On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 12:03:27AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > Shortly after starting the base installation, I got an error in a Warning > box with only a Continue button. The error was "creating empty ld.so.conf". > Next was a similar alert "creating empty exim.conf so exim installs OK". these are not errors, just `informative' messages. i think they should just go away myself. they are actually produced by debootstrap and not dbootstrap. > Just before finishing the base install step, there was a message that > flashed up out of the blue background, something about "PAM-unix[G4] session > opened for user man". known issue, this probably won't go away either. it happens because man-db's postinst calls su -c 'mandb -c' and since there is no syslog listening to /target/dev/log (where the chrooted su ran) the log entry falls back to being spewed to the console. > When I looked at tty4 I saw a few problems. I tried to scroll up with > Shift-PageUp, but that didn't work for me. I looked for a log in /var/log, > but couldn't find that log; just the one from tty3. So I probably only have > half the story. Where does that log live? Here are the intereesting > messages: this isn't really a log, the stdout/stderr from dpkg are redirected to /dev/tty4. shift page up doesn't work after you switch virtual consoles. > After that, I ran Make the Hard disk Bootable, and received the alert > "yaboot installation failed" > Switching back to tty3, there were some very informative messages: > > executing yabootconfig -q -t /target -b /dev/hda8 -r /dev/hda13 > <hda8 was swap and hda13 root> um what? /dev/hda8 was your swap partititon? that should not be, this step should have refused to run if it could not locate your Apple_Bootstrap partition. please send a dump of your partition table: mac-fdisk -l /dev/hda > Sorry you must mount your root and /usr filesystems on /target and > /target/usr before running yabootconfig > <I had only designated one partition, no separate /usr partition> this is because you installed woody and not sid. yaboot 1.2.1-1.2.1-1 is not in woody yet. this step will fail until it is. the message about mounting / and /usr is from the wrapper on the ramdisk, this is looking for /target/usr/sbin/yabootconfig which was added in yaboot 1.2.1-1.2.1-1 which as i said is not in woody. the message is generic it says the same thing regardless of how you partitioned your disk. if you have a suggestion on how to word that error better feel free to make it. don't suggest that it be magical about figuring out whether mounting /usr would be needed or not, the idea is you must mount your real installed base partitions. > I'll try this on my oldworld as soon as an 8139 driver shows up. (Since i > can't install from the hard disk anymore, I have to wait for support of my > network card). have you filed a bug against kernel-image-2.2.19-pmac yet? -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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