Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: RC3 uname -a: Linux media 2.6.8-2-386 #1 Mon Jan 24 03:58:38 EST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux Date: 20050430 Method: Booted from CD with RC3, Network install Machine: Supermicro 370DLE Processor: 2 x 733MHz P3 Coppermine Memory: 768MB PC133 ECC Root Device: /dev/sda1 Root Size/partition table: nebula:~# fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 30.0 GB, 30020272128 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3649 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 3649 29310561 83 Linux Disk /dev/sda: 18.2 GB, 18210036736 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2213 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 12 96358+ 83 Linux /dev/sda2 13 2213 17679532+ 5 Extended /dev/sda5 13 2213 17679501 8e Linux LVM Disk /dev/sdb: 359.9 GB, 359996719104 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 43767 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 43767 351558396 83 Linux nebula:~# lvscan ACTIVE '/dev/sys/root' [500.00 MB] inherit ACTIVE '/dev/sys/swap' [1.00 GB] inherit ACTIVE '/dev/sys/usr' [2.50 GB] inherit ACTIVE '/dev/sys/var' [2.00 GB] inherit ACTIVE '/dev/sys/home' [2.00 GB] inherit nebula:~# cat /etc/fstab /dev/mapper/sys-swap none swap sw 0 0 /dev/sda1 /boot ext3 defaults,noatime 0 1 /dev/mapper/sys-root / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro,noatime 0 1 /dev/mapper/sys-usr /usr ext3 defaults,noatime 0 2 /dev/mapper/sys-home /home reiserfs defaults,noatime,notail 0 2 /dev/mapper/sys-var /var reiserfs defaults,noatime,notail 0 2 /dev/sdb1 /home/shared xfs defaults,noatime 0 2 /dev/hda1 /home/shared/incoming xfs defaults,noatime 0 2 Output of lspci and lspci -n: nebula:~# lspci 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: ServerWorks CNB20LE Host Bridge (rev 06) 0000:00:00.1 Host bridge: ServerWorks CNB20LE Host Bridge (rev 06) 0000:00:01.0 SCSI storage controller: QLogic Corp. ISP1080 SCSI Host Adapter (rev 01) 0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA 2064W [Millennium] (rev01) 0000:00:03.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83820 10/100/1000 Ethernet Controller 0000:00:06.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 08) 0000:00:0f.0 ISA bridge: ServerWorks OSB4 South Bridge (rev 51) 0000:00:0f.1 IDE interface: ServerWorks OSB4 IDE Controller 0000:00:0f.2 USB Controller: ServerWorks OSB4/CSB5 OHCI USB Controller (rev 04) 0000:01:01.0 RAID bus controller: 3ware Inc 3ware 7000-series ATA-RAID (rev 01) nebula:~# lspci -n 0000:00:00.0 0600: 1166:0009 (rev 06) 0000:00:00.1 0600: 1166:0009 (rev 06) 0000:00:01.0 0100: 1077:1080 (rev 01) 0000:00:02.0 0300: 102b:0519 (rev 01) 0000:00:03.0 0200: 100b:0022 0000:00:06.0 0200: 8086:1229 (rev 08) 0000:00:0f.0 0601: 1166:0200 (rev 51) 0000:00:0f.1 0101: 1166:0211 0000:00:0f.2 0c03: 1166:0220 (rev 04) 0000:01:01.0 0104: 13c1:1001 (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: [E] Reboot: [E] Comments/Problems: This tripped me up before I realized what had happened. If you have your root partition (/) on an LVM Logical Volume, but your /boot partition on a regular partition (as I do above so I can use GRUB), DI assumes my root (/) is also a regular partition and does not include the necessary LVM2 stuff in my initrd image. I can install either GRUB or LILO at this point. The system fails to boot. I verified this by wipping the system and not specifying /dev/sda1 as /boot in partman, but instead allowing it to place /boot on my LVM root (/) partition, /dev/mapper/sys-root. It correctly created the initrd and correctly allowed me to only install LILO. As this combination of partitions, with a regular partition being /boot and a LVM LV being root (/), is a valid combination that leaves the system unbootable, I thought I'd report it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
