Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: Debian-Installer release candidate 2, source: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/rc2/sarge-i386-netinst.iso uname -a: N/A Date: 2005-01-07 14:25 EST Method: Installation from bootable CD-ROM
Machine: Unbranded whitebox PC Processor: AMD Athlon XP 2500+ on an ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard Memory: 512 MiB Root Device: Western Digital WD800JD on Silicon Image SiI 3112A SATA controller Root Size/partition table: /dev/sda1: 40.00 GiB, NTFS /dev/sda2: 34.03 GiB, ext3 (dir_index,filetype,has_journal,sparse_super) /dev/sda3: 486 MiB, swap Output of lspci and lspci -n: N/A Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it 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: [O] Create file systems: [E] Mount partitions: [E] Install base system: [ ] Install boot loader: [ ] Reboot: [ ] Comments/Problems: Unsuccessful installation. I got two different issues with two installation methods. --- linux --- The operating system locks up while loading the ide-detect module. The message I get when it locks up the system is: Loading module 'ide-detect' for 'Linux IDE detection' I cannot switch to another console nor to the journal console. I have to restart the computer by pressing the Reset button. This behaviour is always reproductible. --- linux26/expert26 --- I cannot mount a pre-formatted ext3 partition. I don't get any helpful message in the journal console but here is the error message shown: The attempt to mount a file system with type ext3 in SCSI1 (0,0,0), partition # () at / failed. Similarily, I cannot format a new ext3 partition from partman. In this case, I do get some helpful output from the journal console: The ext3 file system creation in partition #2 of SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) failed. <ALT-F3> /sbin/tune2fs: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock. mke2fs 1.35 (28-Feb-2004) Could not stat /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 --- No such file or directory The device apparently does not exist; did you specify it correctly? "ls /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0" confirms that the part2 node does not exist. In fact, I can only see two nodes: disc and part1. I have tried to create the nodes manually ("mknod part2 block 8 2" and "mknod part3 block 8 3") but mke2fs still doesn't work. cfdisk can detect the partitions. The IDE controller is known to work fine under Linux. I ran Gentoo Linux on this computer for a while using their kernel sources (2.6.8 and 2.6.9). I would like to wipe out the whole disk but I cannot lose my MS Windows partition. I would like to wipe out MS Windows but I don't want to lose my life by an angry girlfriend... ;) I have the same issue with Ubuntu 4.10 (which is using a previous version of d-i, I believe). Contact me if you need further information. - Patrick Clément-Bonhomme