Hi all, I would like to report a successfull installation of debian (throught a netinst cd image) on a HP9000/785 (visualize c3000 workstation)
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: 2004-05-16 cd netinst image uname -a: Linux thebeast 2.4.26-64-smp #1 SMP Thu Apr 29 04:59:03 UTC 2004 parisc64 GNU/Linux Date: 2004-05-16 Method: cd netinst image Machine: HP9000/785 visualize c3000 Processor: processor : 0 cpu family : PA-RISC 2.0 cpu : PA8500 (PCX-W) cpu MHz : 400.000000 model : 9000/785/C3000 model name : AllegroHigh W hversion : 0x00005bb0 sversion : 0x00000481 I-cache : 512 KB D-cache : 1024 KB (WB) ITLB entries : 160 DTLB entries : 160 - shared with ITLB bogomips : 797.90 software id : 2006179580 Memory: total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 518520832 121638912 396881920 0 8441856 81375232 Swap: 99000320 0 99000320 MemTotal: 506368 kB MemFree: 387580 kB MemShared: 0 kB Buffers: 8244 kB Cached: 79468 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 64252 kB Inactive: 25756 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 506368 kB LowFree: 387580 kB SwapTotal: 96680 kB SwapFree: 96680 kB Root Device: /dev/sdb scsi0 : sym53c8xx-1.7.3c-20010512 scsi1 : sym53c8xx-1.7.3c-20010512 blk: queue 000000002fc6c040, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) sym53c896-1-<5,*>: FAST-20 WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s (50.0 ns, offset 15) Vendor: IBM Model: DCHS04Y Rev: 6363 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 blk: queue 000000002fbede40, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) sym53c896-1-<6,*>: FAST-20 WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s (50.0 ns, offset 15) Vendor: COMPAQ Model: ST32171WC Rev: 0684 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 blk: queue 000000002fbedc40, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) Attached scsi disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 5, lun 0 Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi1, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 SCSI device sda: 8813870 512-byte hdwr sectors (4513 MB) Partition check: /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target5/lun0: unknown partition table sym53c896-1-<6,*>: FAST-20 WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s (50.0 ns, offset 15) SCSI device sdb: 4110000 512-byte hdwr sectors (2104 MB) /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target6/lun0: p1 p2 p3 < p5 p6 p7 > Root Size/partition table: df -k: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb5 634472 156890 443732 27% / tmpfs 253184 0 253184 0% /dev/shm /dev/sdb2 118964 7558 105059 7% /boot /dev/sdb6 1047946 8245 983787 1% /home Output of lspci: bash: lspci: command not found Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked: [O] Configure network HW: [O] Config network: [O] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [O] Create file systems: [O] Mount partitions: [O] Install base system: [O] Install boot loader: [E] Reboot: [E] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: When I first installed the system everything seemed to work fine, but when I rebooted it I found a problem related to the command string to launch PALO (PA LOader). If you consider the partition 2 as /boot, the default string is 2/boot/vmlinux instead of 2/vmlinux just because 2=/boot. After a few tries we, the pa-team guys and I, figured out the problem and now everything seems to be fine. Thank you all for the great work Regards SteX -- ;-P ;-P ;-P http://www.openlabs.it/~stex GPG key: Stefano Melchior (stex) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Key fingerprint = F6A3 6071 -- Keyserver http://pgp.mit.edu Registered user #324592 on the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]