Attachment 64704 Details for Bug 144628

Testing installation method

installation method.txt (text/plain), 2.79 KB, created by Ben Phillips on 2006-01-24 11:45:53 UTC

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Created: 2006-01-24 11:45:53 UTC

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>O.K.
>Tried this:
>
>Boot from cd1
>at first installtion screen highlighted "install"
>hit "F3"
>typed "manual=1" at the input line
>hit return.
>
>At linuxxrc "Main Menu", selected "Kernel Modules (Hardware Drivers)"
>selected "Load IDE/RAID/SCSI modules"
>selected CMD64X - Silicon Image Sil 0649 Ultra ATA/100 PCI to ATA host controller
>selected piix - Intel 848 chipset (onboard)
>selected aic7xxx_old - AHA2940
>
>Began installation proceedure.
>denied the automatic installation of hard disk controller modules.
>standard settings except for disk partitioning which was as follows:
>
>/dev/hda1 - 100MB (approx) formatted reiser mounted as /boot
>/dev/hda2 - 18.5GB (approx) Linux RAID
>/dev/hda3 - 1GB (exactly) swap
>/dev/hdb - LG DVD writer
>/dev/hdc - 15GB Linux RAID
>/dev/hdd - 6GB Linux RAID
>/dev/hde - 6GB Linux RAID
>/dev/hdf - 6GB Linux RAID
>/dev/hdg - 6GB Linux RAID
>/dev/hdh - 6GB Linux RAID
>/dev/sda - 9GB Linux RAID
>/dev/sdb - 9GB Linux RAID
>/dev/sdc - 9GB Linux RAID
>/dev/sdd - 6GB Linux RAID
>/dev/sde - 6GB Linux RAID
>/dev/sdf - 8GB Linux RAID
>/dev/sdg - 9GB Linux RAID
>md0 - RAID0 volume formatted reiser mounted /
>
>Installation FAILED with 152 files remaining. This time however the computer did NOT freeze. Instead an error message was
>issued reading:
>
>ERROR(InstTarget:E_RpmDB_subprocess_failed)
>---
>rpmdb:/mnt/var/lib/rpm/Basenames: write failed for page 271
>rpmdb:write: 0x4048dd7c, 4096: Input/output error
>rpmdb:/mnt/var/lib/rpm/Basenames: write failed for page 271
>rpmdb:fsync Input/output error
>rpmdb:/mnt/var/lib/rpm/Basenames: write failed for page 271
>error:db4 error(5) from db->close:Input/output error
>rpmdb:/mnt/var/lib/rpm/Basenames: Read-oly file system
>rpmdb:/mnt/var/lib/rpm/Basenames: unable to flush page 271
>error:db4 error (30) from dbenv->close: Read-only file system
>
>rebooted
>
>changed system bios setting "Power Managment - Suspend" from "S1 (POS)" (power on suspend) to "S3 (STR)" after reading about a possible conflict between scsi drivers and ACPI drivers.
>
>Repeated install as above - FAILED - Same error as before only 145 files remaining. Same directory as before only a different page number and different address. same error codes though, "error(5)" and "error(10)"
>
>rebooted
>
>changed scsi bios setting, set "Write-Back Cache enable" to "NO"
>
>Repeated install as above - FAILED - Same error as before only 145 files remaining. Same directory as before only a different page number and different address. same error codes though, "error(5)" and "error(10)".
>
>rebooted
>
>Repeated install as above exept allowed automatic installation of detected hard disk controller modules - FAILED - Same error as before only 145 files remaining. Same directory as before only a different page number and different address. same error codes though, "error(5)" and "error(10)"

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