no installer?

Fletcher Mattox fletcher at cs.utexas.edu
Sat Apr 16 03:10:57 UTC 2005 

Warning, newbie question.

Ok, I boot a Hoary installation cd with the intention of installing
it for the first time ever (on a disk which is currently partioned
for debian, which I am willing to overwrite).  It loads the OS into
memory, asks me several questions about locale, etc, starts a live
session which then fires up gnome.  That's it.  I've got a nice gnome
desktop, but no installer.  It asked me no questions about the
disk.  The ubuntu device database asks me no qustions about the disk.
Yet the disk works, I can mount the old debian partitions.

Where is the installer?

I'm sure I'm missing something obvious.  Can someone tell me what it
is?  At the risk of too much data, the output of dmesg is appended.

Thanks
Fletcher

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Linux version 2.6.10-5-386 (buildd at terranova) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-8ubuntu2)) #1 Tue Apr 5 12:12:40 UTC 2005
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001ff77000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000001ff77000 - 000000001ff79000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 000000001ff79000 - 0000000020000000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee10000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
511MB LOWMEM available.
found SMP MP-table at 000fe710
On node 0 totalpages: 130935
  DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
  Normal zone: 126839 pages, LIFO batch:16
  HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 DELL                                  ) @ 0x000fd550
ACPI: RSDT (v001 DELL    WS 530  0x00000008 ASL  0x00000061) @ 0x000fd564
ACPI: FADT (v001 DELL    WS 530  0x00000008 ASL  0x00000061) @ 0x000fd598
ACPI: SSDT (v001   DELL    st_ex 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0xfffe6255
ACPI: MADT (v001 DELL    WS 530  0x00000008 ASL  0x00000061) @ 0x000fd60c
ACPI: BOOT (v001 DELL    WS 530  0x00000008 ASL  0x00000061) @ 0x000fd678
ACPI: DSDT (v001   DELL    dt_ex 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Processor #0 15:2 APIC version 20
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x02] enabled)
Processor #2 15:2 APIC version 20
WARNING: NR_CPUS limit of 1 reached.  Processor ignored.
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x03] lapic_id[0x01] disabled)
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x04] lapic_id[0x03] disabled)
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)
ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
Enabling APIC mode:  Flat.  Using 1 I/O APICs
Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: casper/enable=true casper-udeb/snapshot/backing-file=/cdrom/casper/filesystem.cloop vga=normal initrd=/install/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=1048576 root=/dev/rd/0 rw -- BOOT_IMAGE=/install/vmlinuz 
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000)
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 32768 bytes)
Detected 1779.842 MHz processor.
Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 512412k/523740k available (1436k kernel code, 10624k reserved, 754k data, 224k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 3522.56 BogoMIPS (lpj=1761280)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux:  Disabled at boot.
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: After all inits, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000080 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel(R) XEON(TM) CPU 1.80GHz stepping 04
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Checking for popad bug... OK.
ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initrd... not found!
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=-1
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 3061k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
EISA bus registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfbe4e, last bus=4
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050211
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI1._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI2._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI2.PCI3._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 *10 11 12 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *9 10 11 12 15)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 12 devices
PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
** PCI interrupts are no longer routed automatically.  If this
** causes a device to stop working, it is probably because the
** driver failed to call pci_enable_device().  As a temporary
** workaround, the "pci=routeirq" argument restores the old
** behavior.  If this argument makes the device work again,
** please email the output of "lspci" to bjorn.helgaas at hp.com
** so I can fix the driver.
pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0x800-0x85f could not be reserved
pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0xc00-0xc7f has been reserved
pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0x860-0x8ff could not be reserved
Simple Boot Flag at 0x7a set to 0x1
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1113619544.425:0): initialized
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (rgooch at atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x0
Initializing Cryptographic API
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 54 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 1048576K size 1024 blocksize
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa0
EISA: Detected 0 cards.
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536)
NET: Registered protocol family 8
NET: Registered protocol family 20
Restarting tasks...<6> Strange, kswapd0 not stopped
 Strange, kseriod not stopped
 done
ACPI wakeup devices: 
VBTN PCI0 USB0 USB1 PCI1 PCI2 PCI3  KBD 
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Trying to move old root to /initrd ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 224k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 1
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[D] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #1)
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: irq 19, io base 0xff80
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.4[C] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #2)
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.4 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: irq 23, io base 0xff60
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
ohci1394: $Rev: 1223 $ Ben Collins <bcollins at debian.org>
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:04:0c.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[16]  MMIO=[fe1ff000-fe1ff7ff]  Max Packet=[2048]
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023]  GUID[805b06001c72bd00]
usbcore: registered new driver usbkbd
drivers/usb/input/usbkbd.c: :USB HID Boot Protocol keyboard driver
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for Generic
usbcore: registered new driver usbserial_generic
usbcore: registered new driver usbserial
drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial Driver core v2.0
vga16fb: initializing
vga16fb: mapped to 0xc00a0000
fb0: VGA16 VGA frame buffer device
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, using FIFO [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,EPP,ECP]
SCSI subsystem initialized
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
inserting floppy driver for 2.6.10-5-386
elevator: using anticipatory as default io scheduler
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
ICH2: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
ICH2: chipset revision 4
ICH2: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: ST340016A, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: Lite-On LTN486S 48x Max, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 250 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Probing IDE interface ide2...
Probing IDE interface ide3...
Probing IDE interface ide4...
Probing IDE interface ide5...
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 78165360 sectors (40020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes not supported
 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4 < p5 >
hdc: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 120kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
sbp2: $Rev: 1219 $ Ben Collins <bcollins at debian.org>
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:04:0b.0[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
0000:04:0b.0: 3Com PCI 3c905C Tornado at 0xec80. Vers LK1.1.19
NET: Registered protocol family 17
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:04:0b.0[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
cloop: Initializing cloop v2.01
cloop: loaded (max 8 devices)
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
device-mapper: 4.3.0-ioctl (2004-09-30) initialised: dm-devel at redhat.com
cloop: losetup_file: 32753 blocks, 65536 bytes/block, largest block is 65562 bytes.
EXT2-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended
Adding 489972k swap on /dev/hda2.  Priority:-1 extents:1
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse on isa0060/serio1
ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output
Capability LSM initialized
md: md driver 0.90.1 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
input: PC Speaker
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel i860 Chipset.
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xe8000000
cpci_hotplug: CompactPCI Hot Plug Core version: 0.2
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
hw_random hardware driver 1.0.0 loaded
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 50844 usecs
intel8x0: clocking to 41132
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 2 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x7304
usbcore: registered new driver usblp
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
hdd: No disk in drive
hdd: 0kB, 0/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c02f0500(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
ibm_acpi: ec object not found
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
apm: overridden by ACPI.

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