Re: [Server-devel] mkusbinstall fails -SUCCESS
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 8:40 PM, David Leeming wrote: > OK it worked thanks to all of you. You were all right. A combination of > weird small errors with hardware and sum packages that weren't installed on > Ubuntu... Good to hear you found the way to get it started... > HOWEVER - the installation fails right at the end when performing > post-installation config - installing bootloader: > > An unhandled exception occurred. This is most likely a bug. Please save a Yes, I've seen this on various hardware. It's not really a hw bug, it's just some odd incompatibility with the installer sw (anaconda). Can you get your hands on a USB-CDROM? If not, the next step to study is starting up the install from that USB stick, and then telling it it's an NFS-based installation, and pointing it to an NFS server... ... it's a hard road if you don't have a CDROM... :-/ cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] mkusbinstall fails -SUCCESS
OK it worked thanks to all of you. You were all right. A combination of weird small errors with hardware and sum packages that weren't installed on Ubuntu... Firstly I installed isomd5sum. It now checks the USB... Despite my earlier attempts, and the fact that the stick was working when I first tried (with 0.5.0), and that it appeared fine in partition editor, files visible etc, there WAS a USB hardware problem - a bad fragment that persisted. I tried with another USB stick, simply formatted FAT using a Windows machine which left it already bootable, and YES it all works. No errors with mkusbinstall and booting up nicely into anaconda etc. HOWEVER - the installation fails right at the end when performing post-installation config - installing bootloader: An unhandled exception occurred. This is most likely a bug. Please save a copy of the detailed exception and the bug report against anaconda at your distribution provided bug reporting tool I think this IS a hardware problem, it is reproducible. Any ideas? David Leeming Technical Advisor, People First Network, Honiara, Solomon Islands Alternative email address: leemingda...@yahoo.com.au -Original Message- From: qu...@us.netrek.org [mailto:qu...@us.netrek.org] On Behalf Of qu...@laptop.org Sent: Monday, 16 February 2009 3:35 p.m. To: David Leeming Cc: 'Martin Langhoff'; server-devel@lists.laptop.org Subject: Re: [Server-devel] mkusbinstall fails You got Input/Output error during cp read of /media/cdtmp.Rf6276, which I guess is the loopback mounted ISO 9660 file system image. The most common cause of this is truncation of the image, especially if the files on which it occurs are near the end of the image. checkisomd5 is missing. Install it from package isomd5sum on Ubuntu. There may be other tools missing. Use script command to capture all the output as text, so we can have another look. -- James Cameronmailto:qu...@us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/ ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] mkusbinstall fails
On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 15:04 +1300, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 2:42 PM, David Leeming > wrote: > > Tried with another USB stick - exactly the same result. > > Thanks for writing up carefully the steps you followed... I think I > spotted the problem... > > > SET UP BOOTABLE USB STICK > > > > - insert 2GB USB drive previously formatted with Windows (FAT) > > - start Partition editor, delete the existing partition > > Here is where the problem starts... the USB stick is perfectly good > with a FAT partition. Repartitioning and formatting it in ext2 is > likely to be the source of the problem. > > Anyone else reading this: do not repartition the USB stick :-) > > David: you need to re-partition the usb stick in a funny format. > > - use fdisk to delete the partition, create a new partition of type > "e" (WIN95 16bit LBA), make the partition bootable > > - use mkfs.vfat with the -F 16 option > I'm using fat32 with no issues here on a 2gb flash drive... sudo /lib/udev/vol_id /dev/sdc1 ID_FS_USAGE=filesystem ID_FS_TYPE=vfat ID_FS_VERSION=FAT32 ID_FS_UUID=48B9-6D23 ID_FS_UUID_ENC=48B9-6D23 ID_FS_LABEL=XSRepo ID_FS_LABEL_ENC=XSRepo ID_FS_LABEL_SAFE=XSRepo sudo fdisk /dev/sdc Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sdc: 2021 MB, 2021654528 bytes 63 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1010 cylinders Units = cylinders of 3906 * 512 = 1999872 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0007ec58 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 * 11010 1972499b W95 FAT32 Jerry ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] mkusbinstall fails
You got Input/Output error during cp read of /media/cdtmp.Rf6276, which I guess is the loopback mounted ISO 9660 file system image. The most common cause of this is truncation of the image, especially if the files on which it occurs are near the end of the image. checkisomd5 is missing. Install it from package isomd5sum on Ubuntu. There may be other tools missing. Use script command to capture all the output as text, so we can have another look. -- James Cameronmailto:qu...@us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/ ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] mkusbinstall fails
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 5:22 PM, David Leeming wrote: > Pia (very kindly) sent me the hardware with the very same USB stick > pre-configured with 0.5.0. It booted and started the installation fine, but > failed right at the end with an exception error that we decided was due to > hardware. If you've seen that error, it's a good hint that the HW won't like being installed from USB (at least with the 0.5.x images). I've seen it on various machines. Burning CDROMs is the answer :-/ > What about the mkusbinstall errors as in the * attached jpeg **? Those errors are coming from a plain old "copy file X to the usb disk" -- the kernel it's telling that writing to that disk failed. The copies are done using the cp command, as vanilla as it gets. So probably something wrong in the fdisk partitioning and filesystem setup for the usb stick _or_ the usb stick being flakey (but you've said it's not). [ It's unfortunate that USB installs are hit-and-miss with F-9 stuff... ] m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] mkusbinstall fails
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 3:53 PM, David Leeming wrote: > - insert in XS machine and boot > - get same error as before ugh. There is something going on there... but I am no longer sure if it is a problem in the procedure you are following or just a hardware incompatibility. Overall, USB-based installs are a bit flakey in terms of hardware compat. Some BIOSes don't always work, and I have seen some machines where it starts and does not complete. (This is getting much better in Fedora-10 and 11...) That's why the wikipage says... in case of trouble, fall back on CD-ROM installs. Can you try that? > BTW, where did you see instructions to replace the USB disk partition > format? I want to make sure we don't have misleading wiki pages... David - should we be fixing wiki pages anywhere? m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] mkusbinstall fails
OK I followed your advice. As follows: - used Windows to format (FAT 16) - transfer to Ubuntu - check in Partition editor: shows as a good 1.86GB partition, fat16, Flags=boot - run mkusbinstall - says "Copying live image to USB stick" - same i/o errors appear as in the jpeg I attached previous email, ending with "USB stick set up as install image" - insert in XS machine and boot - get same error as before EXTLINUX 3.36 Debian-2007-08-30 EBIOS Copyright (C) 1994-2007 H. Peter Anvin Could not find kernel image: linux boot: If it means anything, the XS machine has a failed installation on it already, and if there is no bootable USB stick available it starts up in Grub. David Leeming Technical Advisor, People First Network, Honiara, Solomon Islands Alternative email address: leemingda...@yahoo.com.au -Original Message- From: Martin Langhoff [mailto:martin.langh...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, 16 February 2009 1:05 p.m. To: David Leeming Cc: server-devel@lists.laptop.org Subject: Re: mkusbinstall fails On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 2:42 PM, David Leeming wrote: > Tried with another USB stick - exactly the same result. Thanks for writing up carefully the steps you followed... I think I spotted the problem... > SET UP BOOTABLE USB STICK > > - insert 2GB USB drive previously formatted with Windows (FAT) > - start Partition editor, delete the existing partition Here is where the problem starts... the USB stick is perfectly good with a FAT partition. Repartitioning and formatting it in ext2 is likely to be the source of the problem. Anyone else reading this: do not repartition the USB stick :-) David: you need to re-partition the usb stick in a funny format. - use fdisk to delete the partition, create a new partition of type "e" (WIN95 16bit LBA), make the partition bootable - use mkfs.vfat with the -F 16 option Once you have done that, you can check that the disk is in good shape and usable trying it on a Windows machine for example. Hope that helps! BTW, where did you see instructions to replace the USB disk partition format? I want to make sure we don't have misleading wiki pages... cheers, , -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] mkusbinstall fails
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 2:42 PM, David Leeming wrote: > Tried with another USB stick - exactly the same result. Thanks for writing up carefully the steps you followed... I think I spotted the problem... > SET UP BOOTABLE USB STICK > > - insert 2GB USB drive previously formatted with Windows (FAT) > - start Partition editor, delete the existing partition Here is where the problem starts... the USB stick is perfectly good with a FAT partition. Repartitioning and formatting it in ext2 is likely to be the source of the problem. Anyone else reading this: do not repartition the USB stick :-) David: you need to re-partition the usb stick in a funny format. - use fdisk to delete the partition, create a new partition of type "e" (WIN95 16bit LBA), make the partition bootable - use mkfs.vfat with the -F 16 option Once you have done that, you can check that the disk is in good shape and usable trying it on a Windows machine for example. Hope that helps! BTW, where did you see instructions to replace the USB disk partition format? I want to make sure we don't have misleading wiki pages... cheers, , -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
