Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: Sarge-HPPA-RC3, cdimage.debia.org, 4/1/2005 uname -a: impossible, Kernel 2.6.8-32 Date: 4/1...4/2/2005 Method: CD-ROM: Netinst, Netinst-Businesscard
Machine: HP715/100XC, "Mirage" Processor: PA7100LC Memory: 256MB Root Device: SCSI, sda, sdb Root Size/partition table: Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [] = didn't try it Initial boot worked: [E] Configure network HW: [ ] Config network: [ ] Detect CD: [ ] Load installer modules: [ ] Detect hard drives: [ ] Partition hard drives: [ ] Create file systems: [ ] Mount partitions: [ ] Install base system: [ ] Install boot loader: [ ] Reboot: [ ] Comments/Problems: I'm trying to boot the Debian Sarge RC3 Netinst from the internal CD-ROM of the machine always ends after the RAMDISK is unsuccessfully installed. Then the machine tries to load the network drivers, which it obviously can't, because there is no root-Filesystem. Problems start at: Linux version 2.6.8-32 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc....) .... <all ok> .... HP SDC MLC: Registering the Systems Domain Controller's HIL MLC NET: Registered protocol familiy 2 IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16KBytes TCP: Hash tables configured... RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 HP SDC: Transaction add failed: transaction already queued ? ... <last message repeated 6 time> ... HP SDC: read timeout (949810us)! RAMDISK: incomplete write (-28 != 32768) 16777216 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly Freeing unused kernel memory: 316k freed Setting up filesystem, please wait.... attempt to access beyond end of device ram0: rw=0, want=40650, limit=32768 attempt to access beyond end of device ram0: rw=0, want=40650, limit=32768 ... <last message repeated a zillion times> That's it ! I have downloaded the netinst images 2 times, checked the md5sums, burned 2 CDs (CD-RW and older CD-R) on 2 different machines with different CD-RW drives: No change. The I did put the kernel and initrd from netinst on my working Debion HPPA Woody disks (same machine), and tried to bot the kernel from the disks using PALO. This gave me the same bad results. From checking the debian-hppa mailing list (read-only, I' not subscribed) at least 1 other person had very similiar problems on a totally different HP machine (B2600): Mailing list date: April 1, 2005
