Bug#249178: netinstall failed on powerbook G4 1.5GHz : yaboot-installer bootstrap not recognized
reassign 249178 yaboot-installer
thanks
On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 06:49:52PM +0200, Arnaud Kelbert wrote:
> out of grep yaboot-installer /var/log/syslog:
>
> info : subarchitecture powermac_newworld
> info : allowing partition types matching 'hfs'
> info : parted dump of partition table on /dev/discs/disc0/disc
> Disc geometry for /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc :
> 0.000-76319.085 megabytes
> Disk label type : mac
> Minor Start End Filesystem Name
> Flags
> 1 0.000 0.031 Apple
> 2 0.031 0.812 ext2 bootstrap
> boot
> 3 0.812 512.812 linux-swap swap
> swap
> 4 512.812 1536.812 ext3 /
> 5 1536.812 10752.812 ext3 /home
> 6 10752.812 13252.812 ext3 /var
> 7 13252.812 14276.812 ext3 /tmp
> 8 14276.812 25567.726 ext3 /usr
> 9 25567.727 50879.421 hfs+ Apple_HFS_Untitled_4
> 11 51007.422 76319.078 hfs+ Apple_HFS_Untitled_5
> Error : No bootstrap partitions found
> Configuring 'yaboot-installer' failed with error code 1
>
>
> Comments/Problems:
>
> Prior to install the base system I create a bootstrap partition with
> mac-fdisk (b option on partition 2) in a shell.
> Partman doesn't recognize it as a bootstrap partition but as ext2 and
> yaboot-installer failed saying that no bootstrap partition was found.
> Installation failed here. I can continue the installation of base
> system but no way to boot debian after.
I believe I've finally found out what's wrong with this, after
reproducing it once again myself: parted doesn't report "hfs" unless you
actually create an hfs filesystem there; we don't have hfsutils-udeb,
and don't really want to create a filesystem there anyway since mkofboot
does it later.
I also believe I know the necessary fix, finally: I'll have
partman-newworld stuff the list of boot partitions into a debconf
template which yaboot-installer can then just fetch.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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