feisty-alternate-i386 for herd-2 cannot install kernel from CDROM

Merging the bugs since you are using the CD as netinstall repository.

Fabio

I am unable to reproduce this bug here.

Check the md5sum of the image you downloaded:

75add9fe4b88b44e258c35a1abc2ebbc feisty-alternate-i386.iso

Make sure that the image has been burned correctly and run the cdcheck locally.

Are you installing an i386 iso on amd64?

Fabio

Jan 13 16:47:50 base-installer: info: kernel linux-image-generic not usable on 386
Jan 13 16:47:50 base-installer: info: kernel linux-image-2.6.20-5-generic not usable on 386

It thinks it's a 386 or 486 system, which seems unlikely since it's also SMP. Could I please have a copy of /proc/cpuinfo from this machine?

I have the same issue, here is the cpuinfo

processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 14
model name : Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2300 @ 1.66GHz
stepping : 8
cpu MHz : 1000.000
cache size : 2048 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 1
core id : 255
cpu cores : 1
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe constant_tsc pni monitor est tm2 xtpr
bogomips : 3329.08

processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 14
model name : Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2300 @ 1.66GHz
stepping : 8
cpu MHz : 1000.000
cache size : 2048 KB
physical id : 1
siblings : 1
core id : 255
cpu cores : 1
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe constant_tsc pni monitor est tm2 xtpr
bogomips : 3325.13

Here is the same issue, on a different processor, hope this helps.

I just tried an install with an iso downloaded by torrent this morning. Same problem with no kernel found. In Console F4, I saw endless probing and not found. I'm not sure what it was looking for, but it was Intel ISA PCIC probe: then numbers. I watched up to 1000.... and it always said not found. Many times it just had 'kernel: not found', but often it was the 'Intel ISA...' bit followed by 'not found'.

Also, I noted that my hard drive was found as scsi when it is ide.

here is the same problem with intel pentium 4 processor

> Are you installing an i386 iso on amd64?
The problem is exactly the same on amd64

Sorry, i spoke too soon in my last reply.

> Are you installing an i386 iso on amd64?
no. The i386iso fails on pentium D, P4 and Opteron.
The Amd64 iso installs succesfully on the Opteron.

Also, The i386 cdrom check passes and the i386iso md5 checksum passes .

Hope this helps.

I'll investigate further in the morning when I'm properly awake, but I reckon that base-installer/kernel/i386.sh doesn't properly handle multiprocessor machines.

I'm seeing the same problem, I too have a i386 SMP machine.

also seeing Intel ISA PCIC probe: not found

CPU's are Athlon MP's
mobo is: Asus K7D Master

if that helps.

install nosmp noapic doesn't work either.

The PCMCIA thing ("not found", hang while detecting hardware) is a different bug; boot with hw-detect/start_pcmcia=false to work around it.

I've committed a fix upstream.

The reason this broke all of a sudden is that between Herd 1 and Herd 2 we switched the installer from booting with the -386 kernel (which isn't SMP-capable) to -generic (which is), so suddenly the second core appeared and base-installer didn't know how to deal with it.

se-installer (1.70ubuntu2) feisty; urgency=low

  * Backport from trunk:
    - Fix processor detection on SMP i386 and amd64 systems if booting with
      an SMP-capable kernel (LP: #79109; test case taken from that bug).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:02:42 +0000

Has this fix been committed to Feisty? Or, how will we know when it has so we can try it out?

Duncan: as you can see on the Colin's comment, the bug has been fixed. It is on the daily builds, or on the next release (herd3).

Regards
Pochu

I'm using the herd3 alternate cd and I get this problem with the following motherboard/cpu

EPIA EN 15000G C7 Mini-ITX

if you want another details then please ask

my hardware summary

Same problem with me EPIA EN12000 board running a C7 CPU.

Can you fix your CPU detection to handle the VIA CPU's ?

/proc/cpuinfo:
processor : 0
vendor_id : CentaurHauls
cpu family : 6
model : 10
model name : VIA Esther processor 1200MHz
stepping : 9
cpu MHz : 1197.068
cache size : 128 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge cmov pat clflush acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 tm up pni est tm2 rng rng_en ace ace_en ace2 ace2_en phe phe_en pmm pmm_en
bogomips : 2397.07
clflush size : 64

Woops forgot to mention I am using herd4