Package: installation-reports Version: 20040108-ia64 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable
Debian-installer-version: http://people.debian.org/~manty/testing/netinst/ia64/20040108/sarge-ia64-netinst.iso uname -a: 2.4.20-ia64 #1 Mon Jan 5 07:53:11 GMT 2004 ia64 Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 13:50:04 -0700 Method: USB Keychain and IDE CDROM Machine: hp rx2600 Processor: 2x Itanium2 Memory: 6GB Root Device: SCSI sda Root Size/partition table: GPT 100MB fat16 (not mounted), ~30G ext3 (/), ~2G swap Output of lspci: Not available Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked: [E] - failed to autoboot. manually running bootloader worked Configure network HW: [O] Config network: [O] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [E] - failed to load from USB mass storage, worked fine from CD Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [O] Create file systems: [O] Mount partitions: [O] Install base system: [O] Install boot loader: [E] - Never got there, couldn't get a kernel installed Reboot: [ ] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: I was hoping to do an install off of a USB keychain. I'm using a 256MB keychain, partitioned as GPT with a 100MB fat16 partition, and the rest ext3. I copied the contents of the el-torito image into the fat16 partition and the rest of the CD into the ext3 partition. The system failed to autoboot when I selected USB for install (the directory and filename layouts are incorrect for autoboot). I then went to an EFI Shell and booted manually by typing elilo (I'm using a VGA console for install). Install went fine till it started looking for a CD. I got it to look for the install media elsewhere, but it got an error that the usb-storage module wasn't available. I gave up on the USB keychain and popped in a CD. In the processes of installing the base system, I got some unaligned access errors on the console. These were mainly from main-menu and anna. Really ought to fix these, use prctl to turn them off or maybe just turn down the dmesg level to make them not go to the console. I got the base system installed and selected the install kernel option. It presented a list of 4 available kernels. Selecting any of them immediately brought me back to the main menu w/ the "install kernel" option highlighted. I checked the /target drive, and no kernel was installed. I tried this several times before I gave up. I have some concerns about using devfs for the install. I'm told that after install you will not end up with a devfs system, but I couldn't get that far to verify. It's confusing to be presented with SCSI devices as host/bus/target/lun when you're really just expecting sda. I'm aware of all the naming problems with sdX, but using a deprecated interface doesn't seem like the way to work around it. My 2 cents. Thanks, Alex -- Alex Williamson HP Linux & Open Source Lab -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
