Package: installation-reports Boot method: USB Stick Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.1a/amd64/iso-cd/debian-6.0.1a-amd64-CD-1.iso Date: Wed Jun 8 13:55:53 CST 2011
Machine: H3C Neocean IX-1540 Storage Server Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6400 @ 2.13GHz Memory: 4GiB DDR2 Partitions: Not partitioned yet Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn): 0000:00:00.0 Class 0600: 8086:2778 (rev c0) 0000:00:01.0 Class 0604: 8086:2779 (rev c0) 0000:00:03.0 Class 0604: 8086:277a (rev c0) 0000:00:1d.0 Class 0c03: 8086:27c8 (rev 01) 0000:00:1d.1 Class 0c03: 8086:27c9 (rev 01) 0000:00:1d.2 Class 0c03: 8086:27ca (rev 01) 0000:00:1d.3 Class 0c03: 8086:27cb (rev 01) 0000:00:1d.7 Class 0c03: 8086:27cc (rev 01) 0000:00:1e.0 Class 0604: 8086:244e (rev e1) 0000:00:1f.0 Class 0601: 8086:27b8 (rev 01) 0000:00:1f.1 Class 0101: 8086:27df (rev 01) 0000:00:1f.2 Class 0101: 8086:27c0 (rev 01) 0000:00:1f.3 Class 0c05: 8086:27da (rev 01) 0000:01:00.0 Class 0200: 8086:1209 (rev 10) 0000:02:00.0 Class 0604: 10b5:8508 (rev ac) 0000:03:01.0 Class 0604: 10b5:8508 (rev ac) 0000:03:02.0 Class 0604: 10b5:8508 (rev ac) 0000:03:03.0 Class 0604: 10b5:8508 (rev ac) 0000:03:04.0 Class 0604: 10b5:8508 (rev ac) 0000:04:00.0 Class 0604: 1166:0103 (rev c3) 0000:05:00.0 Class 0200: 14e4:164c (rev 12) 0000:06:00.0 Class 0604: 1166:0103 (rev c3) 0000:07:00.0 Class 0200: 14e4:164c (rev 12) 0000:08:00.0 Class 0604: 1166:0103 (rev c3) 0000:09:00.0 Class 0200: 14e4:164c (rev 12) 0000:0a:00.0 Class 0604: 1166:0103 (rev c3) 0000:0b:00.0 Class 0200: 14e4:164c (rev 12) 0000:0c:00.0 Class 0104: 193d:1500 (rev 09) Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot: [O] Detect network card: [E] Configure network: [ ] Detect CD: [ ] Load installer modules: [ ] Detect hard drives: [ ] Partition hard drives: [ ] Install base system: [ ] Clock/timezone setup: [ ] User/password setup: [ ] Install tasks: [ ] Install boot loader: [ ] Overall install: [ ] Comments/Problems: The system was a H3C Neocean IX-1540 Storage Server, a 4U appliance. It was shipped with SuSE Linux, however is a old kernel. By the way, it is a headless server, even without slot to insert video adapter. I used a USB stick to boot the computer, with output to serial console, and I used another computer to connect to the console port. It freezes at this point: This installation step depends on one or more other steps that have not yet been performed. Choose an installation step: 1. Detect network hardware [*] Prompt: '?' for help, default=1> Detecting network hardware ..95% Detect network hardware ----------------------- Some PCMCIA hardware needs special resource configuration options in order to work, and can cause the computer to freeze otherwise. For example, some Dell laptops need "exclude port 0x800-0x8ff" to be specified here. These options will be added to /etc/pcmcia/config.opts. See the installation manual or the PCMCIA HOWTO for more information. For most hardware, you do not need to specify anything here. PCMCIA resource range options: Prompt: '?' for help> ..100% I added hw-detect/start_pcmcia=false to the boot args, however it is of no use -- the system insists to detect PCMCIA device, which do not present in the server.
