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Fabio Bizzi | 10 Oct 09:33

Trying to install sarge on a C200

Hi everybody,

I've tried for a full week-end to install debian sarge 3.1r0a onto an HP 
C200 but the machine wins! :(

My C200 has 256MB Ram, console on serial and a new HD, a 36GB Quantum 
Atlas 10K II HP branded.

Installation media are sarge CD "NetInst" plus both dvd of sarge 3.1r0a 
loaded on a laptop and published via http.

Installation goes fine (after a couple of tricks included the increased 
ramdisk size), partitioning was made using the default "erase all disk" 
and "all files in one partition" - parted does not complain.
At the end the new system boot correctly and base-config runs fine (also 
if the installed kernel is the smp version and no the single cpu version).

When TaskSel starts I check all the options except the last (manual 
package selection) and download starts correctly and ends without troubles.

In the installation phase after a while I get the following error:

Setting up libxml2 (2.6.16-7) ...
attempt to access beyond end of device
sda5: rw=0, want=3221858888, limit=69352542
attempt to access beyond end of device
sda5: rw=0, want=100992856, limit=69352542
attempt to access beyond end of device
sda5: rw=0, want=3222907464, limit=69352542
attempt to access beyond end of device
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Richard Hirst | 10 Oct 14:40

Re: Trying to install sarge on a C200

On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 09:33:47AM +0200, Fabio Bizzi wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I've tried for a full week-end to install debian sarge 3.1r0a onto an HP 
> C200 but the machine wins! :(
> 
> My C200 has 256MB Ram, console on serial and a new HD, a 36GB Quantum 
> Atlas 10K II HP branded.
> 
> Installation media are sarge CD "NetInst" plus both dvd of sarge 3.1r0a 
> loaded on a laptop and published via http.
> 
> Installation goes fine (after a couple of tricks included the increased 
> ramdisk size), partitioning was made using the default "erase all disk" 
> and "all files in one partition" - parted does not complain.
> At the end the new system boot correctly and base-config runs fine (also 
> if the installed kernel is the smp version and no the single cpu version).
> 
> When TaskSel starts I check all the options except the last (manual 
> package selection) and download starts correctly and ends without troubles.
> 
> In the installation phase after a while I get the following error:
> 
> Setting up libxml2 (2.6.16-7) ...
> attempt to access beyond end of device
> sda5: rw=0, want=3221858888, limit=69352542

I've no idea what's wrong.  Those numbers are in untis of 512 bytes, so
the limit value looks reasonable for a 36G disk.  I have no SCSI disks
that big so if the issue is somehow related to large partitions I
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Fabio Bizzi | 10 Oct 16:15

Re: Trying to install sarge on a C200

Richard Hirst wrote:
> I've no idea what's wrong.  Those numbers are in untis of 512 bytes, so
> the limit value looks reasonable for a 36G disk.  I have no SCSI disks
> that big so if the issue is somehow related to large partitions I
> wouldn't see it.

I supposed it too! :(

> Presuably sda5 is your root filesystem; does the output of "df -h /"
> look sensible, or is the size shown as much bigger than the partition?

The df output is working fine, it shows the correct amount of space 
(free/used/total) this is the thing that drives me crazy, for the kernel 
is all OK!!! :(

> What happens if during install you specify a partition size of, say,
> 8G for / and leave the remaining 28G or so unused?

Next Test... Tonight! (with the permission of my wife and my daughter) ;)

Thank you!

Ciao.

	Fabio.
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Fabio Bizzi | 10 Oct 16:25

Re: Trying to install sarge on a C200

David H. Barr wrote:
> Hey Fabio.
>  - when you hit the partitioning step, does it accurately recognize
> all your drive space?

Yes, only the "fdisk" partition verify reports that a little bit of 
space is unallocated!

> I tried with a 74 GB drive, and the
> partitioning setup thought it was only around 1 GB.

Same problem but with a Sun Ultra-1 ;)

>  I thought you said you dumped it all into one partition?

Yes, the auto-partitioning has created the following:

sda1 - Palo ~32MB
sda2 - Boot - ext2 ~120MB
sda5 - Logic - / - ext3 - ~35.5 GB
sda6 - Logic - swap -  ~ 720 MB

Values are "recalled" from yesterday night... so please take them not 
too seriusly! ;)

>  - when something similar to this happened to me, I tried with a
> smaller drive and it worked fine (have successfully used 4, 9 and 18
> GB models, don't have any larger ones to try)

I have only another drive about 4.2 GB, but it is too small for my needs. :(
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Grant Grundler | 10 Oct 18:15

Re: Trying to install sarge on a C200

On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 09:33:47AM +0200, Fabio Bizzi wrote:
...
> When TaskSel starts I check all the options except the last (manual 
> package selection) and download starts correctly and ends without troubles.
> 
> In the installation phase after a while I get the following error:
> 
> Setting up libxml2 (2.6.16-7) ...
> attempt to access beyond end of device
> sda5: rw=0, want=3221858888, limit=69352542
> attempt to access beyond end of device
...

limit in hex is 0x04223C5E.
Converting "want" values to hex:

	C009AA48
	06050758
	4049AA48
	80499A48
	4021AA48

(omitted repeat values)

This looks like file system corruption.
Any chance you can install/reboot with the 2.6.12 debian kernel
before running tasksel?
Or pull a recent experimental kernel from?
	http://cvs.parisc-linux.org/download/linux-2.6/
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Kyle McMartin | 10 Oct 18:53
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Re: Trying to install sarge on a C200

On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 09:33:47AM +0200, Fabio Bizzi wrote:
> When TaskSel starts I check all the options except the last (manual 
> package selection) and download starts correctly and ends without troubles.
>

Instead, can you select to not install any packages with tasksel during
installation, and wait until you finish the install. Then upgrade your
kernel, and run "tasksel" from the command line.

Also, XFS is known to not always work properly, so ymmv. (It's been
working for me, but I wouldn't trust a kernel from more than a year ago...)

Cheers,
	Kyle
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Thibaut VARENE | 11 Oct 10:47

Re: [parisc-linux] Re: Trying to install sarge on a C200

On 10/10/05, Kyle McMartin <kyle <at> mcmartin.ca> wrote:
> Also, XFS is known to not always work properly, so ymmv. (It's been
> working for me, but I wouldn't trust a kernel from more than a year ago...)

Last time I checked, XFS worked just fine with 2.6.8 kernels and was
broken (especially on 64bit) with >= 2.6.10. I don't know what the
current situation is (as of 2.6.14). Has this been fixed yet?

HTH

--
Thibaut VARENE
http://www.parisc-linux.org/~varenet/
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Christoph Hellwig | 11 Oct 16:31
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Re: [parisc-linux] Re: Trying to install sarge on a C200

On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 10:47:24AM +0200, Thibaut VARENE wrote:
> On 10/10/05, Kyle McMartin <kyle <at> mcmartin.ca> wrote:
> > Also, XFS is known to not always work properly, so ymmv. (It's been
> > working for me, but I wouldn't trust a kernel from more than a year ago...)
> 
> Last time I checked, XFS worked just fine with 2.6.8 kernels and was
> broken (especially on 64bit) with >= 2.6.10. I don't know what the
> current situation is (as of 2.6.14). Has this been fixed yet?

What problems did you see?
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Joel Soete | 11 Oct 16:29
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Re: [parisc-linux] Re: Trying to install sarge on a C200

> On 10/10/05, Kyle McMartin <kyle <at> mcmartin.ca> wrote:
> > Also, XFS is known to not always work properly, so ymmv. (It's been
> > working for me, but I wouldn't trust a kernel from more than a year ago...)
> 
> Last time I checked, XFS worked just fine with 2.6.8 kernels and was
> broken (especially on 64bit) with >= 2.6.10. I don't know what the
> current situation is (as of 2.6.14). Has this been fixed yet?
> 
Sorry I didn't find enough time to re-test xfs :-(
(will try next week with current 2.6.14)

Joel

PS: a small stupid question: iirc palo just known about ext2/ext3 fs?
(so vmlinux-x.y.z could only stand in such fs (i.e. not in a xfs or other fs
type))? 

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Fabio Bizzi | 11 Oct 17:46

Re: Trying to install sarge on a C200

Hi Grant,

Grant Grundler wrote:
[...]
> This looks like file system corruption.
> Any chance you can install/reboot with the 2.6.12 debian kernel
> before running tasksel?
> Or pull a recent experimental kernel from?
> 	http://cvs.parisc-linux.org/download/linux-2.6/

Yesterday night I've tried the following:

1) Started installation form sarge netboot
2) Standard partitioning with a "/" partition fo about 35.5GB
3) Run installation till reboot question

Instead rebooting I've started a shell, unmounted "/target" and started 
a fsck to check the root partition with this output:

8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---

~ # fsck.ext3 /dev/discs/disc0/part5 -f
e2fsck 1.37 (21-Mar-2005)
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Inode 1311742 has illegal block(s).  Clear<y>? yes

Illegal block #12 (3271557120) in inode 1311742.  CLEARED.
Illegal block #13 (637534208) in inode 1311742.  CLEARED.
Illegal block #17 (268500992) in inode 1311742.  CLEARED.
Illegal block #18 (2264924160) in inode 1311742.  CLEARED.
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