Package: installation-reports
Boot method: <How did you boot the installer? CD.
Image version: <Full URL to image you downloaded is best> 4.0.r3 netinst
iso.
Date: <Date and time of the install> 17-4-2008 to 22-4-2008.
Machine: Whitebox, Asus P5K Premium Wi-fi motherbaird with Perc 3CDL
raid controller, PCI MX200 graphics card.
Processor: dual core celeron 1.6Ghz
Memory: 3.5Gb
Partitions: fails before this.
Output of lspci -nn and lspci -vnn: fails before this.
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [0]
Detect network card: [0]
Configure network: [0]
Detect CD: [0]
Load installer modules: [E]
Detect hard drives: [E]
Partition hard drives: [ ]
Install base system: [ ]
Clock/timezone setup: [ ]
User/password setup: [ ]
Install tasks: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Overall install: [E]
Comments/Problems:
<Description of the install, in prose, and any thoughts, comments
and ideas you had during the initial install.>
Several problems were encountered...the Asus P5K permium wi-fi
motherboard has 6 internal sata ports (ICH9R) and one ide port with two
e-sata (J-micron). The cd would only go through the detect CD stage if
the sata dvd was on sata port 1, I tried it initially on 4 then 3 and it
didnt work.
I next moved to an IDE DVD and got the same problem. I think what was
happening was the cd detection was off looking for a cdrom on the raid
card or adaptec 3940....at each test it locked up the box at 8% but the
scsi hds lights were flashing, each in turn briefly.
When I went back to the sata dvd drive and port 1 on the ICH9R the cd
detect went fine. However I then encountered a terminal issue with the
Megaraid module so was unable to install etch.
I went back to 3.1 netinst cd and installed without issue on a std 2.4
kernel. I then upgraded to etch via apt-get -y dist-upgrade. This ran
fine until I tried to install a 2.6 kernel, then it locked up during
boot at the megaraid_mbox point while looking for disks....something
about aborting and waiting 300secs....over and over.
So this appears to be a problem with the megaraid module in 2.6? I have
also found that any kernel source 2.4.27+ from kernel org fails at the
megraid module also....The debianised kernel source 2.4.27-4 can be
compiled and boots fine....anything else locks out at the megraid
module. The debian stock kernel images 2.4.27-3-386 and 2.4.27-4-686-smp
boot fine as stock kernels.
I also tried kernel 2.6.8 as a kernel.org source, locks out at the
megraid_mbox module, same issue as a stock debian 2.6.x image.
At the moment I am trying to locate a 2.4.36-3 debianised package source
to see if that is compilable and bootable....
regards
Steven
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