Bug#791794: INSTALL REPORT (Jessie on QNAP TS-420U)

[Peter Nagel]

Package: installation-reports

Boot method:  network

Image version: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/installer-armel/current/images/kirkwood/network-console/qnap/ts-41x/

Date:  June 7, 2015

Machine:  QNAP TS-420U
Processor:  Marvell 1.6 GHz
Memory:  1GB DDR3

Partitions:
Filesystem     Type     1K-blocks   Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/md0       ext4      19076820 986676  17098044   6% /
udev           devtmpfs     10240      0     10240   0% /dev
tmpfs          tmpfs       206704   4436    202268   3% /run
tmpfs          tmpfs       516752      0    516752   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs          tmpfs         5120      0      5120   0% /run/lock
tmpfs          tmpfs       516752      0    516752   0% /sys/fs/cgroup


Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn):

        Subsystem: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device [11ab:11ab]

        Subsystem: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device [11ab:11ab]
        Kernel driver in use: sata_mv

        Subsystem: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device [11ab:11ab]

        Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd


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:              [ ]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives:     [O]
Partition hard drives:  [O]
Install base system:    [O]
Clock/timezone setup:   [O]
User/password setup:    [O]
Install tasks:          [O]
Install boot loader:    [E]
Overall install:        [E]

Comments/Problems:

Error message:

Quickfix:

(compare http://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?f=147&t=111076).
After reboot the new installed jessie is starting as expected.
Output of mdstat (cat /proc/mdstat):
  Used RAID1 for Debian installation:
  Personalities : [raid1]
  md0 : active raid1 sdc2[2] sdd2[3](S) sdb2[1] sda2[0]
        19514368 blocks super 1.2 [3/3] [UUU]
PROBLEM:

Error message (from bootlog at serial console)
  Gave up waiting for root device.  Common problems:
       - Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
         - Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?)
         - Check root= (did the system wait for the right device?)
       - Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)

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For comparision:

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device [11ab:6282] (rev 01) 00:01.0 SCSI storage controller [0100]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SX7042 PCI-e 4-port SATA-II [11ab:7042] (rev 02) 01:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device [11ab:6282] (rev 01) 01:01.0 USB controller [0c03]: Etron Technology, Inc. EJ168 USB 3.0 Host Controller [1b6f:7023] (rev 01) Subsystem: Etron Technology, Inc. EJ168 USB 3.0 Host Controller [1b6f:7023] The problem seems to appear only when jessie is installed to RAID (e.g. RAID1)! flash-kernel-installer does not find UUID (see the two lines of syslog below): in-target: UUID eeb34bbe-375a-4dc1-939d-f56b801a4c75 doesn't exist in /dev/disk/by-uuid in-target: Warning: root device /dev/disk/by-uuid/eeb34bbe-375a-4dc1-939d-f56b801a4c75 does not exist When using the command 'udevadm trigger' before base-install the installer is able to install the boot loader and to finish the installation When I shutdown the system and remove any (active) harddisk (from RAID1) the system has problems to boot again. ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/61f390f9-c1db-4fbe-acd7-dd61bbcaeeca does not exist. Dropping to a shell! I've done the same kind of installation with oldstable (= wheezy) which is able to boot without problems even though two (out of three) active disks are missing. (see https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist%40lists.debian.org/msg1336095.html)

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