Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: stable of Aug 30, 2004 (RC1 I believe)
uname -a: Linux cherryberry 2.4.27 #6 SMP Thu Sep 9 22:53:00 EDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
(this is after installing a new kernel)
Date: Aug 30, 2004
Method: How did you install? What did you boot off? If network
install, from where? Proxied?
Network install, booted off floppies.
Machine: Soyo P4I875P Dragon 2
Processor: Pentium 4
Memory: 1GB
Root Device: hdb
Root Size/partition table: Feel free to paste the full partition
table, with notes on which partitions are mounted where.
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82875P Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82875P Processor to AGP Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82875P Processor to PCI to CSA Bridge (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. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Bridge (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)
0000:02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82547EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (LOM)
0000:03:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture
(rev 02)
0000:03:00.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 02)
0000:03:01.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 210888GX [Mach64 GX] (rev
01)
0000:03:03.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-2940U/UW/D / AIC-7881U
0000:03:07.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10)
0000:03:0a.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller
(rev 46)
0000:00:00.0 0600: 8086:2578 (rev 02)
0000:00:01.0 0604: 8086:2579 (rev 02)
0000:00:03.0 0604: 8086:257b (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:24d2 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.1 0c03: 8086:24d4 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.2 0c03: 8086:24d7 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.3 0c03: 8086:24de (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.7 0c03: 8086:24dd (rev 02)
0000:00:1e.0 0604: 8086:244e (rev c2)
0000:00:1f.0 0601: 8086:24d0 (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.2 0101: 8086:24d1 (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.3 0c05: 8086:24d3 (rev 02)
0000:02:01.0 0200: 8086:1019
0000:03:00.0 0400: 109e:036e (rev 02)
0000:03:00.1 0480: 109e:0878 (rev 02)
0000:03:01.0 0300: 1002:4758 (rev 01)
0000:03:03.0 0100: 9004:8178
0000:03:07.0 0401: 13f6:0111 (rev 10)
0000:03:0a.0 0c00: 1106:3044 (rev 46)
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked: [0 ]
Configure network HW: [0 ]
Config network: [0 ]
Detect CD: [ ]
Load installer modules: [0 ]
Detect hard drives: [E ]
Partition hard drives: [E ]
Create file systems: [0 ]
Mount partitions: [0 ]
Install base system: [0 ]
Install boot loader: [0 ]
Reboot: [E ]
Comments/Problems:
The boot got stuck when trying to load a module for my (unused) Adaptec
AHA-2940U/UW/D / AIC-7881U Since rmmod is not on the boot floppy I could
not stop it (don't know if rmmod would have done so anyway).
Feature request: timeout loading modules
Anyway I booted in advanced mode, and disabled that module, and some
others I thought I didn't need. Turned out I did need them since parted
locked up without them. Reboot again, this time only disable the aic
module.
So far so good - them it tried to automatically detect other OS's.
***And this is the meat of the report***
os-prober started walking though my devices - and when it got to a certain
device (representing I believe a smart card reader) it froze, kill -9
would not kill it. Any command that touched that device would hang
forever.
This is not the bug. The bug is why is it walking through random devices?
Please have it walk only though devices in /proc/partitions!
Feature request #2: when installing in advanced mode, don't automatically
find other OS's - ask the user if he wants it first.
I finally had success by editing os-prober and adding exit as the first
command.
Next error: I initially tried using kernel 2.6, but it hung when loading
initrd, don't remember the exact message. I reinstalled using 2.4 which
worked fine.
Install logs and other status info is available in /var/log/debian-installer/.
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