Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: sarge-i386-netinst.iso dated 2004-06-30
uname -a: tested both 2.4 and 2.6: Linux lie 2.4.26-1-386 #2 Sat May 1 16:31:24 EST 2004 i686 unknown or Linux lie 2.6.5-1-386 #2 Fri Apr 30 20:13:30 EST 2004 i686 unknown Date: around 1200-1400 hours CEST 2004-07-01 Method: made netinst cd and booted from it, good network connection available Machine: same as in #249633 Built from components, ASUS P4C800-E motherboard, has run Debian sid for some months prior to this installation attempt Processor: P4 3.2GHz Memory: 2GiB ECC Root Device: 160GB SATA drive, want to use it via libata Root Size/partition table: as in #249633 but probably unimportant Output of lspci: available in reports for #249633 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: [e] Partition hard drives: [o] with 2.6 Create file systems: [o] with 2.6 Mount partitions: [o] with 2.6 Install base system: [o] with 2.6 Install boot loader: [e] problems with lilo, ok with grub Reboot: [e] grub displays correct list, but cannot boot selected kernel [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: A number of SATA-related bugs were closed based on some bug in libdiscover being corrected a month ago. I patiently waited the 10 days for that version of libdiscover to enter sarge and fall into the daily builds, but had to go away for some time. Now I have tested the current status and apparently this was not the complete solution because some problems persist. In short: If I boot the 2.4 kernel, the SATA drive is recognized as an ide drive. I have not tested to continue the install from there. If I boot the 2.6 kernel, the SATA drive is not recognized automatically. If I modprobe the ata_piix module (which automatically puts in libata, sd_mod is already loaded I think) before going into partitioning the SATA disc is correctly recognized in the partitioning menu as a SCSI device. Continuing the install from there goes fine. Installing lilo failed for some reason I did not understand. Installing grub went ok, and at first boot the list of available boot kernels was showed ok. However, grub complained that the disk was not found when trying to actually load the 2.6 kernel I had installed. I have debug files for three cases: the 2.4 kernel the 2.6 kernel prior to manually loading ata_piix the 2.6 kernel after loading the ata_piix module Here are some parts of these which may be useful. >From the 2.4 hardware-summary: info: /bin/report-hw: discover: i810_rng;;;Intel Corporation;82801BA/CA/DB/EB/ER Hub interface to PCI Bridge; info: /bin/report-hw: discover: i810-tco;;;Intel Corporation;82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Bridge; info: /bin/report-hw: discover: ;;;Unknown;PLEXTOR CD-R PREMIUM;/dev/hdc info: /bin/report-hw: discover: e1000;;;Intel Corporation;82547EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (LOM); info: /bin/report-hw: discover: 3c59x;;;3Com Corporation;3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado]; info: /bin/report-hw: discover: ata_piix;;;Intel Corporation;82801EB (ICH5) Serial ATA 150 Storage Controller; info: /bin/report-hw: discover: ide-scsi;;;Linux;IDE-SCSI emulation layer; It seems libdiscover is correcly identifying the hardware at least. >From the 2.4 syslog: Jul 1 12:03:36 (none) syslog.info klogd: ICH5: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:1f.1 Jul 1 12:03:36 (none) syslog.warn klogd: PCI: Enabling device 00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007) Jul 1 12:03:36 (none) syslog.info klogd: ICH5: chipset revision 2 Jul 1 12:03:36 (none) syslog.info klogd: ICH5: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later Jul 1 12:03:36 (none) syslog.info klogd: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio Jul 1 12:03:36 (none) syslog.info klogd: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio Jul 1 12:03:36 (none) syslog.info klogd: ICH5-SATA: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:1f.2 Jul 1 12:03:36 (none) syslog.info klogd: ICH5-SATA: chipset revision 2 Jul 1 12:03:36 (none) syslog.info klogd: ICH5-SATA: 100% native mode on irq 5 Jul 1 12:03:36 (none) syslog.info klogd: ide2: BM-DMA at 0xef90-0xef97, BIOS settings: hde:DMA, hdf:pio Jul 1 12:03:36 (none) syslog.info klogd: ide3: BM-DMA at 0xef98-0xef9f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio Jul 1 12:03:36 (none) syslog.info klogd: PDC20269: IDE controller at PCI slot 03:0c.0 Jul 1 12:03:36 (none) syslog.info klogd: PDC20269: chipset revision 2 Jul 1 12:03:36 (none) syslog.info klogd: PDC20269: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later Jul 1 12:03:36 (none) syslog.info klogd: PDC20269: ROM enabled at 0xf7ee0000 Jul 1 12:03:36 (none) syslog.info klogd: ide4: BM-DMA at 0xdf60-0xdf67, BIOS settings: hdi:pio, hdj:pio Jul 1 12:03:36 (none) syslog.info klogd: ide5: BM-DMA at 0xdf68-0xdf6f, BIOS settings: hdk:pio, hdl:pio Jul 1 12:03:36 (none) syslog.warn klogd: hdc: PLEXTOR CD-R PREMIUM, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive Jul 1 12:03:36 (none) syslog.warn klogd: hde: ST3160023AS, ATA DISK drive Jul 1 12:03:36 (none) syslog.warn klogd: blk: queue f885bba8, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) Jul 1 12:03:36 (none) syslog.warn klogd: hdi: IC35L060AVVA07-0, ATA DISK drive Jul 1 12:03:36 (none) syslog.warn klogd: blk: queue f885c450, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) Jul 1 12:03:36 (none) syslog.warn klogd: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Jul 1 12:03:36 (none) syslog.warn klogd: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 Jul 1 12:03:36 (none) syslog.warn klogd: ide2 at 0xefe0-0xefe7,0xefae on irq 5 Jul 1 12:03:36 (none) syslog.warn klogd: ide4 at 0xdf98-0xdf9f,0xdf96 on irq 7 Jul 1 12:03:36 (none) syslog.warn klogd: hde: attached ide-disk driver. Jul 1 12:03:36 (none) syslog.info klogd: hde: 312581808 sectors (160042 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=19457/255/63, UDMA(33) Jul 1 12:03:36 (none) syslog.warn klogd: hdi: attached ide-disk driver. Jul 1 12:03:36 (none) syslog.info klogd: hdi: 120103200 sectors (61493 MB) w/1863KiB Cache, CHS=119150/16/63, UDMA(100) Jul 1 12:03:36 (none) syslog.info klogd: Partition check: Jul 1 12:03:36 (none) syslog.info klogd: [PTBL] [781/128/63] p1 p2 Jul 1 12:03:36 (none) syslog.info klogd: p5 > Jul 1 12:03:36 (none) syslog.info klogd: [PTBL] [7476/255/63] p1 Well, what the kernel is expected to do depends on the source and configuration, niether of which I have checked for this particular kernel. >From the 2.6 hardware-summary: info: /bin/report-hw: discover: ata_piix;;;Intel Corporation;82801EB (ICH5) Serial ATA 150 Storage Controller; info: /bin/report-hw: discover: ide-scsi;;;Linux;IDE-SCSI emulation layer; info: /bin/report-hw: discover: usb-uhci;;;Intel Corporation;82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #1; info: /bin/report-hw: discover: usb-uhci;;;Intel Corporation;82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #2; info: /bin/report-hw: discover: usb-uhci;;;Intel Corporation;82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #3; info: /bin/report-hw: discover: ;;;Unknown;IC35L060AVVA07-0;/dev/hde info: /bin/report-hw: discover: ;;;eUSB;Compact Flash;/dev/sda info: /bin/report-hw: discover: ;;;eUSB;SD-MS-SM;/dev/sdb info: /bin/report-hw: discover: ;;;ATA;ST3160023AS;/dev/sdc error: /bin/report-hw: Unable to find lspci. info: /bin/report-hw: lsmod: Module Size Used by Not tainted info: /bin/report-hw: lsmod: ata_piix 7940 3 info: /bin/report-hw: lsmod: libata 36480 1 ata_piix,[permanent] info: /bin/report-hw: lsmod: xfs 513720 0 Note: The lsmod lines with ata_piix related modules are only there after manually modprobing ata_piix, but the ata_piix;;;Intel ... line is there both before and after the module loading. >From the 2.6 syslog (after, well I guess, in fact at the time ata_piix was loaded) Jul 1 14:00:19 (none) syslog.debug klogd: libata version 1.02 loaded. Jul 1 14:00:19 (none) syslog.debug klogd: ata_piix version 1.01 Jul 1 14:00:19 (none) syslog.debug klogd: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64 Jul 1 14:00:19 (none) syslog.info klogd: ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xEFE0 ctl 0xEFAE bmdma 0xEF90 irq 18 Jul 1 14:00:19 (none) syslog.info klogd: ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xEFA0 ctl 0xEFAA bmdma 0xEF98 irq 18 Jul 1 14:00:20 (none) syslog.debug klogd: ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7d01 84:4003 85:3469 86:3c01 87:4003 88:207f Jul 1 14:00:20 (none) syslog.info klogd: ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 312581808 sectors (lba48) Jul 1 14:00:20 (none) syslog.info klogd: ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133 Jul 1 14:00:20 (none) syslog.info klogd: scsi1 : ata_piix Jul 1 14:00:20 (none) syslog.info klogd: ata2: SATA port has no device. disabling. Jul 1 14:00:20 (none) syslog.debug klogd: ata2: thread exiting Jul 1 14:00:20 (none) syslog.info klogd: scsi2 : ata_piix Jul 1 14:00:20 (none) syslog.notice klogd: Jul 1 14:00:20 (none) syslog.notice klogd: Jul 1 14:00:20 (none) syslog.notice klogd: SCSI device sdc: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB) Jul 1 14:00:20 (none) syslog.notice klogd: SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write through Jul 1 14:00:20 (none) syslog.info klogd: Jul 1 14:00:20 (none) syslog.notice klogd: Attached scsi disk sdc at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 I can run more tests but kindly ask for advice on that to do/look for. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
