Bug#240109: Additional confirmation and info
I have reconfirmed that this bug still occurs using the Official
Sarge CD-ROM #1 image built 4/28/2004, downloaded via jigdo.
I also tried the same installation using the 4/30/2004 netinst
CD from the installer archive folder, and it works as expected.
Here are the kernel packages available on CD #1:
kernel-package:
kernel-package_8.086_all.deb
kernel-patch-2.4.20-apus:
kernel-headers-2.4.20-apus_2.4.20-1_powerpc.deb
kernel-image-2.4.20-apus_2.4.20-1_powerpc.deb
kernel-patch-2.4.22-powerpc:
kernel-modules-2.4.22-powerpc-small_2.4.22-13_powerpc.deb
kernel-modules-2.4.22-powerpc-smp_2.4.22-13_powerpc.deb
kernel-modules-2.4.22-powerpc_2.4.22-13_powerpc.deb
kernel-patch-2.4.25-apus:
kernel-headers-2.4.25-apus_2.4.25-2_powerpc.deb
kernel-image-2.4.25-apus_2.4.25-2_powerpc.deb
kernel-image-apus_2.4.25-2_powerpc.deb
kernel-patch-2.4.25-powerpc:
kernel-image-2.4.25-power3-chrp_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb
kernel-image-2.4.25-power4-chrp_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb
kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-prep_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb
kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-small-pmac_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb
kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-smp-prep_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb
kernel-modules-2.4.25-power3_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb
kernel-modules-2.4.25-power4_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb
kernel-modules-2.4.25-powerpc-small_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb
kernel-modules-2.4.25-powerpc-smp_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb
kernel-modules-2.4.25-powerpc_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb
Here are the kernel packages on the netinst CD:
kernel-patch-2.4.25-apus:
kernel-image-2.4.25-apus_2.4.25-2_powerpc.deb
kernel-patch-2.4.25-powerpc:
kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-chrp-rs6k_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb
kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-chrp_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb
kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-pmac_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb
kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-prep_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb
kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-small-pmac_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb
kernel-modules-2.4.25-powerpc-small_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb
kernel-modules-2.4.25-powerpc_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb
Here is the diff between the two:
--- netinst.list 2004-05-07 20:58:22.000000000 +0000
+++ sarge-1.list 2004-05-07 20:58:15.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,11 +1,28 @@
+kernel-package:
+kernel-package_8.086_all.deb
+
+kernel-patch-2.4.20-apus:
+kernel-headers-2.4.20-apus_2.4.20-1_powerpc.deb
+kernel-image-2.4.20-apus_2.4.20-1_powerpc.deb
+
+kernel-patch-2.4.22-powerpc:
+kernel-modules-2.4.22-powerpc-small_2.4.22-13_powerpc.deb
+kernel-modules-2.4.22-powerpc-smp_2.4.22-13_powerpc.deb
+kernel-modules-2.4.22-powerpc_2.4.22-13_powerpc.deb
+
kernel-patch-2.4.25-apus:
+kernel-headers-2.4.25-apus_2.4.25-2_powerpc.deb
kernel-image-2.4.25-apus_2.4.25-2_powerpc.deb
+kernel-image-apus_2.4.25-2_powerpc.deb
kernel-patch-2.4.25-powerpc:
-kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-chrp-rs6k_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb
-kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-chrp_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb
-kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-pmac_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb
+kernel-image-2.4.25-power3-chrp_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb
+kernel-image-2.4.25-power4-chrp_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb
kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-prep_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb
kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-small-pmac_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb
+kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-smp-prep_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb
+kernel-modules-2.4.25-power3_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb
+kernel-modules-2.4.25-power4_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb
kernel-modules-2.4.25-powerpc-small_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb
+kernel-modules-2.4.25-powerpc-smp_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb
kernel-modules-2.4.25-powerpc_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb
The correct kernel for my machine,
kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-pmac_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb, is only
available on the netinst image. There are really two corrections
necessary:
1) CD #1 needs to get up to speed
2) the installer should never install a completely inappropriate kernel
Because #2 occurs, I believe the severity of this bug should be moved
back to critical. I'm not changing the severity, because I'm not
involved with installer development now. But if people around the
world try to install Sarge on newworld Macs and their machine becomes
a) unbootable and b) unrecoverable with the CD they burned, they are
really gonna be pissed. Remember, newworld Macs have no floppies.
There is really no recovery path using that machine, if they've
formatted the disk; the user would have to burn a better CD on another
machine to get his machine back. We should not release an installer
that is capable of this.
I'll just mention at the end here that the installer is really top
notch now, it installed the base system without a hitch and I didn't
have one clue that anything was wrong until yaboot installation barfed
with 'Failed to mount /proc'. The underlying problem was yabootconfig
being unable to find a bootable kernel in /boot.
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Debian GNU/Linux Operating System
By the People, For the People
Chris Tillman (a people instance)
toff one at cox dot net
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