Bug#374278: Install report: 12Ã" PowerBook G4 1.33Ghz
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 12:51:53AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> Hoi Wouter,
> On Sunday 18 June 2006 12:48, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > I couldn't find the install-report template on my hard disk (maybe I'm
> > not looking at the right place; it used to be in /root, but it's not
> > there now), so I'm doing things manually.
>
> Correct. It has been replaced by a template in reportbug
Ahhh, that explains :-)
> > The installation went fine up to the point where I tried to use LVM
> > rather than a "regular" install partition; I could create a physical
> > volume in the partman interface, but when I tried to create a volume
> > group with that one, the LVM interface would quit, and I would be
> > dumped back in the "regular" partman interface. After I'd changed the
> > partition type from being an LVM PV to an XFS filesystem, the
> > installation went on.
>
> I'm going to ignore this until we get to debug it a bit more as agreed...
Okay.
> > The reboot didn't work, however. The first message I got was one of
> >
> > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> > RAMDISK: incomplete write (-28 != 32768) 8388608
> >
> > at which point it failed to go on. I tried booting with a different
> > kernel (the one of my already-installed unstable system), but the
> > initrd of that one apparently ignores root= kernel command line
> > parameters, so it didn't help much. I also tried booting with the
> > parameter 'ramdisk_size=20000' (if I tried 10000, it failed a bit
> > further on), but then the system would complain that it could not find
> > root on "unknown-device(0,0)".
>
> I can't help very much as I'm totally unfamiliar with bootloading on ppc,
> but some general suggestions may help narrow things down.
> Try using the rescue option of d-i to get a chroot on the installed
> system:
> - check what the uncompressed size of the generated initrd is
13M (13548544 bytes)
> - try booting with break={top,modules,premount,mount,bottom,init}; this
> will give you debug shells at different points in the initramfs stage;
> check the value of env var ROOT.
> - make a copy of it for future reference and debugging
> - try installing yaird, build an initrd with that and see if that boots
Will try these (and the rescue option) tonight--I need my laptop for
work :-)
> As ramdisk_size does seem to make a difference, I guess that is part of
> the problem. Did you get dropped into a debug shell after the
> "unknown-device(0,0)" error?
No, I got the familiar "will reboot in 180 seconds" panic output from
the kernel.
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Fun will now commence
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