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

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas55@pobox.com>]

On Jun 6, 2006, at 6:35 PM, Sven Luther wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 06:29:10PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
> > 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.
>
> How is your BootX configuration done, could it be that you copied  
> or otherwise
> use the wrong ramdisk, namely the one from your sarge install ?  
> Altough this
> one will presumably use initrd-tools, and not initramfs-tools.
>
> Friendly,
>
> Sven Luther

That's one of the first things I thought of too.  Unfortunately, the  
ramdisk and kernel in the BootX folder under MacOS-9 and in the /boot  
directory of the dead beta2 partition match up bit for bit.  I used  
"cmp" to check.

I re-did the boot of the beta2 kernel and initrd just to be sure.   
Same results.

They are "vmlinux--2.6.15-1-powerpc" and "initrd.img-2.6.15-1-powerpc".

I've put them on the same web as the logfiles, if you want to take a  
look.

Enjoy!

Rick