Hello! Last week-end, I tried the new debian-installer on my old notebook without success :
Debian-installer-version: Beta1 : http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/installer-i386/20031109/images/ Daily build (15/11/03) : http://people.debian.org/~sjogren/d-i/images/daily/ Date: 15/11/2003 Method: I tried to install with boot floppy and can't start the debian installer (see below). Machine: Notebook compaq contura ( http://www.geocities.com/dueze/contura430c.html ) Processor: 486 DX4 100 Memory: 16 Mo Root Device: ide, /dev/hda Root Size/partition table: Disk /dev/hda: 32 heads, 63 sectors, 700 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2016 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 444 447520+ 6 FAT16 /dev/hda2 445 460 16128 82 Linux swap /dev/hda3 461 700 241920 83 Linux Output of lspci: no PCI Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked: [O] Configure network HW: [ ] Config network: [ ] Detect CD: [ ] Load installer modules: [E] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [ ] Create file systems: [ ] Mount partitions: [ ] Install base system: [ ] Install boot loader: [ ] Reboot: [ ] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: With beta1 floppy I've got a kernel panic : after the boot, I have : [...] VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). Trying to move old root to /initrd ... okay Mounted devfs on /dev Freeing unused kernel memory: 76k freed mount: Mounting devfs on /dev failed: Device or ressource busy loop: loaded (max 8 devices) [...] USB Mass Storage suppot registered. I don't take care of the USB problem and I insert the root floppy. Debian Installer is loading after there is a lot of errors on cp (no space left) and : starting the installer.... SIGBUS (6 times) puis /sbin/init: 178: cannot open dev/console: No such file Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! After that, I've tried to boot with BOOT_DEBUG=3 : the mount command, just after the boot gives : /dev/root.old on /initrd type ext2 (rw) /dev/root..old on / type ext3 (rw) none on /dev type devfs (rw) /proc on /proc type proc (rw) After that I type exit to launch hardware detection that seems to run successfully. I type exit again to launch the installer and : Setting up filesystem... + umount /initrd + mount -o loop mnt/tmp-initrd /initrd + cp -a /initrd/bin /initrd/dev [...] /initrd/var mnt cp: Write Error: No space left on device [Un grand nombre de fois] + rm -f mnt/tmp-initrd + umount /initrd Then I'am on a debug shell : mount give : /dev/root.old on / type ext2 (rw) none on /dev type devfs (rw) /proc on /proc type proc (rw) shm on /mnt type shm (rw) (free, df and ls don't work) exit + umount proc + echo Starting the installer... Starting the installer... + cd mnt + pivot_root . initrd + mount -t proc proc proc SIGBUS + mount -t devfs devfs dev SIGBUS + [ ! -x /usr/bin/chroot ] SIGBUS + rm -f sbin/init SIGBUS + ln -s ../bin/busybox sbin/init SIGBUS + debugshell before chroot + [ 3 -gt 2 ] SIGBUS /sbin/init: 178: cannot open dev/console: No such file + exec /usr/sbin/chroot . /sbin/init Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! I've also tried with devfs=nomount at the boot : - It doesn't ask me for another floppy after booting (Nothing else on the screen after USB Mass Storage support registered) but seems to look for a floppy.... - If I put the root floppy, it loads it and : Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! After that I've tried with the last version available : http://people.debian.org/~sjogren/d-i/images/daily/ (no MD5SUMS are available so I don't check it) - Same error about devfs at the boot (Mounting devfs on /dev failed: Device or ressource busy) - The mount command give the same result as before - Same error with cp (No space left) - No error after starting the installer - The installer is not able to load vesafb and re-tries, re-tries, etc... (what about vga16-fb ?) - If I rename vga16-fb to vesafb (hum...) I obtain a white screen with : /usr/share/debconf/frontend: error while loading shared librairies: /usr/lib/cdebconf/libdebconf.so: file too short As I don't know which packages this bugs belong to, I propose to open free bugs on the installation package : - devfs problem - vesafb problem - libdebconf problem What are you thinking about this ? -- Djoumé SALVETTI
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