Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: testing beta2 (got vmlinuz + netboot-initrd on
Feb. 6 approx.)
uname -a: didn't check, but has to be vmlinuz from testing/beta2
Date: Feb. 10
Method: PXE boot, IP by dhcp, network install from DE debian mirror
(ftp2.de.debian.org i think)
Machine: Dual P4 Xeon 2.4GHz server, E7500 board, 82544Ei Gbit ethernet +
82557 FastEthernet net cards
Processor: Dual P4 Xeon 2.4GHz
Memory: 1GBy
Root Device: 2 IDE WD 120GBy drives, root on hda3
Root Size/partition table: 64M boot + 1024M swap + 18G root + 100G home
Output of lspci: sorry... could not finish the install... didn't try to
get that
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD: [ ]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Create file systems: [O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [E]
Install boot loader: [E]
Reboot: [E]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
-Preliminary comment: please write down the right boot parameters in the
INSTALLATION_HOWTO!! :-)
devfs=mount console=tty0 ramdisk_size=8192 root=/dev/ram0
- Once i got the boot params right, Installation went on very nicely
(congrats everybody, the installer looks really promissing)
up to the point of setting up the boot loader:
it kept me asking again and again the same (in which disk/partition to
install the boor record). Therefore went to the shell prompt and saw that
there was nothing inside /target/boot, aparently no kernel had been
installed. Then after insisting got out of the lilo screen and into the
main menu, tried with grub: this worked but grub menu was empty, no kernel
listed. (then i tried with the daily builds of the unstable d-i, will add
thar report below)
- Extra comment: i guess the d-i uses a frambuffer... the left column and
several of the bottom lines were falling out of the screen. Also the fonts
do not get rendered very nicely (blurred in certain columns of the
screen). Would it be possible to use a standard text mode console by
default? Or is there any fb mode that you can be sure it will be rendered
right (not cut, nice fonts) with all the video adapters?
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APPENDIX: test of the daily builds of d-i /unstable
Given the above problem, i downloaded and tried both the 9th and 10th of
Feb. {vmlinuz,netboot-initrd.gz} files. The problem here was different:
i was kicked out into the main menu after "detecting hardware" because
there was no HD being detected, kernel was saying:
ignoring BAR0-3 of ide Controller ****
so there were no ide disks/partitions available for installation....
Something wrong with the daily buit kernel in comparison to the beta2 one?
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