[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Bug#370418: failed Installation report for etch beta2 on oldworld PowerPC Mac (beige g3)




On Jun 6, 2006, at 5:40 PM, Frans Pop wrote:

(removing all irrelevant CCs; please respect the reply-to)

On Tuesday 06 June 2006 12:18, Rick Thomas wrote:
OK, they are here:

	http://www.rcthomas.org/~rbthomas/logfiles/

As there is absolutely no mention of 2.6.8 in this installation itself,
the problem seems to be in the bootloader configuration and not in
base-installer. Are you sure that the correct initrd and kernel are
loaded?

I don't see anything in the logs about bootloader setup...

The only issue I can see in the install is the same as already spotted by
Sven:
   apt-install: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-runtime.c: 76:
   fixup: Assertion `((reloc->r_info) & 0xff) == 21' failed!
I would say that this is a problem in the target system (maybe
initramfs-tools) rather than in the installer as apt-install effectively
runs in the /target chroot.
It also seems as if this error does not affect the installation itself as
it just continues (although it might cause a broken initrd). It may be
related, but it could also be a totally unrelated issue (though probably
worth following up).

The best way to debug this would be switching to console after base
installation, do a 'chroot /target' and try to generate the initrd
manually (with verbose options and checking the result afterwards; you
may have to mount /sys and /proc).

Anyway, the bootloader configuration should be checked to see why it tries to do anything with a 2.6.8 kernel which presumably comes from some old
install.


It's an oldworld Mac (beige G3) and I use MacOS-9/BootX as the bootloader, so I skipped the "install quik bootloader" step during the install (used "continue without bootloader"). That's probably why you aren't seeing anything in the logs about bootloader setup.

This machine has a partition with sarge on it. Is it trying to do something with the 2.6.8 kernel from there? If so, why?!?

Give me detailed instructions or a pointer to the correct part for me to RTFM, and I'll do the manual initrd generation tonight or tomorrow.

Enjoy!

Rick






Reply to: