Bug#252027: marked as done (bug 251823 continued : dies installing the base system on OldWorld PowerPC Macs)
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From: Rick_Thomas <rbthomas@rcthomas.org>
Subject: bug 251823 continued : dies installing the base system on OldWorld
PowerPC Macs
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Hmmm....
Maybe not so much as expected after all.
It died installing the base system. This is repeatable (I tried it
twice, it died identically)
Base system installation error
the debootstrap program exited with an error (return value 1)
Here's the last few lines of /var/log/syslog
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Jun 1 05:57:46 (none) user.debug main-menu[246]: DEBUG: Menu item
'nobootloader' selected
Jun 1 05:57:46 (none) user.debug main-menu[246]: DEBUG: configure
nobootloader, status: 2
Jun 1 05:57:46 (none) user.debug main-menu[246]: DEBUG: configure
kernel-installer, status: 0
Jun 1 05:57:46 (none) user.debug main-menu[246]: DEBUG: virtual package
kernel-installer
Jun 1 05:57:46 (none) user.debug main-menu[246]: DEBUG: configure
base-installer, status: 2
Jun 1 05:57:46 (none) user.debug main-menu[246]: DEBUG: configure
libc6, status: 0
Jun 1 05:57:46 (none) user.debug main-menu[246]: DEBUG: configure
libdebconfclient0, status: 0
Jun 1 05:57:46 (none) user.debug main-menu[246]: DEBUG: virtual package
libdebconfclient0
Jun 1 05:57:46 (none) user.debug main-menu[246]: DEBUG: configure
libdebian-installer4, status: 0
Jun 1 05:57:46 (none) user.debug main-menu[246]: DEBUG: virtual package
libdebian-installer4
Jun 1 05:57:46 (none) user.debug main-menu[246]: DEBUG: configure
mounted-partitions, status: 0
Jun 1 05:57:46 (none) user.debug main-menu[246]: DEBUG: virtual package
mounted-partitions
Jun 1 05:57:46 (none) user.debug main-menu[246]: DEBUG: configure
created-fstab, status: 0
Jun 1 05:57:46 (none) user.debug main-menu[246]: DEBUG: virtual package
created-fstab
Jun 1 06:00:28 (none) daemon.info init: Starting pid 70, console
/dev/vc/2: '/bin/sh'
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And the same for /var/log/messages
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Setting up console-common (0.7.43) ...
Looking for keymap to install:
NONE
Setting up tasksel (1.51) ...
Setting up console-tools (0.2.3dbs-52) ...
Setting up base-config (2.23) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
apt-utils
umount: /target/dev/pts: No such file or directory
umount: /target/dev/shm: No such file or directory
umount: /target/proc/bus/usb: Invalid argument
================================================
The complete files are available on request
Rick
On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 01:20, Rick_Thomas wrote:
> Well... The black screen problem is solved. Though I'm not completely
> sure why it's necessary to do this...
>
> I changed the BootX kernel arguments to
> video=atyfb:vmode:13,cmode:8
> which uses 8-bit video mode. (the "vmode:3" quoted below is a typo. I
> was, and still am, using vmode:13, which is 832x624 pixels mode)
>
> After that it was all pretty much as expected.
>
> Does anybody know why it wants 8-bit mode?
>
> Rick
>
>
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This can be closed. The problem has disappeared in the mists of
testing. I've successfully gotten beyond this point several times.
Rick
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