Bug#233497: debian-installer: ieee1394 hd not detected : BIG PROGRESS
Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
Unfortunately I was unable to actually achieve the installation, because
yaboot.conf can't be written -- sid the error message. It's perhaps due
to my 800k bootstrap partition non being HFS formatted.
parse error :-)
What is the exact error message of yaboot-installer.
It's as I said: non HFS formatted
But I have some news that can help:
-1- I was able to chroot to the just installed / partition.
chroot /target /bin/bash
mount -t proc proc /proc
-2- Then I ran ofpath /dev/sda6 and the answer was clear: SBP-2 unsupported.
So the culprit is clearly ofpath lacking fw support.
However I was able to setup my bootstrap partition by manually supplying
OF path with this command:
-3- mkofboot -b /dev/sda4 -o ed0:4
( ed0 is my short OF path name, actually it is a permanent devalias I
made in OF to save huge amount of typing and typing errors )
At least d-i should let experts supply OF path when problems arise.
-4- Now I boot fine from my bootstrap partition.
But it's not the end of the story:
-1- I don't know how to resume d-i after this second manual setting.
-2- I don't know what should be yaboot.conf at the end of d-i process to
ensure success of second-stage install
-3- Worse: the vmlinux kernel just installed is not as the one of d-i :
it relies on modules to support ieee1394
-4- So there is a classical chicken-egg issue, normally solved by initrd.
-5- I can't go further, because I can't hack initrd=root.bin: both
systems lack the loop support that I'd need to customize inird, and I'm
not able to handle ext2 disk images from within MacOS X.
That's all
Merci, Dankeschöne.
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