback mount, which fs if any. or if kernel+ramdisk.tgz where to find the offset ? has anyone a clou on who did the netboot image for [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? has anyone a hint on how to create such a netbootimage for sparc ? is the a source available for the netboot images for sparc ? thanks gerald What has worked for me is linux root=/dev/rd/0 rw at the SILO prompt. If that fails, try linux devfs=mount root=/dev/rd/0 rw. Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#242290: Sun Fire 280R
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: daily businesscard image from 2004/04/04 uname -a: n/a Date: 2004/04/05 Method: boot from businesscard image Machine: Sun Fire 280R Processor: UltraSparc III+ Memory: 2 GB Root Device: SCSI Root Size/partition table: n/a Output of lspci: n/a Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked:[E] Configure network HW: [ ] Config network: [ ] Detect CD: [ ] Load installer modules: [ ] Detect hard drives: [ ] Partition hard drives: [ ] Create file systems:[ ] Mount partitions: [ ] Install base system:[ ] Install boot loader:[ ] Reboot: [ ] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: Boot from CD-ROM initially failed with the message Fast Data Access MMU Miss. After upgrading the OBP firmware to the latest version I got the following. boot: Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x4000 for kernel Loaded kernel version 2.4.24 Loading initial ramdisk (1128394 bytes at 0x40C0)... Illegal Instruction -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#240372: SPARCstation 5 installation report
Joshua Kwan wrote: On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 17:03:00 -0700, Peter Karbaliotis wrote: WARNING: Your /etc/fstab does not contain the fsck passno field. I will kludge around things for you, but you should fix your /etc/fstab file as soon as you can. And then the boot hangs because the root filesystem is read-only Could you attach the fstab file from the machine if that's possible? Sorry about the delay, but I didn't have a chance to get at the system until today. The fstab contains just the following: # UNCONFIGURED FSTAB FOR BASE SYSTEM -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 780-492-7660 Computing and Network Services University of Alberta -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#240372: SPARCstation 5 installation report
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: 2004/03/26 daily sparc-sarge-businesscard.iso uname -a: Linux opal 2.4.24-sparc32 #1 Fri Jan 30 16:04:55 EST 2004 sparc unknown Date: 2004/03/04 Method: network installation, CD-ROM, mirror: sunsite.ualberta.ca, not proxied Machine: Sun SPARCstation 5 Processor: 25MHz(?) sun4m Memory: 64 MB Root Device: SCSI /dev/hda 1GB Root Size/partition table: scsi(0,3,0)part1ext332MB/boot scsi(0,3,0)part2swap128MB scsi(0,3,0)part4ext3256MB /root scsi(0,3,0)part5ext3256MB /var scsi(0,3,0)part6ext2324MB /tmp scsi(0,4,0)part1ext32GB /usr scsi(0,4,0)part2reiser 2GB /home Output of lspci: N/A Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked:[E] Configure network HW: [O] Config network: [O] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [ ] Create file systems:[O] Mount partitions: [O] Install base system:[O] Install boot loader:[O] Reboot: [E] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: Initial boot still requires explicity setting the root device: linux root=/dev/rd/0 rw. There was a comment, IIRC, yesterday on #debian-boot which suggested that initrd doesn't have the right pivot. Installed testing. Reboot: WARNING: Your /etc/fstab does not contain the fsck passno field. I will kludge around things for you, but you should fix your /etc/fstab file as soon as you can. And then the boot hangs because the root filesystem is read-only Note: today's sarge-sparc-netinst.iso fails to install because of a missing initrd-tools package. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sparc beta 3 CD images have the wrong silo.conf
VFS: Cannot open root device or 00:00 Please append a correct root= boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00 Press L1-A to return to the boot prom Booting with linux root=/dev/rd/0 devfs=mount,dall rw works. The silo.conf on the beta 3 CD images does not have the boot options to turn on devfs and set root to the ramdisk devfs device. Here is the silo.conf from the cdrom-mini.iso - partition=1 timeout=600 read-only message=/boot/debian.txt default=linux initrd=/boot/initrd.gz root=/dev/rd/0 # Standard boot images image[sun4c,sun4d,sun4m]=/boot/vmlinuz-sparc32 append=devfs=mount,dall rw label=linux image[sun4u]=/boot/vmlinuz-sparc64 append=devfs=mount,dall rw label=linux # Expert boots image[sun4c,sun4d,sun4m]=/boot/vmlinuz-sparc32 label=expert append=DEBCONF_PRIORITY=low devfs=mount,dall init=/bin/sh rw image[sun4u]=/boot/vmlinuz-sparc64 label=expert append=DEBCONF_PRIORITY=low devfs=mount,dall init=/bin/sh rw -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#236364: SPARCstation 5 installation report
Thomas Poindessous wrote: On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 03:13:00PM -0700, Peter Karbaliotis wrote: This time it actually got to the point of installing a kernel image. Unfortunately, the installer chose kernel-image-2.4.24-sparc64-smp when it should have chosen kernel-image-2.4.24-sparc32. I think this is fixed in cvs version of base-installer. Default kernel version wasn't the lastest. I won't be able to try this out until it gets to testing (4 more days). Installs from unstable fail because there is no build for the latest version of exim4 (4.30-7). Now that sparc images are autobuilding, I will try as soon as they show up (on gluck, I'm guessing?). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 780-492-7660 Computing and Network Services University of Alberta -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: release status
Joey Hess wrote: Thomas Poindessous wrote: On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 05:34:09PM -0900, Joey Hess wrote: Thomas Poindessous wrote: demo must be disabled in config/sparc.cfg. I took the right to do it in CVS. Hmm, that must make the debian-installer-demo package rather useless. yes, I didn't realize that, sorry :( What's the problem with building the demo? some variables used by pkg-list weren't defined, then no udeb was installed, and later building failed. I corrected that. I redid a test (not in pbuilder) and it does work. Maybe sparc can be added to Architectures line in debian/control ? I'd be glad to, if someone has managed a largely successful install on sparc too. Not sure if that has happened yet. Please see Bug #236364 for my sparc installation report (just made yesterday). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 780-492-7660 Computing and Network Services University of Alberta -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#236364: SPARCstation 5 installation report
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: 2004/03/04 daily image from http://people.debian.org/~jbailey/d-i/sparc/daily/ uname -a: Linux opal 2.4.24-sparc32 #1 Fri Jan 30 16:04:55 EST 2004 sparc unknown Date: 2004/03/04 Method: network installation, CD-ROM, mirror: sunsite.ualberta.ca, not proxied Machine: Sun SPARCstation 5 Processor: 25MHz(?) sun4m Memory: 64 MB Root Device: SCSI /dev/hda 1GB Root Size/partition table: scsi(0,3,0)part1ext332MB/boot scsi(0,3,0)part2swap128MB scsi(0,3,0)part4ext3256MB /root scsi(0,3,0)part5ext3256MB /var scsi(0,3,0)part6ext2324MB /tmp scsi(0,4,0)part1ext32GB /usr scsi(0,4,0)part2reiser 2GB /home Output of lspci: N/A 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] Create file systems:[O] Mount partitions: [O] Install base system:[E] Install boot loader:[ ] Reboot: [ ] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: Installed unstable. With the standard boot I was not given the choice of setting up static addressing so I ended up using 'linux DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium'. Also, I had to specify language en rather that en_US so I could select my country and an appropriate (fast) local mirror (sunsite.ualberta.ca). The base system install failed with the following: - Base system installation error The deboostrap program exited with an error (return value 127). /var/log/messages ended with: Errors were encountered while processing exim4-daemon-light mailx at exim4 exim4-config exim4-base /usr/sbin/deboostrap: 1: sleep: not found umount: /target/proc/bus/usb: No such file or directory - The latest versions of exim4-daemon-light and exim4-base (4.30-7) depend on libgnutls10 but have not shown up in the archives for sparc. The older versions (4.30-5) depend on libgnutls7 which is not installed. The failure to configure exim causes the failures for mailx and at. The version of busybox on the CD does not have sleep (applet not found) and neither does last night's image. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#236364: SPARCstation 5 installation report
I went back and set the install to use testing, copied /target/bin/sleep and /target/lib/librt.so.1 to /bin and /lib, respectively and wiped the prevous installation. This time it actually got to the point of installing a kernel image. Unfortunately, the installer chose kernel-image-2.4.24-sparc64-smp when it should have chosen kernel-image-2.4.24-sparc32. Getting closer... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
