Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: 09.08.2004 (RC1) http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/rc1/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
uname -a: can't boot the system
Date: 10.8.2004 ca. 17:00 GMT+3
Method: Network installation, booted from hard disk. Didn't get past the
initial boot.
Machine: Custom-build PC
Processor: AMD Athlon XP 1600+
Memory: 512MB PC133
Root Device: IDE, Seagate Barracuda I (old one)
Root Size/partition table: Default partitioning, ie. 9.5GB to / and 0.5GB swap
Output of lspci and lspci -n: cannot boot into the system
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: [O] Reboot: [E]
Comments/Problems:
I wanted to try sarge by swapping out my main hard drive and putting in a spare 10GB drive just to see how it's like. Installation was easy (despite my need for manually configure network settings) and base
installation went fine, but...
Rebooting didn't finish. The kernel booted, but after a while I just got my monitor shut off, and trying to switch between consoles didn't help. ctrl-alt-del initiated reboot sequence so I didn't need to do a cold boot, but that was it. The same results were had in the "recovery"-mode. I guess the installation of other packages (besides the base system) should have started (?), but I have no idea what happened after the screen went blank.
I have a Radeon 9600XT graphics adapter, which might be the cause of incompabilities, ie. framebuffer driver crashing the display or XFree86's radeon-driver doing the same. Though does Debian use fb and does the XFree86 even start at that time (first boot after base install)?
The last messages I see when booting are:
1) various USB messages (over one full screen of them)
2) just before monitor shutting itself, something about
"xxxx
net
pci" or something like that... hotplug things? Those are shown only for a fraction of a second, after the USB messages, before the monitor goes off.
I've used SUSE since 5.3 until the new 9.1, and have had in mind to change to Debian "at some point". I'd like to continue evaluating Debian if I just could even start to use it... (must try sid some time in the future and see if it has the same problem with my computer, but I'd like to use a stable series)
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