Your message dated Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:57:57 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Closing old installation report #303902 has caused the Debian Bug report #303902, regarding Package: installation-reports to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Compiled by Drew Stephens <[email protected]> Debian-installer-version: Sarge RC3 installer; obtained 3rd week of March uname -a: Linux gibson 2.4.29 #14 SMP Fri Mar 25 20:40:22 EST 2005 alpha GNU/Linux Date: 3rd week of March Method: Installed using a Sarge RC3 netboot image, booted off the CD disk whichwent just fine. The installer went fine as well, aside from being *painfully* slow to show a new menu (ie, you hit enter to go to the next screen, said screen won't show up for 5-15 seconds). The install went fine, all the way up to booting the newly installed kernel. It seems that the init ramdisk wasn't created properly and didn't have the driver for the SCSI card (SYM53C8XX chipset). I tried numerous things, from using the initrd off the installer with and without the installer's kernelto no avail. I don't know much about init ramdisks, so that might have been hopeless from the start. I grabbed a Gentoo livecd and used it to boot and chroot into my Debian install. I built a kernel, installed it and everything has worked just fine since. Machine: DEC Alphaserver 2100 Processor: 4x200 Memory: 512MB Root Device: SCSI, attached to SYM53C8xx card. /dev/sda3 is the root partition; it's a 2GB disk. Root Size/partition table: gibson:/usr/src/linux# fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 2104 MB, 2104565760 bytes 65 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1019 cylinders Units = cylinders of 4030 * 512 = 2063360 bytes 5 partitions: # start end size fstype [fsize bsize cpg] a: 1* 1* 0* ext2 b: 1* 40* 38* ext2 c: 40* 958* 918* ext2 d: 958* 1020* 62* swap Output of lspci and lspci -n: gibson:/usr/src/linux# lspci 0000:00:00.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21040 [Tulip] (rev 22) 0000:00:01.0 Non-VGA unclassified device: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c810 (rev 01) 0000:00:02.0 Non-VGA unclassified device: Intel Corp. 82375EB/SB PCI to EISA Bridge (rev 03) 0000:00:07.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 30) gibson:/usr/src/linux# lspci -n 0000:00:00.0 0200: 1011:0002 (rev 22) 0000:00:01.0 0000: 1000:0001 (rev 01) 0000:00:02.0 0000: 8086:0482 (rev 03) 0000:00:07.0 0200: 1011:0019 (rev 30) 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: As I said in the install description, the reboot didn't go so well. The initrdseemingly didn't have the driver for the SYM53C8xx (Adaptec?) card in the system. I'm happy to provide any more information as needed. -- Drew Stephens <[email protected]> (202) 390-8165<<attachment: drew.vcf>>
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--- Begin Message ---We are closing this installation report for one of the following reasons: - it was reported with a pre-lenny version of Debian Installer. - indications in the installation report give the feeling that the reported problem waslying in another software, unrelated to D-I, which we can't easily identify. - indications in the installation report suggest that it may have been fixed in a more recent version of a D-I component - it was successful and we forgot closing it..:-) - it has no information we consider useful The D-I team is currently in the process of cleaning out the old spool of installation reports that haven't bene processed yet. In case you think that the problem you reported has chances to be still present, please reiterate your installation test with a more recent image of D-I, if you're in position of doing this. You'll find daily builds at http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer. We recommend you choose the netboot image, in the "daily builds section", then choose to install "squeeze" when prompted. If some problems are found, please report them with a new bug sent against installation-reports. Many thanks for your understanding and your help improving Debian, past and present.
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