Bug#241001: Mostly successful Mac m68k install - fstab/partitioning issues.
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 10:27:24AM +0100, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> Booting was a real PITA; I think mainly because I tried the images linked
> from the d-i page first rather than Stephen Marenka's images. Once I had those
> it was a lot simpler.
I'm glad the newer ones worked for you.
> Was worried about memory as Stephen had said 40MB was probably needed; didn't
> seem to be a problem however.
We have a report of a successful 24MB, so I was way off with my
speculations.
> Disk partitioning only offers /dev/sda; I have /dev/sdb as well which is where
> I actually wanted to install. Was able to used mac-fdisk from the shell
> manually to partition /dev/sdb
I think this might be a ui bug in the partitioner. If you're in a
position to try again, I'd like to see what /proc/partitions looks like.
That and the relevant bits about sdb from dmesg.
I'd also like to see if the new partitioner (partman) handles this
better. If you feel like it, boot with DEBCONF_PRIORITY=low and select
"Partition a disk." Let us know what you think.
> I initially tried with a SyQuest removable drive rather than the Conner drive
> as sdb, but when it didn't get listed I assumed it wasn't being detected.
Probably not, but if the kernel knows about it, then we can support it.
Can you find anything about it in dmesg?
> All ok until I rebooted into the new system (used the same kernel as for
> install but told Penguin to pass root=/dev/sdb5):
>
> No /etc/fstab; or rather, an empty one.
I think I've been hearing about this bug lately on debian-boot. That's
annoying.
> Created this manually.
>
> Rest of the install seemed to go fine, albeit very, very slowly.
Thanks for helping us test!
Stephen
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