Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: Daily build downloaded 10/9 ~12:30 from http://p.d.o/~joshk/d-i/images/daily/sparc32/netboot/boot.img uname -a: Linux spark 2.4.26-sparc32 #1 Sun Jun 20 02:18:47 PDT 2004 sparc GNU/Linux Date: 2004-09-10 Method: Net boot with rarpd and tftpd. I installed from ftp.fi.debian.org without a proxy. Machine: Axil 320 (SPARCstation 10 or 20 clone) Processor: "ROSS HyperSparc RT625 or RT626" Memory: 64 MB Root Device: SCSI, SEAGATE ST34520N Root Size/partition table: /dev/sda1 Linux native ext2 /boot /dev/sda2 Linux native ext3 / /dev/sda3 Whole disk (extended?) /dev/sda4 Linux swap Output of lspci and lspci -n: No PCI stuff available. Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot worked: [E] Configure network HW: [O] Config network: [E] Detect CD: [ ] 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: [O] Comments/Problems: I first tried doing a netinstall with floppies but it always failed when loading the root disk. It said "cramfs: bad magic" and that it couldn't mount rootfs. I tried several times with different floppies. Net boot worked without a hitch. After getting an IP address from my DHCP-server netcfg looped through the IP retrieval over and over. The syslog revealed that it couldn't find mii-diag. I downloaded it and made it available but syslog still said that the network was unavailable. Strange, it just managed to get an IP. I think it is because my NIC hasn't got MII. I ended up replacing the netcfg binary with a script doing "return 0" and it worked fine. I choose to load an extra installer module (ssh-client) but the ssh-client didn't work because of some missing libraries (libgcrypt and libutil). It worked when I put those libs in /lib. It would be nice if the partitioner could warn that /boot has to be in the first 1 GB of the disk for silo to work. I selected to install the 2.4.27-1-sparc32-smp kernel but it failed to boot. The problem looks very much like the one I had with the floppies, it says "cramfs: bad magic" and that it can't mount rootfs. Are there some issues with initrd or something? After going back to the kernel that d-i uses (2.4.26-sparc32) it all worked well. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
