Re: Update Debian Ports installation images 2021-04-14
Hello!
On 8/22/21 2:34 AM, Carlos Milán Figueredo wrote:
>> Afterwards it proceeds to install the base system, but eventually hangs
>> up in one of the "Retrieving xxxxx" packages, never going beyond 6% due
>> to seek errors on the CD-ROM through A1200 Gayle IDE driver (I guess due
>> to something odd in the emulation).
> (...)
> I was able to overcome the IDE CD drive errors by configuring WinUAE to emulate
> the Commodore A2091 SCSI controller and attaching the CD drive to it. This was
> automatically detected by d-i and the install progressed nicely without any seek
> errors.
Please note that there are two IDE drivers for the Gayle controller in the 5.10.x
kernel used in Debian unstable. The legacy IDE driver called "gayle" and the new
driver "pata_gayle". The legacy IDE drivers will be dropped with the kernel 5.14
release [1].
So, you can try to blocklist either the old or the new driver on the kernel command
line with "modprobe.blacklist=gayle" or "modprobe.blacklist=pata_gayle" [2].
If neither of the drivers work, it's likely that there is a bug in the Gayle emulation
of WinUAE.
> The next problem I am facing is a very specific one in the Install base system stage,
> in the base-passwd package, that after "Setting up" dpkg stage in throws a segmentation
> fail due to a bad kernel trap [1][2]. I tested the install twice to make sure the error
> happen at the same exact point so it's not random. Once again, it could be related to
> emulation, so two questions:
>
> 1. Has anyone in this list been successful installing Debian with the 2021-04-14 image on Amiga?
I haven't installed on a real Amiga for a longer time (around 2015/16). But I know that
installation works fine on Aranym. I never managed to install Debian inside WinUAE, so
chances are the emulation is still buggt.
> 2. If I were to try the image on a real Amiga without CD drive, what would be the procedure?
> As I told in previous messages, the hd-media initrd looks like the right one for this case,
> but where do I place the ISO image?
If you really used the actual hd-media images [3], you need to put the ISO image at the top-level
directory of the hard disk that you booted the hd-media images from [4]. But I haven't tested
hd-media images myself before.
Adrian
> [1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.14-Legacy-IDE-Dropped
> [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel_module#Blacklisting
> [3] http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/pool-m68k/main/d/debian-installer/
> [4] https://www.debian.org/releases/etch/i386/apas02.html.en
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