Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images
On 3/26/22 9:04 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> ...
> On 3/26/22 15:57, Stan Johnson wrote:
>> ... I used the image from your 18 Mar 2022 message:
>> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2022-03-18/non-free/
>
> That image doesn't work. Use the latest one:
>
> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2022-03-24/
Thanks you, that was helpful. Installing from the 2022-03-24
installation CD works.
>> ... I chose a default
>> installation and told the partitioner to use the entire disk. The
>> installer repartitioned the disk to contain the following partitions:
>>
>> 1: /dev/sda1 - partition map
>> 2: /dev/sda2 - Apple_Bootstrap (hfs, 256 MB)
>> 3) /dev/sda3 - Debian rootfs (ext4, ~110 GB)
>> 4) /dev/sda4 - Linux swap (swap, ~768 MB)
>
> Yeah, that doesn't work.
>
> Adrian
>
Adrian,
Yes, actually it does work.
On the PowerBook Pismo, I chose a default installation using the
2022-03-24 CD and the entire disk, and everything worked. Here are the
partitions that were created:
# parted -l
Model: ATA ST9120822A (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 120GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: mac
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 512B 32.8kB 32.3kB Apple
2 32.8kB 256MB 256MB hfs untitled
3 256MB 119GB 119GB ext4 untitled
4 119GB 120GB 759MB linux-swap(v1) swap swap
Block size=512, Number of Blocks=234441648
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
It would be better if the HFS partition (/dev/sda2) were type
Apple_Bootstrap instead of Apple_HFS so that it is not visible to Mac OS
or Mac OS X. And changing it doesn't break anything (as the
Apple_Bootstrap partition, it's still formatted as HFS, so it's the
first HFS partition that Open Firmware sees):
# parted -l
Model: ATA ST9120822A (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 120GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: mac
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 512B 32.8kB 32.3kB Apple
2 32.8kB 256MB 256MB hfs Apple_Bootstrap boot
3 256MB 119GB 119GB ext4 untitled
4 119GB 120GB 759MB linux-swap(v1) swap swap
And it is arguably a bad idea for GRUB to delete the Apple device driver
partitions, even when it's using the entire disk (the "entire disk"
should start after those partitions).
Of course, these are just suggestions, and I'm providing them as part of
my feedback on whether GRUB installation works using the latest Debian
PowerPC installation CD. Debian (and GRUB) maintainers should do
whatever they want. I don't anticipate ever using GRUB on a New World
PowerPC system as long as it doesn't work at least as well as yaboot
(and there's no need for you to say again that yaboot is not supported
upstream; that doesn't stop it from working).
Next I'll test a custom installation with Mac OS and Mac OS X installed
to test whether GRUB can boot multiple operating systems on New World
PowerPC systems.
Thanks for all of your help!
-Stan
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