SIGKILL during installtion

[krishanu]

Hi ,
I am trying to install debian 64bit,
The installation process is stopping and a terminal display is coming with

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Sent SIGKILL to all processes
Requesting system poweroff

I am unable to boot to windows also.it says no operating system
I am using 55gb partition,among which auto-partition took 2GB for swap and rest to / .
I had checked the download checksum and written to DVD with verification enabled ,so shouldnt be any corruption issue.
when I tried again with advanced graphical mode, it got this when it was working on "apt"
and one usb volume detected problem was coming in advanced mode in between , which I was disabling to load.
Note: actually I by mistake started the installation process earlier once with the DVDimage loaded in virtual CD drive of Daemon tools,which obviously got stuck after rebooting with no CD-ROM found error,not sure if this can cause issue.
here is the youtube link of my problem, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyKLw11x2sI
Anything to do with BIOS ? Any particular log I should try to access and post here ?
urgent help required,I have only one machine

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Was your battery charged when you started the installer?

Did you tell the installer to use your whole drive?

If so then your Windows system is gone.

I don't know what you mean by this:

actually I by mistake started the installation process earlier once with the DVDimage loaded in virtual drive,which got stuck after booting with no CD-ROM found error,not sure if this can cause issue.

Can you explain further please?

[krishanu]

Hi Head_on_a_Stick,
I didn't opt for whole drive.
So when I was still in windows,I partitioned out a 55GB space.
Now while in Debian installation , this partition I deleted and chose auto partition which automatically chose 2GB for swap and rest fort /.
And by this,

actually I by mistake started the installation process earlier once with the DVDimage loaded in virtual drive,which got stuck after booting with no CD-ROM found error,not sure if this can cause issue.

I mean after downloading the .img file I loaded in virtual CD drive using Daemon tool,and by mistake started the installation from there,which without surprise got stuck with no CD ROM found error
Then after coming out ,I burned the img to DVD,(only 1 DVD) and started the installation.

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Does your laptop boot and function with a live version (if you downloaded the live DVD)?

EDIT: Can you use your Windows installation disk to repair your bootloader?

[krishanu]

Does your laptop boot and function with a live version (if you downloaded the live DVD)?

EDIT: Can you use your Windows installation disk to repair your bootloader?

I haven't tried it, but earlier I had used openSUSE with windows xp(both 32bit),didn't give any problem.
But now I am trying Debian 64bit,with windows7 64bit.
I can use the windows installation disk,will try that once.
But If I want to use Debian, again it will go to this situation !! As I have tried 3 times.
Anything to do with BIOS?

[Head_on_a_Stick]

But If I want to use debian again it will go to this situation !! As I have tried 3 times.
Anything to do with BIOS?

I don't think so -- if the installer boots past GRUB then your firmware (BIOS) settings are fine.

Use the live environment to check hardware compatibility.

And make sure your laptop is fully charged or plugged in.

[krishanu]

Any particular log I should try to access and post here ?

[krishanu]

looks like there was a post long back stating the same issue,but it is unresolved and unattended.
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... LL#p292059

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Use the live environment to check hardware compatibility.

Does your machine boot the Debian live environment?

[krishanu]

Does your machine boot the Debian live environment?

Sorry, I don't have a live Debian CD to check that !
I will repair windows and download live image and burn to CD. I will post ASAP.

[krishanu]

Hi I was able to repair windows using installation dvd.
I tried running debian Live dvd, gnome version.

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cant open 'sys/block/*/removable' : No such file or directory   (it came many times)
[ 92.808257] uhci_hcd: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
*
*some busybox output
*
/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
(initramfs) Unable to find a medium containing a live file system
modprobe: module ehci-orion not found in moudles.dep

Note: After clicking memory test in debian Live cd , nothing is happening
Then I inserted openSUSE cd, memory test was running fine for sometime. but it failed in firmware test.

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[FAIL] MTRR validation
F       Memory range 0xcc000000 to 0xccffffff (PCI Bus 0000:02) has incorrect attribute
------many like this
F       Failed to locate HPET base
--
F       No SMBIOS nor entry point found.
--
F       memory hole test. The memory map has a hole between 15Mb and 16Mb

Then I tried ubuntu Live cd , it also got stuck while loading.
Something is seriously wrong,as all this used to work earlier.
Anthing to do with the USB?
I am unable to attach photos for some reason.

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Looks like you have a hardware problem.

To post images, upload them to an image hosting site -- I like http://postimage.org/ -- and post the generated link ("Forum BBCode (1)") here.

[millpond]

I would recommend downloading a HIREN'S BOOTCD image, burning it, and run disk checks on the partitions with the tools supplied.

I would imagine, that at least in theory, there would be potential problems with a CD image mounted on a hard drive trying to repartition its own media.
It sounds like it could result in an fsck on a live (mounted) filesystem.

[krishanu]

Hi all,
There were 2 possible issues , heat and usb hub.
while in advanced mode installation ,Debian was getting stuck in USB device recognition,it was looping in the detection of mouse like forever.some months back when I tried to repair laptop,the repairman did some crap on the USB,he was able to burn 2 of my USB ports.so possibly a problem. So I removed the hub(externally powered though) and started fresh. Then I was stuck with /sys/block/*/removable not found issue. found on net,people are having this issue too.
I tried in a heated machine and Ubuntu live cd failed but on cooled down machine I was able to boot off Ubuntu (old 8.1) live.
And after comparing the size of installation and other factors I went with ubuntu 64 bit images. And after resolving some initial problems(NOMODESET, Nvidia GPU driver issue) ,I was able to install it ,and its working fine.
left with impression that Debian is for high end configurations, even a dual core 2.1GHz laptop with 4GB RAM wasn't enough.