Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: sarge stable 3.1 r0a netinst i386 CD. Tue Jul 13, 2005 got it from an admin in the BGU CS computing services lab, who downloaded it from an official Debian mirror. uname -a: Linux ilmarinen 2.6.8-2-686 #1 Thu May 19 17:53:30 JST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux Date: Finished circa Wed Jul 13 early A.M., IDT 2005 Method: * Manual installation, at the console. Had a working laptop plugged in as well to talk to the #debian-boot on the irc.freenode.net when problems started happening. * Booted off the ATAPI CD-ROM. Network install from the official Israeli HTTP mirror at deb http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/pub/mirrors/debian/ stable * This happens at home, in a private LAN 10, which is routed (via NAT) to the internet by an Alcatel Speedtouch 510 ADSL modem. Machine: IBM ThinkCentre As per the BIOS machine info screen: * Machine Type/Model: 8189LDG * Flash EEPROM Revision Level: 2AKT48AUS (November 2004, there's a March 2005 version available at the time of writing) * CPU Bus Speed: 800MHz * Memory Speed: 400MHz Processor: processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 2 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz stepping : 9 cpu MHz : 2593.784 cache size : 512 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe cid bogomips : 5144.57 Memory: total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 515900 59044 456856 0 26568 10784 -/+ buffers/cache: 21692 494208 Swap: 1373548 0 1373548 Root Device: SATA WDC 80G drive, sda. discover output from hardware-summary: WDC WD800JD-22JN;/dev/sda Root Size/partition table: Feel free to paste the full partition table, with notes on which partitions are mounted where. * /proc/partitions: major minor #blocks name 8 0 78150744 sda 8 1 128488 sda1 8 2 1373557 sda2 8 3 498015 sda3 8 4 76148100 sda4 254 0 5242880 dm-0 254 1 3145728 dm-1 254 2 2097152 dm-2 254 3 7864320 dm-3 * /proc/mounts rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 /dev2/root2 / ext3 rw 0 0 proc /proc proc rw,nodiratime 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0 /dev/sda1 /boot ext3 rw 0 0 /dev/mapper/sys-home /home reiserfs rw,noatime 0 0 /dev/mapper/sys-tmp /tmp reiserfs rw 0 0 /dev/mapper/sys-usr /usr reiserfs rw,noatime 0 0 /dev/mapper/sys-var /var reiserfs rw 0 0 Output of lspci and lspci -n: 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02) 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller (rev 02) 0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02) 0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02) 0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02) 0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #4 (rev 02) 0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02) 0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2) 0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Bridge (rev 02) 0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB (ICH5) Serial ATA 150 Storage Controller (rev 02) 0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02) 0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev a1) 0000:03:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82562EZ 10/100 Ethernet Controller (rev 02) 0000:03:09.0 Communication controller: PCTel Inc HSP MicroModem 56 (rev 01) 0000:03:0c.0 SCSI storage controller: Advanced System Products, Inc ABP940-U / ABP960-U (rev 03) 0000:00:00.0 0600: 8086:2570 (rev 02) 0000:00:01.0 0604: 8086:2571 (rev 02) 0000:00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:24d2 (rev 02) 0000:00:1d.1 0c03: 8086:24d4 (rev 02) 0000:00:1d.2 0c03: 8086:24d7 (rev 02) 0000:00:1d.3 0c03: 8086:24de (rev 02) 0000:00:1d.7 0c03: 8086:24dd (rev 02) 0000:00:1e.0 0604: 8086:244e (rev c2) 0000:00:1f.0 0601: 8086:24d0 (rev 02) 0000:00:1f.2 0101: 8086:24d1 (rev 02) 0000:00:1f.3 0c05: 8086:24d3 (rev 02) 0000:00:1f.5 0401: 8086:24d5 (rev 02) 0000:01:00.0 0300: 10de:0110 (rev a1) 0000:03:08.0 0200: 8086:1050 (rev 02) 0000:03:09.0 0780: 134d:7891 (rev 01) 0000:03:0c.0 0100: 10cd:1300 (rev 03) 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: [E] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [E] Create file systems: [E] Mount partitions: [O] Install base system: [O] Install boot loader: [O] Reboot: [E] Comments/Problems: 1. Detect CD Initially I tried to boot the installer CD into the "linux26" option, and the machine said it was unable to detect my CD-ROM, because, it said, apparently it's a non-ATAPI one and something for which a driver floppy is needed. However, the CD-ROM *is* an ATAPI one. Following FJP's suggestions at #debian-boot, who recognized this as a typical problem for a SATA machine, I rebooted into "expert26", and, when at the "Detect CD-ROM" stage, in the screen that prompts for the modules to pre-load, disabled almost everything, except for ide-cd isofs ide-generic After that, I got a dialog "Unable to load some modules" listing i810-tco e100 ide-mod ide-probe-mod ide-detect ide-floppy which I safely ignored. Selecting "continue" in that dialog lead to normal CD operation further on throughout the initial installer stage (however the CD was again inaccessible after the reboot into the system, see below). After that, I changed the debconf priority back to "high". 2. Partition hard drives/ 3. Create file systems As you can see from the partions dump, I was going to have /boot,swap and / as normal ext3/swap partitions, while /usr /var /home and /tmp were going to be LVM2 reiserfs ones, with the LVM volume taking a partition to which the remaining hard drive space is allocated. I've done such setups in past, e.g., see a successful installation-report from me at bug# 309607. By mistake, I had allocated 7.5M rather than 7.5G to the /usr logical volume :-) as a result, when I told partman that I want it mounted /usr and formatted as reiserfs, I got a message: failed to create a file system: the reiserfs file system creation in partition #1 of LVM VG sys LV usr failed This wasn't very explanatory, and, having hit "GO BACK" to the main menu of the installer, I went to the 2nd vc and did a manual mkreiserfs /dev/sys/usr This one said gave me a more elaborate error message: reiserfs_create_journal: cannot create a journal of 8193 blocks with 18 offset on 2048 blocks I still didn't understand what was going on and tried ext3 instead. This auto-kicked the installation of the base system which then stopped with an error from which I realized that /usr was overflowing :-) only at that moment, when I did a df -h on the second vc, I caught my error. I then went back to the main menu, and returned to the partitioner. First, I went to the type of the file system and asked for reiserfs again. Then, I selected the size (7.5) in the menu, hoping for some kind of a resize dialog. However, as a result, I got a new dialog [!!] Partition disks ??? ??? <Go Back> <Continue> that looped self no matter which of the 2 options I select. (I've promised to FJP to file a separate bug against partman on that, I'll do it when I have a response from BTS on the present installation report to xref the 2). Then I was forced to reboot, and proceeded the same way (expert26/modules selection trick/back to high priority) until the partition hard drives stage. Therein, I entered the LVM configuration menu, and deleted the problematic LV, recreating it again 1K times larger than it was. After that, I re-entered all the mount points, fs types (reiserfs over the LVM all the way), and the mount flags. Thereafter, the file system creation went normally, as the subsequent base system installation. I opted not to select any additional packages at the time. 4. Reboot While the system itself booted OK, I've still marked the item as an error as the cdrom and the cdrw were never recognized after reboot. Previosly, the same box did work with them (this is a fresh reinstall after a hard disk crash), but only through the ide-scsi layer. Here is an excerpt from my pre-crash administration log on that box: Tue FÅb 8 18:47:52 IST 2005 CDROM/CDRW don't work in 2.6. To work around: * Added to /etc/mkinitrd/modules: ide-generic ata_piix sd_mod * cp /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-2-686 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-2-686.bak * mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-2-686 and also in /etc/modules commented sg and ide-scsi, putting ide-cd instead. Now they get recognized but still ide-scsi remaps hdc and hdd. Haven't tried this now yet, but I have all the reasons to believe that it will work again. Please read the bug# 286515/290474 if you're interested in more info on how this worked, including an lsmod output from back then. Brief summary: 1) I know ide-scsi emulation of cd/cdrw is obsolete in 2.6 2) I found no way of making this box work with them otherwise 3) only if ide-scsi support was totally excluded from the (custom kpkg) kernel compilation, the cdrom agreed to work as hdc, however the cdrw never worked, giving the same long timeouts during media detection/write errors as used to be the case when one tried to do recording through the ATAPI IDE drivers back in the 2.4 times. Now, the /etc/modules created by the installer loads ide-cd ide-disk ide-generic psmouse sd_mod I had installed the 686 rather than the installer-supplied 386 variant of the 2.6.8 kernel image, and the lsmod output below is from within the 2.6.8-2-686 after the reboot: Module Size Used by af_packet 22568 2 snd_intel8x0 36460 0 snd_ac97_codec 69988 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_pcm_oss 55080 0 snd_mixer_oss 20096 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm 98728 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 25732 1 snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 11752 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm gameport 4704 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_mpu401_uart 7968 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_rawmidi 25124 1 snd_mpu401_uart snd_seq_device 8200 1 snd_rawmidi snd 57156 9 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device soundcore 10336 1 snd reiserfs 250992 4 capability 4520 0 commoncap 7232 1 capability ide_generic 1408 0 ide_disk 19296 0 ov511 87740 0 ext3 127240 2 jbd 62616 1 ext3 mbcache 9348 1 ext3 sr_mod 17316 0 ide_scsi 17412 0 videodev 10016 1 ov511 ovcamchip 23208 0 i2c_core 24176 1 ovcamchip tsdev 7392 0 mousedev 10476 0 joydev 9984 0 evdev 9600 0 pcspkr 3592 0 usblp 13088 0 shpchp 101900 0 pciehp 99020 0 pci_hotplug 34640 2 shpchp,pciehp intel_agp 22816 0 intel_mch_agp 10608 1 agpgart 34664 2 intel_agp,intel_mch_agp psmouse 20360 0 genrtc 9588 0 dm_mod 59804 5 sd_mod 21728 5 floppy 61200 0 e100 32608 0 mii 5120 1 e100 ide_cd 42656 0 ide_core 139940 4 ide_generic,ide_disk,ide_scsi,ide_cd cdrom 40732 2 sr_mod,ide_cd fbcon 32100 65 vga16fb 13160 1 vgastate 10048 1 vga16fb usbserial 29896 0 usbhid 32224 0 usbkbd 7424 0 ehci_hcd 32004 0 uhci_hcd 33136 0 usbcore 119012 9 ov511,usblp,usbserial,usbhid,usbkbd,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd thermal 12656 0 processor 17264 1 thermal fan 3980 0 sg 39168 0 advansys 82528 0 ata_piix 8132 4 libata 41700 1 ata_piix scsi_mod 125228 6 sr_mod,ide_scsi,sd_mod,sg,advansys,libata unix 28756 0 font 8320 1 fbcon vesafb 6656 0 cfbcopyarea 3872 2 vga16fb,vesafb cfbimgblt 3040 2 vga16fb,vesafb cfbfillrect 3776 2 vga16fb,vesafb > Install logs and other status info is available in /var/log/debian-installer/. I'll take the partman logs from there for the separate partman bug; for other info, please tell me if there's anything else you'd like me to send in out of cdebconf hardware-summary messages partman status syslog there.