[parisc-linux] Problem installing Debian woody in PA-RISC (HP9000 C100)

[parisc-linux] Problem installing Debian woody in PA-RISC (HP9000 C100)

[Juan Pedro Vilar]

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Hi,

I've been trying to install the latest Debian woody
release(palinux-0.9.3.iso) on a PA-RISC (HP9000 C100) and I can't get
it
to install the base system.
I follow all the installation steps and everything runs smoothly
until I
get to the "Install base system". While installing it, I get the
following warning "Failure trying to run:chroot /target mount" and
then
if I try to swap to another console and issue the same command, I get
a
"segmentation fault" error. When I hit the continue button, then I
get a
"Base Installation error, debootstrap exited with an error (return
value
1)" and he then asks me to install again the base system. We also
tried
to skip this step the second time and everything seem to worked but
the
system was, of course, not usable after that as some packages were
missing and we were getting plenty of segmentation faults.
The machine has no special hardware added and we think we have
followed
all the steps from the installation guide. We have also browsed the
web
looking for this problem and we've found no reference.
Are we missing something? Any hints anybody?
thanks in advance,



- --
Saludos,
 Juan Pedro                         mailto:dijjvb@uib.es
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Re: [parisc-linux] Problem installing Debian woody in PA-RISC (HP9000 C100)

[Grant Grundler]

Juan Pedro Vilar wrote:
> While installing it, I get the
> following warning "Failure trying to run:chroot /target mount" and
> then if I try to swap to another console and issue the same command,
> I get a "segmentation fault" error.

I don't know what the problem here is.
But my gut feeling is we should create a 0.9.4 CD with recent bits
instead of persuing this problem.
Did anyone care to do that in the near future?

thanks,
grant

Re: [parisc-linux] Problem installing Debian woody in PA-RISC (HP9000 C100)

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 09:51:39AM -0600, Grant Grundler wrote:
> Juan Pedro Vilar wrote:
> > While installing it, I get the
> > following warning "Failure trying to run:chroot /target mount" and
> > then if I try to swap to another console and issue the same command,
> > I get a "segmentation fault" error.
> 
> I don't know what the problem here is.
> But my gut feeling is we should create a 0.9.4 CD with recent bits
> instead of persuing this problem.
> Did anyone care to do that in the near future?

Given that Debian 3.0 is due May 1 (see
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2002/debian-devel-announce-200204/msg00004.html)
I think any effort expended on 0.9.4 would be wasted.

-- 
Revolutions do not require corporate support.

RE: [parisc-linux] Problem installing Debian woody in PA-RISC (HP9000 C100)

[Duraid Madina]

> I don't know what the problem here is.
> But my gut feeling is we should create a 0.9.4 CD with recent 
> bits instead of persuing this problem. Did anyone care to do 
> that in the near future?

Any chance 0.9.4 would boot on PA-8700s?

	Duraid

Re: [parisc-linux] Problem installing Debian woody in PA-RISC (HP9000 C100)

[Grant Grundler]

"Duraid Madina" wrote:
> Any chance 0.9.4 would boot on PA-8700s?

No chance. I still don't have access to PA-8700.
I'm working on fixing that but as you might guess,
things are, uhm, complicated at the moment inside HP.

But as several folks noted, there's no point in doing a 0.9.4.
My bad for suggesting it...I didn't realise how close Debian 3.0
is to releasing.

grant

Re: [parisc-linux] Problem installing Debian woody in PA-RISC (HP9000 C100)

[Christian Suder]

Juan Pedro,

does the machine have a wide-differential SCSI harddrive ? Then this 
applies to you :

Filesystem Corruption! Systems with NCR/LSI 53c720 Fast/Wide/Differential 
SCSI interface need to use
"ncr53c8xx=burst:3" palo boot parameter. This avoids overflowing the 
on-chip DMA FIFO which results in file
system corruption on disks behind that interface. Either edit 
/etc/palo.conf or add this manually at boot time. 2.4.16-pa14
(and newer) kernels with a "real" fix are available on our FTP site.

You need to manually give the paramter when booting from the CD. Otherwise 
all sorts of weird things happen - been there, done that ;-)

         Christian














At 03:48 PM 4/23/2002 +0200, Juan Pedro Vilar wrote:
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>Hi,
>
>I've been trying to install the latest Debian woody
>release(palinux-0.9.3.iso) on a PA-RISC (HP9000 C100) and I can't get
>it
>to install the base system.
>I follow all the installation steps and everything runs smoothly
>until I
>get to the "Install base system". While installing it, I get the
>following warning "Failure trying to run:chroot /target mount" and
>then
>if I try to swap to another console and issue the same command, I get
>a
>"segmentation fault" error. When I hit the continue button, then I
>get a
>"Base Installation error, debootstrap exited with an error (return
>value
>1)" and he then asks me to install again the base system. We also
>tried
>to skip this step the second time and everything seem to worked but
>the
>system was, of course, not usable after that as some packages were
>missing and we were getting plenty of segmentation faults.
>The machine has no special hardware added and we think we have
>followed
>all the steps from the installation guide. We have also browsed the
>web
>looking for this problem and we've found no reference.
>Are we missing something? Any hints anybody?
>thanks in advance,
>
>
>
>- --
>Saludos,
>  Juan Pedro                         mailto:dijjvb@uib.es
>
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