Package: installation-reports
Severity: <serious>
Part 1: failure to install from CD (similar to bug #602380)
I've failed to do a fresh netinst of Squeeze from a CD on a new desktop. The
install hangs during "Select and install software". I looked at console 4
while it was hanging and saw 8-line kernel errors like this ad nauseam:
sr 0:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense Key: Medium error [current]
sr 0:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error
sr 0:0:0:0: [sr0] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 00 1e 00 00 02 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 120
Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 30
Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 31
sr 0:0:0:0: [sr0] Unhandled sense code
sr 0:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
So it's failing to read the CD. Other possibly useful info:
The motherboard is an Intel DH55HC, and the CD/DVD drive is a Toshiba
Samsung DVD Writer Model TS-H663 (see lspci output below).
The info file on the CD says
Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.0 "Squeeze" - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1
20110205-14:34
With another desktop and CD/DVD drive, I verified the checksums on the CD
with
md5sum -c md5sum.txt | grep -v 'OK$'
I also made a second copy of the CD and failed to install with that.
On the same hardware, netinst CD installs of 5.0.8 and Wheezy ran to
completion.
During the failed 6.0.0 install, the CD was successfully read quite a bit
before it hung. I found over 30000 files installed on /dev/sda1 (mounted
on /target).
Part 2: failure to install from USB flash drive (similar to bug #593013)
I made an 8-GB flash drive bootable as follows:
cat debian-6.0.0-i386-netinst.iso > /dev/sdc
sync
It booted, and the install got through the initial language and keymap
selection. Then:
No common CD-ROM was detected.
I also failed to install Wheezy this way, although Wheezy from CD ran to
completion. The version of Wheezy was:
Debian GNU/Linux testing "Wheezy" - Official Snapshot i386 NETINST Binary-1
20110215-15:58
This post at debian-user also mentions failure to install Squeeze from USB
flash:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/02/msg01448.html
but this poster succeeded (at least to partitioning):
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/02/msg01562.html
Part 3. output of lspci (running Wheezy from hard drive)
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated
Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series
Chipset HECI Controller (rev 06)
00:16.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PT IDER
Controller (rev 06)
00:16.3 Serial controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset KT
Controller (rev 06)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82578DC Gigabit Network
Connection (rev 06)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2
Enhanced Host Controller (rev 06)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High
Definition Audio (rev 06)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2
Enhanced Host Controller (rev 06)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev a6)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller
(rev 06)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port
SATA IDE Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller
(rev 06)
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 2 port
SATA IDE Controller (rev 06)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82541PI Gigabit Ethernet
Controller (rev 05)
I was unable to find a description of the CD/DVD drive under /proc but may
not have known where to look in Wheezy. I was able to mount /media/cdrom and
read the netinst CD.
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