FYI
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Message-ID: <161687355375.3666.12906764209603803348.reportbug@alpha>
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2021 20:32:33 +0100
Subject: Bug#986009: installation-reports: document qemu workarounds and bug in
newer d-i image
Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i
X-Debbugs-Cc: t...@mirbsd.de
Boot method: CD
Image version:
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2020-10-12/debian-10.0.0-alpha-NETINST-1.iso
Date: 2021-03-26 to 2021-03-27
Machine: qemu-system-alpha on a buster host
Partitions:
root@alpha:~# fdisk -l
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Disk /dev/sda: 40 GiB, 42949672960 bytes, 83886080 sectors
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Disk model: QEMU HARDDISK
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Geometry: 255 heads, 2 sectors/track, 164482 cylinders
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Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
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Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
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I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
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Disklabel type: bsd
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SliceStart End Sectors Size Type Fsize Bsize Cpg
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a1 1954 1954 977K ext2 0 0 0
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b 1955 353517 351563 171.7M ext2 0 0 0
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c 353518 81884768 81531251 38.9G ext2 0 0 0
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d 81884769 83886078 2001310 977.2M swap 0 0 0
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root@alpha:~# df -Tl
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Filesystem Type 1K-blocksUsed Available Use% Mounted on
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udev devtmpfs 2052568 0 2052568 0% /dev
tmpfs tmpfs 413304 472412832 1% /run
/dev/sda3 ext4 39860300 1123656 36682092 3% /
tmpfs tmpfs 2066512 0 2066512 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs tmpfs 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock
/dev/sda2 ext2170219 68778 92653 43% /boot
tmpfs tmpfs 413296 0413296 0% /run/user/0
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [O]
Detect network card:[O]
Configure network: [O]
Detect media: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Clock/timezone setup: [O]
User/password setup:[O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Install base system:[E]
Install tasks: [O]
Install boot loader:[?]
Overall install:[↓]
Comments/Problems:
-
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/debian-installer/2021-01-03/alpha/debian-installer-images_20201202+nmu1_alpha.tar.gz
is insufficient, it lacks the ISO which contains nic-modules
- Tried
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2021-02-01/debian-10.0.0-alpha-NETINST-1.iso
first but it contains errors, e.g. no /var/lib/dpkg/status,
thus used a random older image; turned out to work
- Ran into #985954 so used raw qemu instead of libvirt/virt-manager
- qemu-system-alpha’s SRM firmware ("BIOS") seems to be unable to do
more than set up the bus and echo back REPL commands instead of executing
them, so only direct kernel boot is usable, so I copied out the kernel and
initrd from the ISO and ran:
qemu-system-alpha -cpu ev68-alpha-cpu -m 2048 -drive
format=raw,file=/dev/vg-evolvis-wirt/alpha -drive
format=raw,file=debian-10.0.0-alpha-NETINST-1.iso -nographic -net nic -net user
-kernel vmlinux-alpha -initrd initrd-alpha.gz -append console=ttyS0
Installation using the serial console, including screen, worked fine.
- After install, booting from the HDD failed (see above), so I used
partprobe (kpartx, normally the tool of choice, failed to recognise
the BSD disklabel used by SRM and thus Linux/Alpha) to map the boot
partition onto the host and copied kernel and initrd out and boot with:
qemu-system-alpha -cpu ev68-alpha-cpu -m 4096 -drive
format=raw,file=/dev/vg-evolvis-wirt/alpha -nographic -net nic -net user
-kernel ~/vmlinux-5.10.0-5-alpha-generic -initrd
~/initrd.img-5.10.0-5-alpha-generic -append 'console=ttyS0
root=UUID=6381e09c-4567-4fff-bbe4-608973308f65'
- After install, getting tons of unaligned messages from dbus:
[ 320.117023] dbus-daemon(366): unaligned trap at 02080bf0:
f6857c0e 28 18
⚠ Unfortunately there was no way to disable usrmerge in d-i,
so I’m now left with a system I cannot build on and have
to resort to debootstrapping me a chroot
Please make sure that any installation logs that you think would
be useful are attached to this report. Please compress large
files using g
