Aranym installation, was Re: Centris 650 Debian 10 SID Installation
Using Aranym, I booted the kernel binary from the 2019-05-24 ISO with
these parameters:
debian-installer/framebuffer=false initcall_blacklist=dh_init
I found that the arrow keys stopped working after I selected the American
English keymap (this step can be skipped). It turns out that ctrl-P and
ctrl-N are substitutes for up-arrow and down-arrow keys.
I also found that the old installer bug which prevents CD-ROM drive
detection on Atari is still there. I had to spawn a shell to run these
commands:
# modprobe pata-falcon
# modprobe isofs
# mount /dev/sr0 /cdrom
Then the "Detect and mount CD-ROM" step then worked. (You can use
falconide and /dev/hdX instead.)
I had to select "no network card" after network detection failed. There's
probably some issue with my Aranym config; I never resolved this.
With those workarounds I was able to "install the base system".
As with the Mac installation, the console-setup package changed the
framebuffer console font and mangled the window borders. You can see the
terminus font problem in this screenshot:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-68k/2019/06/msg00019.html
The next steps in the installation ("configure the package manager",
"select and install software") seemingly aren't possible without a network
connection, so I skipped to "proceed without bootloader" which completed
successfully.
I was able to use the installed initrd and kernel to boot the new system
once I figured out that root=/dev/nfhdXpY. But that isn't going to work
outside of Aranym.
The system should be bootable using root=/dev/sdXY but this doesn't work
because the initrd fails to load the modules (pata-falcon, atari_scsi
etc.)
I found that the installer didn't list any modules in
/etc/initramfs-tools/modules.
HTH.
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