Bug#388501: Installation Report

[Michael S. Peek]

Package: installation-reports

Boot method: CD

Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-businesscard.iso Downloaded on 9/20/06

Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:25:27 -0400


Processor: Xeon 2.8GHz 800 FSB (1 CPU)
Memory: 1GB
Partitions:
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 38913.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
  (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

  Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1       38535   309532356   83  Linux
/dev/sda2           38536       38913     3036285    5  Extended



Output of lspci and lspci -n:

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:





The last visible kernel messages are:
Begin: Mounting root file system... ...
Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ...
ide0: I/O resource 0x1F0-0x1F7 not free.
ide0: ports already in use, skipping probe
ide1: I/O resource 0x170-0x177 not free.
ide1: ports already in use, skipping probe
Done.
Begin: Waiting for root filesystem... ...
Done.
      Check root= bootarg cat /proc/cmdline
      or missing modules, devices: cat /proc/modules ls /dev
ALERT! /dev/sda1 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!

Attached is the syslog file from installation, if that helps.

Machine: Custom machine w/ SuperMicro X6DHE-XG2 (Intel E7520 chipset, ICHR5 SATA controller) /dev/sda5 38536 38913 3036253+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris Installation works fine, but unable to mount the root filesystem on reboot. Checking /proc/cmdline shows "root=/dev/sda1 ro", which is correct, but no /dev/sda1 exists (/dev/sda exists though). I'm not savvy enough to know what to do next. I suspect that a required module is not being installed correctly into the initrd image...?

syslog.bz2
Description: application/bzip