Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: 2005-01-22 sarge-i386-netinst.iso RC2 from
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/rc2/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
uname -a: not possible
Date: 2005-01-27
Method: booted from network installer CD (on CDRW media)
Machine: home-built, ABIT NF7-S V2 motherboard (not overclocked)
Processor: AMD Athlon XP 2600 (Barton core)
Memory: 512Mb Corsair (DDR)
Root Device: primary master IDE /dev/hda7 - intended, anyway :-)
Root Size/partition table:
Output from fdisk on VC2:
# fdisk -l /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
Disk /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc: 41.1 GB, 41110142976 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4998 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End
Blocks Id System
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 * 1 1275
10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 1276 4717
27647865 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 1276 1536
2096451 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 1537 2058
4192933+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 2059 2580
4192933+ 6 FAT16
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part8 2581 2645
522081 6 FAT16
*All* partitions created using Win2K Disk Manager.
Output of lspci and lspci -n: not possible
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: [ ]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [ ]
Create file systems: [O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Install boot loader: [E]
Reboot: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
Installation proceeded well and without incident until it's time to
install the bootloader. I requested installation of Grub on the root
partition (not the MBR), and this failed with the message (on VC3) :
"file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly"
I may be misunderstanding the situation, but digging about with ls on
VC2 revealed that there is indeed no such file - in fact there is no
/boot directory at all - but there _is_ one on /target - i.e. the file
/target/boot/grub/stage1
*does* exist. Is the installer simply passing the wrong
--root-directory parameter to grub-install ? That would be hard to
believe, because surely a gazillion other people would have noticed
already ...
Two other possible factors :
(1) I notice that the above partition table print from fdisk shows my
two Linux partitions (7 & 8) have type=FAT16 (type 06) despite their
just having been formatted by the installer as ext3 and swap
respectively ... Huh !?
(2) I created all the partitions using Win2K Disk Manager, at a time
when I had the BIOS hard drive access mode set to CHS. This didn't
seem to faze Win2K at all (it ignores the BIOS ?), but I've since
changed the setting to LBA, though this hasn't helped here. Might it
have caused screwy partition table values ?
Also: FWIW, I can't install LILO either - it hangs at 75% on VC1, with
no useful diagnostics on VC3 (the last two messages on VC4 are about
something called os-prober probing my root & swap partitions, 7 and
8).
This brings my testing of the Sarge installer to a shuddering halt ...
cluesticks gratefully received. I'll keep this machine available for
any experiments you may want me to try (I have another Woody machine
to carry on using).
Here's the installer log for the Grub installation failure :
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Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
e2fsprogs is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
Suggested packages:
grub-doc grubconf
The following NEW packages will be installed:
grub
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/350kB of archives.
After unpacking 750kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously deselected package grub.
(Reading database ... 9461 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking grub (from .../grub_0.95+cvs20040624-10_i386.deb) ...
Setting up grub (0.95+cvs20040624-10) ...
Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly.
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And here's an ls -l of / (for the installer) and /target (etc.) :
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# ls -l /
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1500 Jan 27 22:41 bin
dr-xr-xr-x 10 root root 2048 Nov 21 22:10 cdrom
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 dev
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 460 Jan 27 22:43 etc
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 40 Jan 1 1970 floppy
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 40 Jan 1 1970 initrd
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 980 Jan 27 22:41 lib
dr-xr-xr-x 41 root root 0 Jan 27 22:35 proc
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1780 Jan 27 22:41 sbin
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 40 Jan 1 1970 sys
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Jan 28 00:44 target
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 60 Jan 27 22:53 tmp
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 164616 Jan 1 1970 unifont.bgf
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 120 Oct 6 18:32 usr
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 160 Jan 27 22:43 var
# ls -l /target
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 27 22:53 bin
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 27 22:55 boot
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jan 27 22:51 cdrom ->
media/cdrom
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 24576 Jan 27 22:53 dev
drwxr-xr-x 43 root root 4096 Jan 27 22:53 etc
drwxrwsr-x 2 root 50 4096 Jul 26 2004 home
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 27 22:52 initrd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Jan 27 22:53 initrd.img ->
boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-1-386
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Jan 27 22:53 lib
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 49152 Jan 27 22:51 lost+found
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 922 Jan 28 00:45 ls.njb
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jan 27 22:51 media
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 26 2004 mnt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 27 22:52 opt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 26 2004 proc
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 27 22:52 root
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 27 22:53 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 27 22:52 srv
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 13 19:40 sys
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Jan 27 22:55 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Jan 27 22:52 usr
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Jan 27 22:52 var
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Jan 27 22:53 vmlinuz ->
boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-1-386
# ls -l /target/boot
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 539139 Sep 3 06:43
System.map-2.4.27-1-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44680 Sep 3 06:24
config-2.4.27-1-386
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 27 22:55 grub
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3878912 Jan 27 22:53
initrd.img-2.4.27-1-386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 812691 Sep 3 06:43
vmlinuz-2.4.27-1-386
# ls -l /target/boot/grub
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15 Jan 27 22:55 device.map
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7776 Jan 27 22:55 e2fs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8320 Jan 27 22:55 jfs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7008 Jan 27 22:55 minix_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9216 Jan 27 22:55
reiserfs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Jan 27 22:55 stage1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 108136 Jan 27 22:55 stage2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9256 Jan 27 22:55 xfs_stage1_5
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