Re: help with install on Dell SC420 / SATA / Sarge / netinst / at a_piix
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 19:45:45 -0600, Colleen Hatfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed an SC420 using the RC2 netinstall CD with expert26 boot parameter yesterday. Both of these bugs seem to be fixed: I can boot without giving acpi=off, and i get no hang after the RTC messages. I just did another install on the same machine to reproduce a different bug, and found that what I had said here was incorrect. The problem isn't fixed in rc2, but in the most recent version of the 2.6.8 kernel that I had gotten via apt from the unstable tree. So it is still best to give acpi=off to the installer (though technically you don't have to if you're willing to ctrl+c a few times). After upgrading to the most recent kernel image in unstable (kernel-image-2.6.8-1-386_2.6.8-10_i386.deb) you will not need that as a boot option and can remove it from /boot/grub/menu.lst. Sorry for any confusion :-( - Colleen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#283377: RC2 install report on Dell SC420, security issue with network-console udeb installer user not being removed
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: RC2 netinstall image for i386, downloaded from http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/rc2/sarge-i386-netinst.iso on 20041126 uname -a: Linux chloe 2.6.8-1-386 #1 Thu Nov 25 04:24:08 UTC 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Date: 20041126, ~23:00 UTC Method: Burnt the netinstall image to CD, using the expert26 boot parameter. Apt sources were unstable over HTTP from mirrors.kernel.org and ftp.debian.org (no proxy). Machine: Dell PowerEdge SC420 Processor: 2.8GHz Pentium 4 Memory: 256MB DDR2-400 SDRAM Root Device: 160GB SATA drive (/dev/sda2) Root Size/partition table: sda1 Primary Dell Utility57.58 sda2 BootPrimary Linux ext3 [/] 39983.09 sda3 Primary Linux ext3 3.54 sda5 Logical Linux swap / Solaris 1003.49 Debian was installed to /dev/sda2; /dev/sda3 is currently formatted but unmounted and unused. Output of lspci and lspci -n: Note: I took the Aureal Vortex sound card out of another machine; it didn't come with the SC420 (but it does work nicely in Debian). lspci: -- :00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. Server Memory Controller Hub (rev 04) :00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. Server Memory Controller Hub PCI Express Port (rev 04) :00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. Graphics Controller (rev 04) :00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03) :00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03) :00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03) :00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03) :00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03) :00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03) :00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03) :00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d3) :00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FR (ICH6/ICH6R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03) :00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 03) :00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801FR/FRW (ICH6R/ICH6RW) SATA Controller (rev 03) :00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03) :02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 01) :04:02.0 Multimedia audio controller: Aureal Semiconductor Vortex 2 (rev fe) lspci -n: - :00:00.0 0600: 8086:2588 (rev 04) :00:01.0 0604: 8086:2589 (rev 04) :00:02.0 0300: 8086:258a (rev 04) :00:1c.0 0604: 8086:2660 (rev 03) :00:1c.1 0604: 8086:2662 (rev 03) :00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:2658 (rev 03) :00:1d.1 0c03: 8086:2659 (rev 03) :00:1d.2 0c03: 8086:265a (rev 03) :00:1d.3 0c03: 8086:265b (rev 03) :00:1d.7 0c03: 8086:265c (rev 03) :00:1e.0 0604: 8086:244e (rev d3) :00:1f.0 0601: 8086:2640 (rev 03) :00:1f.1 0101: 8086:266f (rev 03) :00:1f.2 0101: 8086:2652 (rev 03) :00:1f.3 0c05: 8086:266a (rev 03) :02:00.0 0200: 14e4:1677 (rev 01) :04:02.0 0401: 12eb:0002 (rev fe) Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot worked:[O] 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:[O] Mount partitions: [O] Install base system:[O] Install boot loader:[O] Reboot: [E] Comments/Problems: Error with reboot was http://bugs.debian.org/277298. This problem is fixed in the latest 2.6.8 kernel package in the unstable tree (kernel-image-2.6.8-1-386_2.6.8-10_i386.deb). A more bothersome (security-related) problem is that when the network-console udeb is loaded and used to remotely access the install process via SSH, the installer user isn't deleted from the system at the end of the install process. Here's what I did: - Booted from the RC2 netinstall CD for i386 with the expert26 boot option - Loaded the network-console udeb so that I would be able to SSH into the installer - When I was given the option to Continue installation remotely using SSH, I set a password for the installer user and then used it to SSH in from another machine. The screen where you set the installer user's password says, This password is used only by the Debian installer, and will be discarded once you finish the installation. However, this is not the case - this user persists after completion of the install and rebooting, etc. From /etc/passwd:
Bug#283377: RC2 install report on Dell SC420, security issue with network-console udeb installer user not being removed
On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 19:06:23 +0100, Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 28 November 2004 17:52, Colleen Hatfield wrote: The screen where you set the installer user's password says, This password is used only by the Debian installer, and will be discarded once you finish the installation. However, this is not the case - this user persists after completion of the install and rebooting, etc. There is code that does remove this user at the end of the base-configuration stage (base-config) after the reboot. I have checked on an installation I did myself using ssh (on an emulated s390 IBM Mainframe), and there the installer user is no longer present. I thought it was pretty weird, so I went ahead and did a second installation on another partition on the same machine to see if I could reproduce it. The only difference between the two installs was that the first time I didn't use base-config to install any packages, while the second time I chose the file-server role since it installs the ssh package, and I wanted to verify that this problem wasn't triggered by me skipping the install additional packages step the first time. This leads me to suspect that something went wrong with your base-config. Some questions: - did you run base-config over ssh (using the installer user) or did you run it on the system itself? On the system itself. I got to the point where it told me to remove the CD and reboot the system, then I did so. - was base-config started automatically or did you run it manually? It was started automatically. - did you complete base-config normally (including the final dialog and final cleanup actions)? Yes. - any other special things you did or noticed that could have caused this? If you have any ideas, I'll be glad to test them on this machine or repeat install as necessary. This is the only thing I've found that looks a little off to me (from the very end of /var/log/debian-installer/syslog): Nov 28 09:30:42 prebaseconfig: info: Running /usr/lib/prebaseconfig.d/70kbd-chooser Nov 28 09:30:42 prebaseconfig: info: Running /usr/lib/prebaseconfig.d/80prepare-network-console Nov 28 09:30:42 prebaseconfig: Installation of network-console-config into /target failed Nov 28 09:30:42 prebaseconfig: info: Running /usr/lib/prebaseconfig.d/90prepare-base-config Nov 28 09:30:42 prebaseconfig: Configuring /etc/inittab to run base-config for regular console Nov 28 09:30:42 prebaseconfig: info: Running /usr/lib/prebaseconfig.d/93save-install-log Nov 28 09:30:42 debconf: Setting debconf/priority to low - what's the output of 'dpkg -l network-console-config' now? No packages found matching network-console-config. Thanks! - Colleen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help with install on Dell SC420 / SATA / Sarge / netinst / at a_piix
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 22:53:52 +0100, Geert Stappers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last wednesday I did spend with installing on a Dell SC420. The great trick was using a 2.6 kernel. They are available for debian-installer (I used the netboot images ( no rebuild needed )) and do provide the ata_piix module. After the reboot you will encounter #277298, where control-C allows you to get a second console, so you can append acpi=off for the next boot. I just installed an SC420 using the RC2 netinstall CD with expert26 boot parameter yesterday. Both of these bugs seem to be fixed: I can boot without giving acpi=off, and i get no hang after the RTC messages. - Colleen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#264961: still sparc cd boot problems?
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 21:43:43 -0400, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your both reported some debian-installer sparc cd boot problems a while ago. Can you check the current daily build (the sid_d-i build) of the installer and see if this is still a problem? Sure, I'll try to test either the netinstall or businesscard image from the URL below on my Blade 100 tonight: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/sparc/current/ If that's not correct, or if it matters which one I test from, just let me know and I'll change plans accordingly. Thanks, Colleen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#264961: still sparc cd boot problems?
First the good news: No more kernel panic from booting the CD! Consider that problem fixed, at least on my Blade 100 with the netinstall image from http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/sparc/current/. The bad news: Now that I can successfully boot from the CDROM, I am encountering some of the problems described here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=275627 I think that the proper BTS etiquette here is to follow up on those problems at that bug, so that's what I'll do. If that is incorrect, just let me know and I'll happily repost here. Thanks, Colleen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#275627: [sparc][netinst][20041007] failure: sun blade 100
I am encountering these problems on my Blade 100 as well. Problem 1: Same as Vincent; keyboard doesn't work from the first installer screen. I am using a Sun Type 6 US UNIX layout USB keyboard. Problem 2: Same as Herbert. Attempting to work around problem 1, I unplugged keyboard/video/mouse and connected a serial console to Debian x86 box (minicom). I get to the Detecting CD-ROM step, where it tells me that it cannot mount the installer CD-ROM, and that it's possible that it's not in the drive. The CD-ROM is definitely in the drive. ;-) As requested, lspci lspci -n (courtesy of Gentoo install): :00:00.0 Host bridge: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Ultra IIe :00:03.0 Non-VGA unclassified device: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU] :00:05.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21152 (rev 03) :00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV] :00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 01) :00:0c.0 Bridge: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. RIO EBUS (rev 01) :00:0c.1 Ethernet controller: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. RIO GEM (rev 01) :00:0c.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. RIO 1394 (rev 01) :00:0c.3 USB Controller: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. RIO USB (rev 01) :00:0d.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c3) :00:13.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 65) :00:00.0 Class 0600: 108e:a001 :00:03.0 Class : 10b9:7101 :00:05.0 Class 0604: 1011:0024 (rev 03) :00:07.0 Class 0601: 10b9:1533 :00:08.0 Class 0401: 10b9:5451 (rev 01) :00:0c.0 Class 0680: 108e:1100 (rev 01) :00:0c.1 Class 0200: 108e:1101 (rev 01) :00:0c.2 Class 0c00: 108e:1102 (rev 01) :00:0c.3 Class 0c03: 108e:1103 (rev 01) :00:0d.0 Class 0101: 10b9:5229 (rev c3) :00:13.0 Class 0300: 1002:4752 (rev 65) I can also provide my dmesg output from the Gentoo boot, or my working 2.4.27 kernel config if that would help anyone. Vincent, re. your cramfs: wrong magic intermittent problem: I have this problem on my Blade 100 as well, when I don't hit Stop+A at precisely the instant that the machine wants it. On my machine I have to send break after initializing memory, and *immediately* after it sends the sync signal to the monitor (Boot device: disk a or whatever is the last line above the ok I get post-break). If I wait any longer than this, I get the cramfs: wrong magic issue when trying to boot from the installer CDROM. If I wait too long before sending the break when trying to boot disk2 (my Gentoo installation), I get a really ugly kernel panic: Aiee! regarding the swapper. This is reproducible 100% of the time on my Blade. Thanks, Colleen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#276182: Installation Report: Pre-RC2 on Dell 600SC, success
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: pre-rc2 i386 netinstall iso, 20041010, http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/i386/pre-rc2/sarge-i386-netinst.iso uname -a: Linux gabbana 2.4.27-1-386 #1 Fri Sep 3 06:24:46 UTC 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Date: 20041010, ~20:00CDT Method: I burned the iso to CD and booted from it. No proxy. Machine: Dell 600SC Processor: 2.4GHz Pentium 4 Memory: 640MB, but it thinks it has 884MB(???) Root Device: 40GB IDE HD, hda Root Size/partition table: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 7.4G 74M 6.9G 2% / tmpfs 443M 0 443M 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda1 118M 9.3M 103M 9% /boot /dev/hda9 6.7G 33M 6.4G 1% /home /dev/hda10919M 8.1M 862M 1% /tmp /dev/hda5 5.5G 225M 5.0G 5% /usr /dev/hda6 7.4G 179M 6.8G 3% /var /dev/hda7 912M 14M 850M 2% /var/log /dev/hda8 7.4G 33M 7.0G 1% /var/www Output of lspci and lspci -n: lspci: :00:00.0 Host bridge: ServerWorks GCNB-LE Host Bridge (rev 32) :00:00.1 Host bridge: ServerWorks GCNB-LE Host Bridge :00:02.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 02) :00:08.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27) :00:0e.0 IDE interface: ServerWorks: Unknown device 0217 (rev a0) :00:0f.0 Host bridge: ServerWorks CSB6 South Bridge (rev a0) :00:0f.1 IDE interface: ServerWorks CSB6 RAID/IDE Controller (rev a0) :00:0f.2 USB Controller: ServerWorks CSB6 OHCI USB Controller (rev 05) :00:0f.3 ISA bridge: ServerWorks GCLE-2 Host Bridge lspci -n: :00:00.0 0600: 1166:0017 (rev 32) :00:00.1 0600: 1166:0017 :00:02.0 0200: 8086:100e (rev 02) :00:08.0 0300: 1002:4752 (rev 27) :00:0e.0 0101: 1166:0217 (rev a0) :00:0f.0 0600: 1166:0203 (rev a0) :00:0f.1 0101: 1166:0213 (rev a0) :00:0f.2 0c03: 1166:0221 (rev 05) :00:0f.3 0601: 1166:0227 Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot worked:[O] 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:[O] Mount partitions: [O] Install base system:[O] Install boot loader:[O] Reboot: [O/E] Comments/Problems: A little more about my installer choices: At the boot: prompt I chose gave the parameters expert netcfg/disable_dhcp=true. At the load installer components from CD step, I enabled network-console and open-ssh-client-udeb so that I could have SSH access during the installer. Although I gave it the netcfg/disable_dhcp=true boot parameter, it still asked me whether I wanted to use DHCP or give parameters for a static configuration. I'm not sure whether that is intended behaviour or not, but I found it a little strange. It loaded the correct module for my network card (e1000). While looking for drivers, it gave me the somewhat scary message that it was not able to load some of the modules needed to power my hardware. I'm not really sure what that was about (I can't remeber which modules it listed, but it was IDE stuff and included ide-scsi and 3 or 4 others). AFAICT everything works just fine, though I haven't tested the floppy drive. The installer asked me about PCMCIA three different times, which was rather annoying, though completely harmless. After configuring networking, I was told that I could set a password and SSH into the install as the installer user, and I did. It was really nice to be able to do this. I suspect that this could have something to do with the weirdness that followed: at the end of the installer I was told that the base system had been installed, and to please remove the CDROM from the drive and reboot. I did so. When it came back up, it dropped me into a login prompt. Of course, at this point I hadn't been asked to set a root password or set up any user accounts, so I just logged in as root with no password. I expected it to drop me into base-config, but it didn't. It wasn't a huge issue because I just ran /usr/sbin/base-config myself, but that has the potential to be confusing for someone who might not be aware of the base-config command. Thanks to everyone for all the hard work! - Colleen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#269154: Installation report: i386 businesscard iso from 20040825 on Dell Dimension XPS T450
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: 2004-08-25 version of the i386 business card.iso from http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/i386/current/ uname -a: Linux fendi 2.4.27-1-686 #1 Sun Aug 15 01:13:41 UTC 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Date: 2004-08-27, 23:00 UTC Method: Burned a CD from the ISO; used expert boot parameter, http, no proxy Machine: Dell Dimension XPS T450 Processor: 450MHz Pentium III Memory: 128MB Root Device: 20GB Western Digital IDE drive (WDC WD204BB), /dev/hda Root Size/partition table: Feel free to paste the full partition table, with notes on which partitions are mounted where. # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # file system mount point type options dump pass proc/proc procdefaults0 0 /dev/hda3 / ext3defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda1 /boot ext3defaults0 2 /dev/hda5 /home ext3defaults0 2 /dev/hda6 /tmpext3defaults0 2 /dev/hda7 /usrext3defaults0 2 /dev/hda8 /varext3defaults0 2 /dev/hda9 /var/logext3defaults0 2 /dev/hda2 noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/hdc/media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0/media/floppy0 autorw,user,noauto 0 0 Output of lspci and lspci -n: fendi:~# lspci :00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03) :00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03) :00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02) :00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) :00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) :00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02) :00:0e.0 Multimedia controller: C-Cube Microsystems Cinemaster C 3.0 DVD Decoder (rev 01) :00:0f.0 Multimedia audio controller: Aureal Semiconductor Vortex 2 (rev fe) :00:10.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller :01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5 [RIVA TNT2/TNT2 Pro] (rev 11) fendi:~# lspci -n :00:00.0 0600: 8086:7190 (rev 03) :00:01.0 0604: 8086:7191 (rev 03) :00:07.0 0601: 8086:7110 (rev 02) :00:07.1 0101: 8086:7111 (rev 01) :00:07.2 0c03: 8086:7112 (rev 01) :00:07.3 0680: 8086:7113 (rev 02) :00:0e.0 0480: 123f: (rev 01) :00:0f.0 0401: 12eb:0002 (rev fe) :00:10.0 0200: 100b:0020 :01:00.0 0300: 10de:0028 (rev 11) Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot worked:[O] 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:[O] Mount partitions: [O] Install base system:[O] Install boot loader:[O] Reboot: [O] Comments/Problems: The install went quite well - no problems to speak of. It did ask me twice about PCMCIA, but that wasn't a big deal. Did not install X, so I have no idea if that works or not. Great job all, and I especially appreciated the clear explanation of the boot parameter options at the beginning of the installer. I do have one question, though I'm not sure if this is the proper place to ask or not: The installer has me add locations to /etc/apt/sources.list. This works well, and adds both a deb and a deb-src line for each mirror. It asked if I wanted security updates, so I said yes and it added a deb line for security. It does not, however, add a deb-src line for security. Why not? I only ask because I don't think that it's made particularly obvious anywhere that (as far as I can tell) you have to have a deb-src line for security to retreive the most recent source versions of packages that have had security updates. I didn't notice this in the installer manual, the installer itself, the APT HOWTO, or the man pages for sources.list or apt-get. If I overlooked an explanation of this somewhere, I apologize. I am just curious about the omission since I almost got bitten by this in the past when building openssl from source. For example, on Woody currently if you apt-get source openssl without a deb-src line for security, you get the source for openssl_0.9.6c-2.woody.4, but if you include that line in sources.list you get the openssl_0.9.6c-2.woody.6 source. Thanks! - Colleen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
