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Debian-installer-version: RC1 business card
uname -a: 2.6.7-1-686
Date: 20040817
Method:
Boot on the business card CD, install using a local mirror.

Machine: HP Pavillion ze4200
Processor: Intel Celeron
Memory: 256 MB (- 64 MB VRAM)
Root Device: IDE
Root Size/partition table:
hda1 9.2 GB Windows XP
hda5 500 MB Swap
hda6 10 GB /

Output of lspci:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS200/RS200M AGP Bridge [IGP 340M] (rev 02)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc PCI Bridge [IGP 340M] 0000:00:02.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03) 0000:00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 02)
0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV] 0000:00:08.0 Modem: ALi Corporation M5457 AC'97 Modem Controller
0000:00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6912 Cardbus Controller 0000:00:0c.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB21 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
0000:00:10.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c4)
0000:00:11.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU] 0000:00:12.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller
0000:01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon IGP 340M


Base System Installation Checklist:

Initial boot worked: [E/O]
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [E/O]
Create file systems: [O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Install boot loader: [O]
Reboot: [O]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Comments/Problems:

Booting on the default 2.4 kernel led to a non-working keyboard; this
also happened with RedHat and other installers about a year
ago. Booting with the linux26 kernel worked like a charm.

Partitionning went a bit funny. The disk layout was :
hda1 9.2 GB Windows XP
>>> FREE SPACE 0.04 MB <<<
hda2 10 GB /

[that thing was generated by a previous Mandrake installation]

It seems this layout managed to confuse partman; it wouldn't list the
existing partitions (only the entire disk was available in the menu).

After deleting hda2 using cfdisk on another terminal, everything
worked fine.

JB.

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On Wednesday 18 August 2004 13:54, Julien BLACHE wrote:

Partitionning went a bit funny. The disk layout was :
hda1 9.2 GB Windows XP
>>> FREE SPACE 0.04 MB <<<
hda2 10 GB /

It seems this layout managed to confuse partman; it wouldn't list the existing partitions (only the entire disk was available in the menu).

Could you please send the logfile from partman?

It should be in /var/log/debian-installer/partman.

TIA,
Frans Pop


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Julien BLACHE wrote:

Partitionning went a bit funny. The disk layout was :
hda1 9.2 GB Windows XP
>>> FREE SPACE 0.04 MB <<<
hda2 10 GB /

[that thing was generated by a previous Mandrake installation]

It seems this layout managed to confuse partman; it wouldn't list the existing partitions (only the entire disk was available in the menu).

After deleting hda2 using cfdisk on another terminal, everything
worked fine.

It would be best if you could send us an exact dump of your old
partition table, but at least a copy of
/var/log/debian-installer/partman might be helpful in doing something
about this.

--
see shy jo

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Joey Hess <[email protected]> wrote:

It would be best if you could send us an exact dump of your old
partition table, but at least a copy of

That's not possible anymore, unfortunately. I think it's the layout
with a very small free space between two partitions that triggered the
bug, but time will tell.

/var/log/debian-installer/partman might be helpful in doing something
about this.

I sent it a couple of minutes ago :)

JB.

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