NOT ABLE TO INSTALL DEBIAN 4.0r3
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From: Praseen Preman on 21 Jun 2008 11:00 Hi guys, I am an ardent fan of Debian after I saw it running on one of my friends machines. I have been trying to install it for a few months but without success . I am a newbie as far as Debian is concerned. I have worked on Fedora Linux but it seems Debian is harder to tame hence all the more fun. Here are the tech details. My Machine configuration is given below Intel Pentium Dual Core CPU 2.80 GHz 256 MB RAM Seagate 40GB hard disk Intel original Chipset motherboard NVIDIA GeForce 6200 TurboCache(TM) ST380211AS SATA hard disk (seagate) SAMSUNG 52X CD RW+DVD drive I wrote 3 CD iso images of the Debian 4.0r3 into 3 CDs and tried to install on my system, the following are the system logs. ata1: SATA link up 1.5Gbps (Status 113 Scontrol) ata1.00:qc timeout (cmd 0xef) ata1.00:failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x4) hdb:SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F,ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM DRIVE ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq14 hdb:lost interrupt hdb:ATAPI 52 X DVD-ROM........ Uniform CD-ROM driver revision:3.20 Begin: Mounting root file system....... Begin: ....... /scripts/local-top .... Begin: Waiting for root filesystem hdb : lost interrupt ide-cd : cmd 0x3 timed out hdb: lost interrupt Check root = bootargs cat /proc/cmdline or missing modules, devices : cat /proc/modules ls /dev .................... /dev/sda3 does not exist Busy Box comes up then goes down in a while I already have WinXP running on my system, please help me to get linux up. I choose Debian linux in GRUB during startup. Please let me know what the problem, as it has been bugging me for quite a while :-( Regards, Praseen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: David on 21 Jun 2008 11:10 On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Praseen Preman <praseen.preman(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi guys, > I am an ardent fan of Debian after I saw it running on one > of my friends machines. I have been trying to install it for a few > months but without success . I am a newbie as far as Debian is > concerned. I have worked on Fedora Linux but it seems Debian is harder > to tame hence all the more fun. Here are the tech details. > > My Machine configuration is given below > > Intel Pentium Dual Core CPU 2.80 GHz > 256 MB RAM > Seagate 40GB hard disk > Intel original Chipset motherboard > NVIDIA GeForce 6200 TurboCache(TM) > ST380211AS SATA hard disk (seagate) > SAMSUNG 52X CD RW+DVD drive > > I wrote 3 CD iso images of the Debian 4.0r3 into 3 CDs and tried to > install on my system, > the following are the system logs. > > ata1: SATA link up 1.5Gbps (Status 113 Scontrol) > ata1.00:qc timeout (cmd 0xef) > ata1.00:failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x4) > hdb:SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F,ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM DRIVE > ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq14 > hdb:lost interrupt > hdb:ATAPI 52 X DVD-ROM........ > > Uniform CD-ROM driver revision:3.20 > > Begin: Mounting root file system....... > Begin: ....... /scripts/local-top .... > Begin: Waiting for root filesystem > hdb : lost interrupt > ide-cd : cmd 0x3 timed out > hdb: lost interrupt > > Check root = bootargs cat /proc/cmdline or missing modules, devices : > cat /proc/modules > ls /dev .................... /dev/sda3 does not exist > Busy Box comes up then goes down in a while > Sounds like the CD installers are struggling to detect your harddrives. Might be due to your hardware (motherboard) being too new to work correctly with the linux kernel (2.6.18) that ships with Debian Etch. Try using an installer for Debian Testing (Lenny) or Debian Unstable (Sid) instead. David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: Andrew Reid on 21 Jun 2008 14:10 On Saturday 21 June 2008 10:50, Praseen Preman wrote: > Hi guys, > I am an ardent fan of Debian after I saw it running on one > of my friends machines. I have been trying to install it for a few > months but without success . I am a newbie as far as Debian is > concerned. I have worked on Fedora Linux but it seems Debian is harder > to tame hence all the more fun. Here are the tech details. > > My Machine configuration is given below > > Intel Pentium Dual Core CPU 2.80 GHz > 256 MB RAM > Seagate 40GB hard disk > Intel original Chipset motherboard > NVIDIA GeForce 6200 TurboCache(TM) > ST380211AS SATA hard disk (seagate) > SAMSUNG 52X CD RW+DVD drive > > I wrote 3 CD iso images of the Debian 4.0r3 into 3 CDs and tried to > install on my system, > the following are the system logs. > > ata1: SATA link up 1.5Gbps (Status 113 Scontrol) > ata1.00:qc timeout (cmd 0xef) > ata1.00:failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x4) > hdb:SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352F,ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM DRIVE > ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq14 > hdb:lost interrupt > hdb:ATAPI 52 X DVD-ROM........ Looks like the kernel can't see the hard drives. I had a similar issue with a DG33BU motherboard, the G33 chipset apparently has some new bells and whistles. My workaround was to go into the BIOS and set the hard-drive access mode to "ide" (might be called "legacy"), and then boot with the "pci=nommconf" kernel option. This isn't really a Debian-specific problem, it's due to the devices being newer than the kernel support. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / reidac(a)bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: Mark Allums on 21 Jun 2008 19:20 Praseen Preman wrote: > Hi guys, > I am an ardent fan of Debian after I saw it running on one > of my friends machines. I have been trying to install it for a few > months but without success . I am a newbie as far as Debian is > concerned. I have worked on Fedora Linux but it seems Debian is harder > to tame hence all the more fun. Here are the tech details. > > I wrote 3 CD iso images of the Debian 4.0r3 into 3 CDs and tried to > install on my system, > the following are the system logs. As others have written, your chipset/disk i/o hardware is likely not perfectly understood by the kernel drivers, and a workaround may be a more recent kernel or installer, a BIOS tweak, and/or some kernel parameters at boot time. What concerns me is you say you burned 3 CD iso's. Do you actually have the first three CD iso's, or are they actually the DVD iso's? This may be a dumb question, but since Etch is a three DVD set, I wondered. If you tried writing DVD-sized iso's to CDs, a lot of things wouldn't fit, obviously. Etch (Debian 4.0) is a bit dated, now, you might want to get the testing distribution, code-named lenny, instead, which is quite usable. It may be better able to handle your hardware during install. It has a more recent kernel, and more recent versions of everything, else, too. The whole shebang requires five DVDs, or sometimes four DVDs and a CD, but you only need the first DVD to install lenny. Mark Allums -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: Mark Allums on 22 Jun 2008 01:40 Star Liu wrote: > I'm also a newbie, and don't know how to solve your problem, but I have > a little suggestion: > 256 MB RAM -> 2G RAM > use amd64 iso instead of i386 to install, only the 1st iso is needed Something a newbie should be aware of: Top-posting is discouraged. It makes some people cranky. However, Star has a very good suggestion. If you have a recent CPU, you may want AMD64. Don't let the name throw you, it is also for 64-bit Intel x86 CPUs as well. (Don't go for the IA64 distribution; that is for the Itanium, not x86_64. A lot of people make that mistake.) Mark Allums -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
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