Hi Alex, Thanks for your report, comments below.. On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:30:26PM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote: > Package: installation-reports > Version: 20040108-ia64 > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable > > Debian-installer-version: > http://people.debian.org/~manty/testing/netinst/ia64/20040108/sarge-ia64-netinst.iso > uname -a: 2.4.20-ia64 #1 Mon Jan 5 07:53:11 GMT 2004 ia64 > Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 13:50:04 -0700 > Method: USB Keychain and IDE CDROM > > Machine: hp rx2600 > Processor: 2x Itanium2 > Memory: 6GB > Root Device: SCSI sda > Root Size/partition table: GPT 100MB fat16 (not mounted), ~30G ext3 (/), ~2G swap > Output of lspci: Not available > > Base System Installation Checklist: > > Initial boot worked: [E] - failed to autoboot. manually running bootloader worked
OK, I'll fix the directory layout after beta2. > Configure network HW: [O] > Config network: [O] > Detect CD: [O] > Load installer modules: [E] - failed to load from USB mass storage, worked fine from > CD I havn't tried to use usb at all on my box. Hopefully Dannf's new kernel packages (2.4.22 or 23) will provide that module, and I plan on adopting those after beta2. Will have to ensure those modules get included in the initrd. > Detect hard drives: [O] > Partition hard drives: [O] > Create file systems: [O] > Mount partitions: [O] > Install base system: [O] > Install boot loader: [E] - Never got there, couldn't get a kernel installed This is odd. I have the buisnesscard iso here, and it lists 8 kernels, not 4 as you got from the netinst iso. It lists images for itanium and mckinley, smp and up, for 2.4.19 and 2.4.20. I wonder if there is something missing from the netinst iso. The latest ISOs are now on gluck; I'm currently downloading http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/ia64/20040111/sarge-ia64-netinst.iso and will see what that does for me. In the meantime, if you are bored, you might try the latest buisnesscard ISO (from http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/ia64). Something else that may not be obvious; when you partition the target disk you need to use parted to create a FAT16 filesystem on the boot partition, and set the BOOT flag (set N boot on). Thanks, Richard > Reboot: [ ] > [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it > > Comments/Problems: > > I was hoping to do an install off of a USB keychain. I'm using a > 256MB keychain, partitioned as GPT with a 100MB fat16 partition, and the > rest ext3. I copied the contents of the el-torito image into the fat16 > partition and the rest of the CD into the ext3 partition. The system > failed to autoboot when I selected USB for install (the directory and > filename layouts are incorrect for autoboot). I then went to an EFI > Shell and booted manually by typing elilo (I'm using a VGA console for > install). Install went fine till it started looking for a CD. I got it > to look for the install media elsewhere, but it got an error that the > usb-storage module wasn't available. > > I gave up on the USB keychain and popped in a CD. In the processes of > installing the base system, I got some unaligned access errors on the > console. These were mainly from main-menu and anna. Really ought to > fix these, use prctl to turn them off or maybe just turn down the dmesg > level to make them not go to the console. I got the base system > installed and selected the install kernel option. It presented a list > of 4 available kernels. Selecting any of them immediately brought me > back to the main menu w/ the "install kernel" option highlighted. I > checked the /target drive, and no kernel was installed. I tried this > several times before I gave up. > > I have some concerns about using devfs for the install. I'm told > that after install you will not end up with a devfs system, but I > couldn't get that far to verify. It's confusing to be presented with > SCSI devices as host/bus/target/lun when you're really just expecting > sda. I'm aware of all the naming problems with sdX, but using a > deprecated interface doesn't seem like the way to work around it. My 2 > cents. Thanks, > > Alex > > -- > Alex Williamson HP Linux & Open Source Lab > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]