Bug#420181: Installation report 4.0 r0 "Etch" on IBM p5 510 inside LPAR

2007-04-28 Thread Gottfried Scheckenbach 
Original problems:

Initial boot:   [O] (only install64, install crashes on ramdisk init)
Detect network card:[E] module ibmveth for virtual ethernet is missing
Configure network:  [ ]
Detect CD:  [O]
Load installer modules: [E] md5sum warnings, missing files

Problems are solved - media defective.

Of interest for users of VIO (via HMC or IVM):
I have found a way around burning a new disc (because I'm not physical near to
the machine): I downloded the iso onto the VIO server and putted it via dd into
a newly created virtual disc aka LV on the VIO. I attached this virtual disc as
secondary hard disc to the LPAR and booted the LPAR using the defictive cdrom.
After running into the missing files problem on initializaton of the installer I
remounted /cdrom from this second hard disc.

The installation went well:

Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot:   [O]
Detect network card:[O] module ibmveth has been loaded later on
Configure network:  [O] IP via bootp -> /etc/resolv.conf not set
Detect CD:  [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives:  [O] problem fs ext3 formatting, yaboot on LVM problem
Install base system:[O]
Clock/timezone setup:   [O]
User/password setup:[O]
Install tasks:  [O]
Install boot loader:[O]
Overall install:[O]

But I had some minor problems:

After the network configuration (IP send via bootp protocol!) the installer asks
for nameserver-ip and domain - correct. He is putting this information into the
target system (/target) but not into the installation environment. Thus
accessing the mirrors later on configuring apt fails.

I made several installation runs and only one time I could use ext3 formatting
of filesystems. All other runs (especially the last one...) I had to use
reiserfs because libblkid.so.1 was not found. I have no idea, what has gone
wrong - perhaps it is a side effect of my cdrom workaraound.

First I used "guided partitioning with LVM, whole disc" and as default the
installer puts the /-filesystem into the system vg. Then /etc/yaboot.conf is
inside of the vg and yaboot has obiously no access - message is "missing config
file or unknow filesystem".

Now I'm happy in having super small footprint and super stable debian running on
this machine! Many thanks to all who worked on etch!

Gottfried



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Bug#420181: Installation report 4.0 r0 "Etch" on IBM p5 510 inside LPAR

2007-04-20 Thread Gottfried Scheckenbach 
Package: installation-reports

Boot method: cdrom
Image version: debian-40r0-powerpc-CD-1.iso,07-Apr-2007,17:42,629M
Date: today

Machine: IBM p5 model 510 inside LPAR
Processor: Power5+
Memory: 1G
Partitions: not reached this stage

Output of lspci -nn and lspci -vnn:
"no output"

Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot:   [O] (only install64, install crashes on ramdisk init)
Detect network card:[E] module ibmveth for virtual ethernet is missing
Configure network:  [ ]
Detect CD:  [O]
Load installer modules: [E] md5sum warnings, missing files
Detect hard drives: [ ]
Partition hard drives:  [ ]
Install base system:[ ]
Clock/timezone setup:   [ ]
User/password setup:[ ]
Install tasks:  [ ]
Install boot loader:[ ]
Overall install:[ ]

Comments/Problems:
Network install without ibmveth module is not a good idea in case there is no
physical adapter attached to the lpar - p.e. usage of IVM and not HMC. Do
testing images exist, which I can use?

I tried also the netinst iso and burned it on some other writer. I checked the
md5sums of the downloaded isos - they have been ok. Thus I think, the media I
booted the lpar are ok.

/var/log/syslog shows the following entries:

Apr 18 12:56:34 cdrom-detect: CD-ROM mount succeeded:
device=/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/cd
Apr 18 12:56:34 cdrom-detect: Detected CD 'Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 "Etch" -
Official powerpc CD Binary-1 20070407-14:58'
Apr 18 12:56:48 cdrom-detect: Detected CD with 'stable' (etch) distribution
...
Apr 18 12:56:48 cdrom-retriever: warning: Unable to find
contrib/debian-installer/binary-powerpc/Packages in /cdrom/dists/etch/Release.
Apr 18 12:56:48 cdrom-retriever: warning: Unable to find
contrib/debian-installer/binary-powerpc/Packages.gz in 
/cdrom/dists/etch/Release.
...
... lot of normal installer messages
...
Apr 18 12:56:48 anna[5190]: DEBUG: resolver (yaboot-installer): accept di-utils,
already installed
Apr 18 12:56:48 anna[5190]: DEBUG: resolver (yaboot-installer): accept
archdetect, already installed
Apr 18 12:56:53 anna[5190]: WARNING **: bad md5sum
Apr 18 12:57:03 anna[5190]: WARNING **: bad md5sum
Apr 18 12:57:05 main-menu[952]: WARNING **: Configuring 'load-cdrom' failed with
error code 7
Apr 18 12:57:05 main-menu[952]: WARNING **: Menu item 'load-cdrom' failed.

On checking the integrity of the cd in the first run I get
"./dists/etch/main/binary-powerpc/Packages file failed the MD5 checksum
verification. ...".  In the second run Packages.gz fails. I did a lot more runs
and usually the run stops at Packages but sometimes it stops at Packages.gz.

The messages of loading ibmvscsi are looking good:
Apr 18 12:56:01 kernel: ibmvscsi: host srp version: 16.a, host partition vio
(1), OS 3, max io 262144
Apr 18 12:56:01 kernel:   Vendor: AIX   Model: VDASD Rev:
Apr 18 12:56:01 kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access  ANSI SCSI
revision: 03
Apr 18 12:56:01 kernel:   Vendor: AIX   Model: VOPTA Rev:
Apr 18 12:56:01 kernel:   Type:   CD-ROM ANSI SCSI
revision: 04
Apr 18 12:56:01 kernel: SCSI device sda: 10485760 512-byte hdwr sectors (5369 
MB)
Apr 18 12:56:01 kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
Apr 18 12:56:01 kernel: sda: Mode Sense: 17 00 00 08
Apr 18 12:56:01 kernel: sda: cache data unavailable
Apr 18 12:56:01 kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through
Apr 18 12:56:01 kernel: SCSI device sda: 10485760 512-byte hdwr sectors (5369 
MB)
Apr 18 12:56:01 kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
Apr 18 12:56:01 kernel: sda: Mode Sense: 17 00 00 08
Apr 18 12:56:01 kernel: sda: cache data unavailable
Apr 18 12:56:01 kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through
Apr 18 12:56:01 kernel:  sda: sda1 sda2
Apr 18 12:56:01 kernel: sd 0:0:1:0: Attached scsi disk sda
Apr 18 12:56:01 kernel: sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x cd/rw cdda tray
Apr 18 12:56:01 kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
Apr 18 12:56:01 kernel: sr 0:0:2:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
Apr 18 12:56:01 kernel: sd 0:0:1:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
Apr 18 12:56:01 kernel: sr 0:0:2:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5

Has anybody of you some idea what is going wrong here?

Gottfried



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