A Tale Of Two Systems, a.k.a, 20050325 Daily CD Install Report

[Matt Galvin]

It was the best of installs, it was the worst of installs, it was a
flawless install, it was an unbootable system...

Hoary 20050325 installed flawlessly on my home machine, everything is
working as expected. I even have a bunch of stuff from the universe
installed so I can do things like play DVD's with totem(xine backends,
gstreamer is unusable for this) I can play mp3's in Rhythmbox and
pretty much everything else too. I have the whole LAMP team running
and Java(SUN's 1.5.0_02) Eclipse 3.1, tomcat and more and I a very
happy with how well it is all working.

On another brand-x machine the actuall installation process seemed to
go just fine except that there seems to be an issue with this machines
SATA controller/Disk which causes the system to be unbootable. First
off I have not seen any linux distro boot off this machines SATA drive
so i (a while ago) install an IDE drive in it and boot from the IDE
and use the SATA as /home (this works fine with FC3) so...

* I install Ubuntu, went ok
    ** hda1 /
    ** hda2 swap
    ** sda1 /home

* I rebooted

* The system started to come up then when it tried to mount the SATA
/home it stopped dead in its tracks and that was that. It gave a few
errors about failing to mount the drive(i dont' have the actuall
errors, sorry). Oh well.

Here is the relevant lshal output (from within FC3)

--- snip ---

udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/block_e38c6cb6-7481-46de-b64e-f40cf0849f48'
  volume.mount_point = '/home'  (string)
  volume.policy.desired_mount_point = 'scsidisk'  (string)
  volume.policy.mount_filesystem = 'ext3'  (string)
  volume.policy.should_mount = true  (bool)
  info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/block_e38c6cb6-7481-46de-b64e-f40cf0849f48'
 (string)
  volume.partition.msdos_part_table_type = 131  (0x83)  (int)
  volume.size = 80023716864  (0x12a1c90400)  (uint64)
  volume.block_size = 512  (0x200)  (int)
  volume.num_blocks = 156296322  (0x950e482)  (int)
  volume.partition.number = 1  (0x1)  (int)
  volume.is_partition = true  (bool)
  volume.is_mounted = true  (bool)
  volume.is_disc = false  (bool)
  volume.uuid = 'e38c6cb6-7481-46de-b64e-f40cf0849f48'  (string)
  volume.label = '/home1'  (string)
  volume.fsversion = ''  (string)
  volume.fsusage = 'filesystem'  (string)
  volume.fstype = 'ext3'  (string)
  info.product = '/home1'  (string)
  block.storage_device =
'/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/block_ST380013AS-5JV9FJRX'  (string)
  block.minor = 1  (0x1)  (int)
  block.major = 8  (0x8)  (int)
  info.capabilities = 'block volume'  (string)
  info.category = 'volume'  (string)
  info.parent =
'/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/block_ST380013AS-5JV9FJRX'  (string)
  block.device = '/dev/sda1'  (string)
  block.is_volume = true  (bool)
  block.have_scanned = false  (bool)
  block.no_partitions = false  (bool)
  linux.sysfs_path_device = '/sys/block/sda/sda1'  (string)
  linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/block/sda/sda1'  (string)
  info.bus = 'block'  (string)

udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/block_ST380013AS-5JV9FJRX'
  storage.policy.should_mount = false  (bool)
  info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/block_ST380013AS-5JV9FJRX'  (string)
  storage.requires_eject = false  (bool)
  storage.hotpluggable = false  (bool)
  storage.removable = false  (bool)
  storage.revision = '3.18'  (string)
  storage.serial = '5JV9FJRX'  (string)
  info.product = 'ST380013AS'  (string)
  info.vendor = 'ATA'  (string)
  storage.drive_type = 'disk'  (string)
  block.storage_device =
'/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/block_ST380013AS-5JV9FJRX'  (string)
  storage.physical_device =
'/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/scsi_0_0_0_0'  (string)
  storage.vendor = 'ATA'  (string)
  storage.model = 'ST380013AS'  (string)
  storage.automount_enabled_hint = true  (bool)
  storage.no_partitions_hint = false  (bool)
  storage.media_check_enabled = true  (bool)
  storage.bus = 'scsi'  (string)
  block.minor = 0  (0x0)  (int)
  block.major = 8  (0x8)  (int)
  info.capabilities = 'block storage'  (string)
  info.category = 'storage'  (string)
  info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/scsi_0_0_0_0'  (string)
  block.device = '/dev/sda'  (string)
  block.is_volume = false  (bool)
  block.have_scanned = false  (bool)
  block.no_partitions = false  (bool)
  linux.sysfs_path_device = '/sys/block/sda'  (string)
  linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/block/sda'  (string)
  info.bus = 'block'  (string)

udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/scsi_0_0_0_0'
  info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/scsi_0_0_0_0'  (string)
  info.product = 'SCSI Device'  (string)
  scsi.lun = 0  (0x0)  (int)
  scsi.target = 0  (0x0)  (int)
  scsi.bus = 0  (0x0)  (int)
  scsi.host = 0  (0x0)  (int)
  info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/scsi_host_0'  (string)
  scsi.linux.sysfs_path =
'/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0' 
(string)
  linux.sysfs_path_device =
'/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0' 
(string)
  linux.sysfs_path =
'/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0' 
(string)
  info.bus = 'scsi'  (string)

udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/scsi_host_0'
  info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/scsi_host_0'  (string)
  info.capabilities = 'scsi_host'  (string)
  info.product = 'SCSI Host Interface'  (string)
  scsi_host.host = 0  (0x0)  (int)
  info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_24d1'  (string)
  linux.sysfs_path_device =
'/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0'  (string)
  linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/class/scsi_host/host0'  (string)
  info.bus = 'scsi_host'  (string)

udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/scsi_host_1'
  info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/scsi_host_1'  (string)
  info.capabilities = 'scsi_host'  (string)
  info.product = 'SCSI Host Interface'  (string)
  scsi_host.host = 1  (0x1)  (int)
  info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_24d1'  (string)
  linux.sysfs_path_device =
'/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host1'  (string)
  linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/class/scsi_host/host1'  (string)
  info.bus = 'scsi_host'  (string)

--- snip ---

Hope this helps,

Thanks,

Matt