Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i
Dear Maintainer,
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* What led up to the situation?
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
* What was the outcome of this action?
* What outcome did you expect instead?
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-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: CD
Image version:
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.1.0/amd64/iso-cd/debian-7.1.0-amd64-netinst.iso
(via Bittorrent)
Date: Date and time of the install
Machine: Custom machine: ASUS Sabertooth 990FX chipset, AMD FX 6300
Partitions: df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred
I don't know how to get the raw partition table. Please Specify.
Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use%
Mounted on
rootfs rootfs48057224 5755232 39860776 13% /
udev devtmpfs 10240 0 10240 0% /dev
tmpfstmpfs 1637004 588 1636416 1% /run
/dev/mapper/debian-root ext4 48057224 5755232 39860776 13% /
tmpfstmpfs 5120 0 5120 0%
/run/lock
tmpfstmpfs 3274000 0 3274000 0%
/run/shm
/dev/mapper/debian-boot ext4959512 36468874304 5% /boot
/dev/mapper/debian-data ext3 20642428 10719832 8874020 55% /data
/dev/mapper/debian-home ext3 96118540 79467036 11768868 88% /home
/dev/mapper/debian-video ext3 206424760 169039648 26899352 87%
/home/faheem/video
/dev/mapper/backup-local_src ext3 36124288 33363128926152 98%
/usr/local/src
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 CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Clock/timezone setup: [O]
User/password setup:[O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Install base system:[O]
Install tasks: [O]
Install boot loader:[E]
Overall install:[O]
Comments/Problems:
Description of the install, in prose, and any thoughts, comments
and ideas you had during the initial install.
BEGIN COMMENTS
This machine is a custom machine that was originally built for me in
2007. This was a amd64 capable machine, but which I had installed i386
on in 2007.
The motherboard died, and so the MB, processor, and memory had to be
replaced. The hard drives actually worked with the new hardware with
only minor adjustments for the ethernet and display cards due to them
having changed their location information. However, I decided to
reinstall because at the time the machine died, it was running
squeeze, and wheezy has come out shortly before. I could not do an
upgrade because I had decided to switch to amd64, partly because the
machine now had 16GB of memory after the new hardware was put
in. Therefore, the harddisks had prexisting sw raid and lvm devices at
the time of the installation. I just enabled them.
The install went smoothly for the most part. The main issue was with
GRUB 2.
During the install, when the installer asked to install GRUB to a
device, I inadvertantly pressed enter without entering a device, but
it went ahead and ran anyway, leaving me wondering what it was doing.
SUGGESTION: Say what grub-install does if no device is given and enter
is pressed.
On an earlier occasion, I had successfully used grml to install GRUB 2
to a raid device by chrooting my system and then doing
grub-install /dev/md0
or possibly md1.
After the GRUB install ran with empty device, I tried entering
/dev/md0, and /dev/md1, and both of these gave me an error. At this
point I was not sure to do, and exited, which was probably a
mistake. When I rebooted the machine was unbootable,
unsurprisingly.
I then went to the rescue mode in the GRUB installer. When I tried
grub-install /dev/md0
and
grub-install /dev/md1
I got a segmentation fault. Then I tried
grub-install /dev/hda
and
grub-install /dev/hdb
which fixed the problem. The machine booted into the new system, but
my passwords did not work. Maybe the rescue mode overwrote something,
I dunno.
So I ran the installer from scratch a second time. This time. I
entered the device /dev/sda and then went back a second time and
entered /dev/sdb. Then the installation completed successfully, and I
was able to boot and log into the new system.
COMMENT: One oddity I noticed is that while running grub-install, the installer
popped up a window asking to install the wheezy netinst cd, which was
already in the drive. Hitting Ok didn't make the window go
away.
