Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: * sarge netinstall iso, downloaded on 25 March 2005 from * http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/alpha/rc3/sarge-alpha-netinst.iso * file size/name: 159467520 Mar 25 19:32 sarge-alpha-netinst.iso uname -a: * Linux muro 2.4.27-2-generic #1 Tue Feb 15 01:56:26 UTC 2005 alpha GNU/Linux Date: Mon 11 April 2005, 20:00 CET Method: * How did you install? From netinst CD * What did you boot off? From netinst CD with aboot >>> boot dka0 * If network install, from where? ftp.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be * Proxied? no Machine: "Digital Personal workstation 500au" Processor: alpha Memory: 256 MByte Root Device: SCSI Root Size/partition table: ? (2 disks of 4.3 GByte) Output of lspci and lspci -n: [lspci -v : I give this detail since PCI seems to cause reboot failure later] 0000:00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 30) 0000:00:04.0 IDE interface: Silicon Image, Inc. (formerly CMD Technology Inc) PCI0646 (rev 01) 0000:00:07.0 Non-VGA unclassified device: Intel Corp. 82378ZB/IB, 82379AB (SIO, SIO.A) PCI to ISA Bridge (rev 43) 0000:00:14.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21052 (rev 02) 0000:01:08.0 SCSI storage controller: QLogic Corp. ISP1020 Fast-wide SCSI (rev 05) 0000:01:0a.0 VGA compatible controller: Texas Instruments TVP4020 [Permedia 2] (rev 01) 0000:00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 30) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 24 I/O ports at 9000 [size=128] Memory at 000000000a540000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128] Expansion ROM at 000000000a500000 [disabled] [size=256K] 0000:00:04.0 IDE interface: Silicon Image, Inc. (formerly CMD Technology Inc) PCI0646 (rev 01) (prog-if 80 [Master]) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32 I/O ports at 9080 [size=16] 0000:00:07.0 Non-VGA unclassified device: Intel Corp. 82378ZB/IB, 82379AB (SIO, SIO.A) PCI to ISA Bridge (rev 43) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 0000:00:14.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21052 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=248 I/O behind bridge: 00008000-00008fff Memory behind bridge: 09000000-0a3fffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 0a400000-0a4fffff 0000:01:08.0 SCSI storage controller: QLogic Corp. ISP1020 Fast-wide SCSI (rev 05) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 36 I/O ports at 8000 [size=256] Memory at 000000000a020000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Expansion ROM at 000000000a400000 [disabled] [size=64K] 0000:01:0a.0 VGA compatible controller: Texas Instruments TVP4020 [Permedia 2] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Elsa AG GLoria Synergy Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 44 Memory at 000000000a000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K] Memory at 0000000009000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M] Memory at 0000000009800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M] Expansion ROM at 000000000a410000 [disabled] [size=64K] [lspci -n] 0000:00:03.0 0200: 1011:0019 (rev 30) 0000:00:04.0 0101: 1095:0646 (rev 01) 0000:00:07.0 0000: 8086:0484 (rev 43) 0000:00:14.0 0604: 1011:0021 (rev 02) 0000:01:08.0 0100: 1077:1020 (rev 05) 0000:01:0a.0 0300: 104c:3d07 (rev 01) 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] ("soft reboot" fails, power cycle succeeds) Comments/Problems: * soft reboot fails. A consecutive power cycle worked fine. (see below for more details). * this installation causes a different ordering of files in ls -al than what I am used to. I can set this to what I am used to with export LC_ALL="C" Has this changed compared to woody install ? After the sarge install, the status is LANG=en_US LANGUAGE=en_US:en_GB:en * my /etc/apt/sources.list points standardly to "testing". What will happen when sarge becomes "stable" ? Would it not be better to use "sarge" in /etc/apt/sources already now ? <Description of the install, in prose, and any thoughts, comments and ideas you had during the initial install.> Installing debian sarge on alpha with Debian-installer rc3 ========================================================== 0. Materials: ------------- * Debian-installer sarge netinstall iso, downloaded on 25 March 2005 from http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/alpha/rc3/sarge-alpha-netinst.iso 159467520 Mar 25 19:32 sarge-alpha-netinst.iso * my machine is a "Digital Personal workstation au500" 1. How to stop the automatic boot --------------------------------- My machine was initially configured to autoboot into linux on the first SCSI driver (dkc0). My machine is using SRM and aboot. Based on the SRM-HOWTO on http://www.alphalinux.org/faq/SRM-HOWTO/srm-about.html I figured out that CTRL-p is used to stop a command in SRM and revert to aboot. 2. launching debian-installer in aboot -------------------------------------- Once inside the aboot prompt, it is straightforward with >>> show dev Shows all devices. In my case, the IDE CDROM was on dka0, so I needed to enter >>> boot dka0 [this CDROM _is_ an IDE CDROM but still 'show dev' does show it as a device on dka0 ... even if the HOWTO mentions DQ as the standard device for (E)IDE disks] And there goes debian-installer :-) For some reason, I did not see the initial screen that asks for expert mode or different kernels and gives help (as I am used to seeing on x86 installs). Did I overlook it or was it not there ? 3. inside debian-installer -------------------------- * all works great (I selected all defaults, US English, standard QWERTY, system detected Ethernet correctly and got through DHCP, ...) * configuring disk partitioning with parted (mainly by hand, works fine, now that I start to understand it) * finalised base install without any problem * disk is ejected and I removed disk 4. reboot --------- * this is a "soft" reboot (I did not power cycle, just took out the CD-ROM and then pressed <enter> as told by the installer). * reboots (aboot, loading initrd, ...) * after a short time, the screen stops and I see [copied by hand, not entirely exact from the screen] freeing pages 749:32767 reserving pages 749:750 Initial ramdisk at:0xff... pci: cia revision 1 (pyxis) On node 0 totalpages: 32767 zone(0): 32767 pages zone(1): 0 pages zone(2): 0 pages Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/sda3 HWRPB cycle freq bogus. Estimated 499771572 Hz Usinfg epoch = 2000 Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 988 BogoMIPS Memory: 250 M/262 M available (1.5 M kernel, 11.3 M reserved, 598k data, 168k init) Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 524288 bytes) Inode ... 16384 (order: 5 ...) Mount ... 412 (order: 0 ...) Buffer ... 8192 (order: 3 ...) Page-cache 32768 (order: 5 ...) POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX pci: passed tb register update test pci: passed sg loopback i/o read test pic: passed pte write cache snoop test [HANGS FOREVER , waited 15 minutes] * keyboard does not respond (Numlock, Caps lock no reaction) * SysReq does not repsond * screen is still visible in VGA mode * nothing else to see ... 5. reboot again (power cycle) ----------------------------- * Ctrl-Alt-Del does not respond * Power cycle the machine * there is no CDROM in the machine * coming up again, a few lines that fly by ... ELSA Gloria Synergy ...Ver. 7.03.04 ea.e9.e8 ... CPU0 booting aboot: load initrd ... Ext3 mounted ... * all seems to work now :-) 6. configuring the base system ------------------------------ "Welcome ..." :-) * GMT : yes * Brussels * add user * apt-source --> kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be mirror 7. tasksel ---------- * selecting * web server * mail server * database server * DNS server * downloading packages * installing packages * finished "Welcome ..." 8. Reboot again --------------- * log in as root [OK] # reboot * works :-) Thanks for this excellent experience. I never thought that reinstalling my alpha would be that simple :-) (it was installed with sid and I don't know of an efficient way to downgrade) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
