Package: installation-reports Boot method: <How did you boot the installer? CD? floppy? network?> Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/alpha/iso-cd/debian-test ing-alpha-CD-1.iso Date: 13th December 2006
Machine: Digital Personal Workstation Processor: Alpha Memory: 128M Partitions: No chance. <df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred> Output of lspci -nn and lspci -vnn: >From Digital Unix-Shell: show dev dkb0.0.0.207.0 DKB0 Thoshiba CD-ROM XM-63 1012 dkc0.0.0.1004.0 DKC0 R22CC-KA 5520 dkc100.1.0.1004.0 DKC100 R22CC-KA 5520 dva0.0.0.0.1 DVA0 ewa0.0.0.3.0 EWA0 00-00-F8-76-4F-40 pkc0.7.0.1004.0 PKC0 SCSI Bus ID 7 5.57 pqa0.0.0.107.0 PQA0 PCI EIDE pqb0.0.0.207.0 PQB0 PCI EIDE Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot: [E] boot dkb0 => The screen gets red -> starts aboot "Linux/Alpha SRM bootloader version 0.9b" -> loads compressed boot/vmlinuz -> loads initrd -> starts kernel "/boot: starting kernel boot/vmlinuz with arguments ramdisk_size=16384 root=/dev/ ram devfs=mount,dall console=ttyS0" Yes root=/dev/ ram <- with the space! The system waits serveral seconds and then accesses the CD-ROM again. Nothing else happens. I can activate the 2nd console with a BusyBox Console 4: srm_env: version 0.0.5 loaded successfully -> starting debian installer -> setting debconf/language to en -> main-menu: DEBUG: resolver (dhcp-client-udeb) package doesn't exist 8ignored0 -> main-menu: INFO: Menu item 'localechooser' selected' ... it seems that the debian installer is executed correctly - BUT nothing appears on the screen.... I can start /sbin/debian-installer on the 2nd console. But after choosing the language, nothing else happens again. I can kill the debian-installer, but it respawns every time again and seems to handicap the 2nd debian-installer on the 2nd console. Detect network card: [ ] Configure network: [ ] Detect CD: [ ] Load installer modules: [ ] Detect hard drives: [ ] Partition hard drives: [ ] Install base system: [ ] Clock/timezone setup: [ ] User/password setup: [ ] Install tasks: [ ] Install boot loader: [ ] Overall install: [ ] Comments/Problems: <Description of the install, in prose, and any thoughts, comments and ideas you had during the initial install.> I hope I can help.... Greetings, Torben Keil