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Bug#249955: sarge beta 4 powerpc installer issues

Package: installation-reports

Debian-installer-version: sarge beta 4 for powerpc downloaded from
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/powerpc/beta4/ sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso
uname -a: Linux jms1ibook 2.4.25-powerpc #1 mer avr 14 15:38:38 CEST 2004 ppc GNU/Linux 

Date: 2004-05-01 1500-1600 UTC-0400
Method: Boot from CD, other packages via apt after manually configuring wireless card 

Machine: Apple iBook G3-900
Processor: PowerPC G3 900MHz
Memory: 640MB
Root Device: internal 40GB HD, /dev/hda10

Root Size/partition table:
/dev/hda
# type name length base ( size ) system /dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 ( 31.5k) Partition map /dev/hda2 Apple_Driver43 Macintosh 56 @ 64 ( 28.0k) Driver 4.3 /dev/hda3 Apple_Driver43 Macintosh 56 @ 120 ( 28.0k) Driver 4.3 /dev/hda4 Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh 56 @ 176 ( 28.0k) Unknown /dev/hda5 Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh 56 @ 232 ( 28.0k) Unknown /dev/hda6 Apple_FWDriver Macintosh 512 @ 288 (256.0k) Unknown /dev/hda7 Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh 512 @ 800 (256.0k) Unknown /dev/hda8 Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512 @ 1312 (256.0k) Unknown /dev/hda9 Apple_Bootstrap untitled 2048 @ 1824 ( 1.0M) NewWorld bootblock /dev/hda10 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 1572864 @ 3872 (768.0M) Linux swap /dev/hda11 Apple_Bootstrap linux_root 8388608 @ 1576736 ( 4.0G) NewWorld bootblock /dev/hda12 Apple_HFS MacOS X 55088704 @ 9965344 ( 26.3G) HFS /dev/hda13 Apple_HFS MacOS 9 13086104 @ 65054048 ( 6.2G) HFS /dev/hda14 Apple_Free Extra 8 @ 78140152 ( 4.0k) Free space 

Block size=512, Number of Blocks=78140160
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
Drivers-
1: @ 64 for 23, type=0x1
2: @ 120 for 36, type=0xffff
3: @ 176 for 21, type=0x701
4: @ 232 for 34, type=0xf8ff

Output of lspci:
pcilib: Cannot open /sys/bus/pci/devices
0000:00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth/Pangea AGP
0000:00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500] 
0000:10:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth/Pangea PCI
0000:10:17.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Pangea Mac I/O
0000:10:18.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Pangea USB
0000:10:19.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Pangea USB
0000:20:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth/Pangea Internal PCI 0000:20:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth/Pangea FireWire 0000:20:0f.0 Class ffff: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth/Pangea GMAC (Sun GEM) (rev ff) 


Base System Installation Checklist:

Initial boot worked:    [O]
Configure network HW:   [O]
Config network:         [E]
Detect CD:              [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives:     [O]
Partition hard drives:  [O]
Create file systems:    [O]
Mount partitions:       [O]
Install base system:    [O]
Install boot loader:    [E]
Reboot:                 [O]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Comments/Problems:
The installer detected eth0 as the motherboard ethernet card and eth1 as the airwire card. I was able to connect to the internet through the airwire card, but the installer didn't write out an /etc/network/interfaces block for eth1.
After the installer was finished and rebooted the machine, it didn't boot to a linux boot loader- it booted directly to OSX. I was able to boot linux by holding down the "option" key during the boot and selecting the linux partition from the menu, and finished installing the boot loader by running "ybin".
The other thing I noticed is that there is no "sbp2" module in the kernel, which means I am not able to access my external firewire disks from linux... however the "dmesg" messages show something having to do with "connecting to sbp2 device" with the GUID of the disk, which makes me guess that the sbp2 module is compiled into the kernel itself. is there some secret to accessing this disk? i've tried adding the various ieee1394 modules which ARE available, without any success. 

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| John Simpson - KG4ZOW - Programmer At Large |
| http://www.jms1.net/        <jms1@jms1.net> |
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