Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD Image version: Debian Etch daily build Mar 24 2006, Debian Stable Mar 24 2006, business card ISOs from debian.org Date: Mar 24, 2006, multiple attempts. Machine: generic desktop, P4S800 mobo, AOPEN Geforce2 MX200 32MB video adapter, AWARD plug & play BIOS Rev. 1004 extension v1.0A Processor: Celeron 2GHz Memory: 512MB
Partitions: fdisk -l /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 729 5855661 83 Linux /dev/hda2 730 6079 42973875 5 Extended /dev/hda5 730 851 979933+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hda6 852 1580 5855661 83 Linux /dev/hda7 * 1581 2188 4883728+ 83 Linux /dev/hda8 2189 2310 979933+ 83 Linux /dev/hda9 2311 5957 29294496 83 Linux /dev/hda10 5958 6079 979933+ 83 Linux Output of lspci and lspci -n: lspci 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS 645xx (rev 50) 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0003 0000:00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS963 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 25) 0000:00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0016 0000:00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] 0000:00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Sound Controller (rev a0) 0000:00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f) 0000:00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f) 0000:00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller0000:00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 91) 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11DDR [GeForce2 MX 100 DDR/200 DDR] (rev b2) lspci -n 0000:00:00.0 0600: 1039:0648 (rev 50) 0000:00:01.0 0604: 1039:0003 0000:00:02.0 0601: 1039:0963 (rev 25) 0000:00:02.1 0c05: 1039:0016 0000:00:02.5 0101: 1039:5513 0000:00:02.7 0401: 1039:7012 (rev a0) 0000:00:03.0 0c03: 1039:7001 (rev 0f) 0000:00:03.1 0c03: 1039:7001 (rev 0f) 0000:00:03.3 0c03: 1039:7002 0000:00:04.0 0200: 1039:0900 (rev 91) 0000:01:00.0 0300: 10de:0111 (rev b2) 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] Package: installation-reports Comments/Problems: The installation went perfectly until after the reboot. At the moment when grub should have appeared, the screen instead went blank. After the 5-second timeout the hard drive light came on, indicating that the system was booting but without video display. I now have a "working" Ubuntu system which is fine once X begins but I still can't see anything during the console mode portion of boot-up. When I boot from any Debian install disc using `linux vga=ask` and type `scan`, the screen appears black for the duration of the scan, then comes back at the end of the scan. This appears to be a comparable problem to one discussed in Red Hat: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=121819 I've also had a couple threads on debian-user about this: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/03/msg02594.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/03/msg02619.html I'm quite willing to help by trying things or providing more info, just let me know. I have a couple suggestions from someone on Debian-user which I haven't tried yet, namely passing acpi=on or debian-installer/framebuffer=false at the installer boot prompt.
