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Bug#281878: installation-reports: Several failures with RC1 on Oldworld Powermac



On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 10:17:01AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:

> > > Could you please provide this information ? a full lspci and lspci -n output
> > > would be very welcome.
> > 
> > I'll see what I can do (probably won't have time to experiment more
> > until early next week).  Do the d-i images have lspci included or will
> > I have to find a more cunning way of getting this information?
> 
> Just look at /proc/pci and /proc/bus/pci/devices with more.

Okay.  Photos at http://cp.yi.org/cameron/macboot/ - it was a bit much
to copy out by hand.

However, when I tried the install again today, the ethernet worked.
This is very odd since it's still using the same kernel.

The 'install quik on a hard disk' step failed, saying that the root
partition had to be ext2, while I had used ext3 (the installer's
default).  I chrooted into /target and installed quik by hand and it
looked like it worked.  Unfortunately when the machine rebooted it
just came up with the floppy icon with a blinking question mark :(

> > > With a strange color penguin and a black background ? 
> > 
> > From memory, the colours stayed normal and the background was the grey
> > and black one that you get when the machine boots normally with the
> > "happy mac" icon.
> 
> Mmm, this is different from what we were seeing. The icon kind of
> reverse-videoed, and the machine stopped.

Nope, definitely no reverse video on 2.6 boot.img or ofonlyboot.img.

One thing I discovered is that if I held down Command+Option while the
machine booted, miboot would spit out a heap of debugging information.
I took a couple of photos of it in case it would help anyone.  The
first picture is when it's reading from the floppy and the second
picture is where it hangs.

> > > > The 2.4 ofonlyboot.img failed in much the same way, but ejected the
> > > > floppy from the drive first.  There was no output on the screen or the
> > > > serial console.
> > > 
> > > What happens when you introduce the root floppy after that and press
> > > enter ? 

It loads from the floppy, but still doesn't write anything to the
screen or serial port.

Cameron.

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