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Re: Centris 650 Debian 10 SID Installation



On Tue, 18 Jun 2019, userm57@yahoo.com wrote:

> On 6/16/19 6:32 PM, Finn Thain wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 Jun 2019, userm57@yahoo.com wrote:
> > 
> >>
> >> 2) After installation, the system was rebooted after a prompt.  A 
> >> question mark appeared on the main screen.  Booting from an external 
> >> disk, Mac OS volumes could be mounted manually using "Disk Utility", 
> >> but they were still not seen after a reboot.  The problem was fixed 
> >> by running "Apple HD SC Setup 7.3.5p" and updating the Apple driver 
> >> on the affected disk.  So it seems likely that something in the 
> >> installation corrupted the Apple driver.
> >>
> > 
> > I was unable to reproduce this with "parted" after installation. Same 
> > with "partman" during installation when removing and adding the root 
> > partition using the "manual partitioning" option. The installer may 
> > not be at fault here. Can you send /var/log/installer/partman?
> > 
> 
> Please see attached. 

Thanks.

> It's a large file, and I'm not sure what to look for.  I didn't use the 
> installer to partition the disk, only to format an existing /dev/sda3 
> partition as ext3 for root and /dev/sda4 as swap under "manual 
> partitioning".  The Apple driver is on /dev/sda2.  Here's the disk 
> partitioning as reported by mac-fdisk in Debian 10:
> 
> -----
> # mac-fdisk -l
> Disk /dev/sda
>         #  type name           length   base     ( size )  system
> /dev/sda1   map Apple              63 @ 1        ( 31.5k)  Partition map
> /dev/sda2  Dr43 Macintosh          32 @ 64       ( 16.0k)  Driver 4.3
> /dev/sda3  unix root         12582912 @ 96       (  6.0G)  Linux native
> /dev/sda4  unix swap          1048576 @ 12583008 (512.0M)  Linux swap
> /dev/sda5  unix test             8192 @ 13631584 (  4.0M)  Linux native
> /dev/sda6  Free Extra         5234593 @ 13639776 (  2.5G)  Free space
> /dev/sda7  unix data          4427887 @ 18874369 (  2.1G)  Linux native
> /dev/sda8  unix root_backup   4194304 @ 23302256 (  2.0G)  Linux native
> /dev/sda9   HFS MacOS         4194304 @ 27496560 (  2.0G)  HFS
> /dev/sda10  HFS Data          4194304 @ 31690864 (  2.0G)  HFS
> 
> Block size=512, Number of Blocks=35885168
> -----
> 
> This looks suspicious -- 2147483648 looks like something hit a 2 GB 
> limit.  Also, the sizes are wrong, and there's no usr partition, so 
> maybe these are defaults of some sort?
> 
> parted_server: OUT: 1   512-32767               32256           primary unknown /dev/sda1       Apple
> parted_server: OUT: 2   32768-49151             16384           primary unknown /dev/sda2       Macintosh
> parted_server: OUT: 3   49152-2147532799        2147483648      primary sun-ufs /dev/sda3       root
> parted_server: OUT: 4   2147532800-2684403711   536870912       primary unknown /dev/sda4       swap
> parted_server: OUT: 5   2684403712-6979371007   4294967296      primary unknown /dev/sda5       usr
> parted_server: OUT: -1  6979371008-9663676927   2684305920      primary free    /dev/sda-1
> parted_server: OUT: 7   9663676928-11930755071  2267078144      primary ext3    /dev/sda7       data
> ...

By the end of the log, the partition type seems to have been changed from 
sun-ufs to ext3 but the size is still 2GB:

parted_server: OUT: 3   49152-2147532799        2147483648      primary ext3    /dev/sda3       root
parted_server: OUT: 4   2147532800-2684403711   536870912       primary linux-swap      /dev/sda4       swap
parted_server: OUT: 5   2684403712-6979371007   4294967296      primary ext3    /dev/sda5       usr

Did parted initialize a 6 GB filesystem on the sda3 partition, or did you 
end up with a 2 GiB filesystem at the start of a 6 GB partition?

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