Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: sarge-i386-netinst.iso (beta4)
uname -a: Can't (see below)
Date: 3rd/4th June 2004
Method: boot of netinst CD, with incantation:
linux26 debian-installer/framebuffer=false hw-detect/start_pcmcia=false
Machine: Compusys
Processor: Intel Pentium P4 3.0GHz
Memory: 2 x 512M DDR333
Root Device: IDE (120G Maxtor 6Y120L0); /dev/hda
Root Size/partition table:
(Discovered by booting Knoppix 3.4 CD and hand transcribing)
hda1 NTFS 8422.69 XPpro system
hda5 W95 FAT32 8422.69 XPpro data
hda6 ext3 4999.94 /usr
hda7 ext3 3000.07 /var
hda8 ext3 20.13 /tmp
hda9 ext3 97414.16 /home
hda10 swap 512.49 swap
hda3 ext3 Boot 150.19 /
hda1 shrunk down from entire-drive hda1 by Partition Magic v8.
hda2 and hda5 produced by PartMagic; hda2 originally just large enough
to enclose hda5. System booted OK (into XPpro) thereafter.
Other partitions produced by sarge build process, inc expanding hda2.
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
(Discovered by booting Knoppix 3.4 CD and hand transcribing)
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface
(rev 02)
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82865G Integrated Graphics Device
(rev 02)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #4 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller
(rev 02)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB/EB/ER Hub interface to PCI bridge
(rev c2)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) Ultra ATA 100 Storage
Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB (ICH5) Serial ATA 150 Storage
Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97
Audio Controller (rev 02)
0000:01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82562EZ 10/100 Ethernet Controller (rev
01)
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
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: [?]
Reboot: [E]
Comments/Problems:
Existing M$-XPpro successfully restricted to 8GByte hda1, and hda5 created as
detailed above, by employing Partition Magic v8. Install appeared to go well,
apart from the NTFS not being detected as bootable by the Grub install (as
expected, having seen the beta4 errata); made mistake of letting Grub install
into the MBR.
That was last thing last night, after which I let the system shut itself
down. This morning, all I get on boot is:
----
GRUB Loading stage1.5.
GRUB loading, please wait...
(hangs)
----
I'm now stuck with a customer's system which won't boot for itself,
and no readily apparent way to reinstate the XPpro MBR: amongst other
things, M$'98 boot floppies silently hang, so does the XPpro dist CD,
and a DOS-6 floppy boots but doesn't understand the partition types,
but a Knoppix CD can see everything. Annoyingly, I went through the
above procedure on another system as a pre-install test, and
succeeded; differences include the HD being 80G, the processor an
Athlon, and the build boot cmd using "linux" rather than "linux26".
Apologies for not being able to preserve the evidence, but the system
in question is needed, and I'm under pressure of time here. I've had
to resort to asking Compusys to replace the HD, or give me a working
image on the existing HD, under warranty.
Have I been spectacularly stupid :-) ,
MaJoC
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