Bug#241400: marked as done (install-report success (sort of) on OldWorld PowerMac)
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Subject: install-report success (sort of) on OldWorld PowerMac
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INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version:
Date: daily for powerpc for March 30, 2004.
Image from: <http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/powerpc/20040330/sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso>
uname -a:
Linux debian 2.4.25-powerpc #1 ven mar 19 19:29:26 CET 2004 ppc GNU/Linux
Date:
March 30, 2004 between Midnight and 4AM Eastern US time.
Method:
How did you install? BootX -- with "DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium" -- see step-by-step description below...
What did you boot off? MacOS 9.2.2 via BootX with kernel and initrd.gz from the CD with the CD in the drive
If network install, from where? ftp.us.debian.org
Proxied? No
Machine:
PowerMacintosh G3 (beige minitower)
Processor:
PowerPC G3
Memory:
192 MB
Root Device:
IDE /dev/hdc8
Root Size/partition table:
# mac-fdisk -l
/dev/hdc
# type name length base ( size ) system
/dev/hdc1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 ( 31.5k) Partition map
/dev/hdc2 Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh 54 @ 64 ( 27.0k) Unknown
/dev/hdc3 Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh 74 @ 118 ( 37.0k) Unknown
/dev/hdc4 Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh 512 @ 192 (256.0k) Unknown
/dev/hdc5 Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512 @ 704 (256.0k) Unknown
/dev/hdc6 Apple_HFS MacOS 2097152 @ 1216 ( 1.0G) HFS (MacOS system & BootX)
/dev/hdc7 Apple_HFS boot 2097152 @ 2098368 ( 1.0G) HFS (for possible use wiht miboot or quik)
/dev/hdc8 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root 41943040 @ 4195520 ( 20.0G) Linux native (ext3)
/dev/hdc9 swap swap 2097152 @ 46138560 ( 1.0G) Linux swap (swap)
/dev/hdc10 Apple_Free Extra 220199743 @ 48235712 (105.0G) Free space
Block size=512, Number of Blocks=268435454
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
Drivers-
1: @ 64 for 21, type=0x701
2: @ 118 for 34, type=0xf8ff
Output of lspci:
# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Motorola MPC106 [Grackle] (rev 40)
00:10.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. Heathrow Mac I/O (rev 01)
00:12.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage I/II 215GT [Mach64 GT] (rev 9a)
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [O] manually -- my local DHCP is flakey
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [E] detected hardware and presented a list of candidate modules to load.
This all worked OK but it seemed to want to load the same list of modules more than once
at different ponints in the process.
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O] manually -- so as not to disrupt the MacOS partiton already on the disk.
Create file systems: [O]
Mount partitions: [O] Though I had to fill in "/etc/fstab" manually. It did not do that automatically (see below)
Install base system: [O]
Install boot loader: [E] I had to tell it not to install a bootloader. OldWorld PowerMacs can't handle yaboot. (see below)
Reboot: [E] This was a bit tricky because it didn't fill in /etc/fstab before re-booting (see below)
Comments/Problems:
<Description of the install, in prose, and any thoughts, comments
and ideas you had during the initial install.>
When I tried it without "DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium" it blew up trying to install the yaboot bootloader.
Joey Hess wrote:
> I'm suprised this didn't already work; we have an option that is
> supposed to kick in if no other bootloader installer is available. It
> should have shown up on the menu as "Continue without boot loader", or
> been automatically run.
There is a "continue without boot loader" option on the main menu,
but the main menu doesn't show up by default. You have to ask for
it in the kernel boot options -- or wait for an error to occur.
In any case, it wasn't obvious when or how I was supposed to
invoke "continue without...", and before I knew what was
happening, the bootloader installer had blown up in my face.
So I set priority to medium and tried again following these steps...
1) Install MacOS (8.x or 9.x) in an HFS (*not* HFS+)
partition.
2) Install BootX in that partition.
3) Get the kernel and initrd.gz from the latest nightly
build businesscard CD and put them in the appropriate
places in the system folder of the MacOS partition. Leave
the businesscard CD in the drive.
4) Run BootX to load that kernel and ram-disk.
5) Answer questions as appropriate.
6) I may have to tell it to install the HFS filesystem kernel
module to be able to copy the new kernel to the MacOS partition
so BootX can find it for the reboot.
6) When d-i gets to that point, partition and format the disk
manually, being careful to leave the MacOS partition intact.
I made a 20 GB root partition and a 1 GB swap partition.
7) At this point, inform d-i that I don't want it to
install a boot loader by running "Continue without..."
By doing this before it automatically tries to install
yaboot, I avoid that part blowing up.
8) Pick a kernel package that is appropriate to the
hardware. Such as "kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-pmac"
9) When it's all done with the first phase and wants to
reboot so it can run the configuration stuff, I switch to
the second virtual console and copy the kernel to the
appropriate place in the system folder of the MacOS
partition. I also have to manually build /target/etc/fstab
because some bug prevented it from getting built automatically
during the disk partitioning and formatting section.
10) Switch back to the main console and allow it to reboot,
which will wind me up back in MacOS where I can tell BootX
about the new kernel and the location of the new root disk.
11) Let BootX load Linux.
12) Answer the configuration questions.
This is roundabout, but it worked. I'm typing this on the
resulting installed system.
Let me know if you need anything more, such as log files...
Rick
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