Bug#271418: After reboot wrong ethernet interface is primary on Oldworld PowerPC Macintosh
Package: installation-reports
powerpc BootX 20040911 businesscard OldWorld PowerMac
See note 3
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: <Fill in date and from where you got the
image>
Index of /pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/current
Name Last modified Size Description
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Parent Directory 12-Sep-2004 00:13 -
MD5SUMS 12-Sep-2004 00:13 1k
>>> sarge-powerpc-businesscard.iso 12-Sep-2004 00:07 140M
sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso 12-Sep-2004 00:13 297M
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Apache/1.3.31 Server at cdimage.debian.org Port 80
uname -a: <The result of running uname -a on a shell prompt>
Linux debian 2.6.8-powerpc #1 Fri Aug 27 18:02:26 CEST 2004 ppc
GNU/Linux
Date: <Date and time of the install>
3:00 AM US East Coast time Sept 12, 2004
Method: How did you install? What did you boot off? If network
install, from where? Proxied?
MacOS BootX using the "2.6" kernel and initrd.gz
from the install/powerpc folder on the indicated
businesscard CD image with an assist from the
uchicago "testing" mirror
Machine: <Description of machine (eg, IBM Thinkpad R32)>
PowerMac G3/300 MHz
Processor:
processor : 0
cpu : 740/750
temperature : 36-41 C (uncalibrated)
clock : 300MHz
revision : 2.2 (pvr 0008 0202)
bogomips : 601.29
machine : Power Macintosh
motherboard : AAPL,Gossamer MacRISC
detected as : 48 (PowerMac G3 (Gossamer))
pmac flags : 00000000
L2 cache : 1024K unified pipelined-syncro-burst
memory : 384MB
pmac-generation : OldWorld
Memory:
384 MB
Root Device: <IDE? SCSI? Name of device?>
root is on /dev/hdg10. Swap is on /dev/hdg8. macOS is on /dev/hdg6
/dev/hdg
# type name length
base ( size ) system
/dev/hdg1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63
@ 1 ( 31.5k) Partition map
/dev/hdg2 Apple_Driver43 Macintosh 54
@ 64 ( 27.0k) Driver 4.3
/dev/hdg3 Apple_Driver43 Macintosh 74
@ 118 ( 37.0k) Driver 4.3
/dev/hdg4 Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh 512
@ 192 (256.0k) Unknown
/dev/hdg5 Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512
@ 704 (256.0k) Unknown
/dev/hdg6 Apple_HFS untitled 2097152
@ 1216 ( 1.0G) HFS
/dev/hdg7 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root 19531251
@ 2098368 ( 9.3G) Linux native
/dev/hdg8 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 1953126
@ 21629619 (953.7M) Linux swap
/dev/hdg9 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root 19531251
@ 23582745 ( 9.3G) Linux native
/dev/hdg10 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 Root-10 5859376
@ 43113996 ( 2.8G) Linux native
/dev/hdg11 Apple_Free Extra 52734377
@ 48973372 ( 25.1G) Free space
/dev/hdg12 Apple_Free Extra 113607707
@ 206565349 ( 54.2G) Free space
/dev/hdg13 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 SuZq 104857600
@ 101707749 ( 50.0G) Linux native
Block size=512, Number of Blocks=320173056
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
Drivers-
1: @ 64 for 23, type=0x1
2: @ 118 for 36, type=0xffff
Root Size/partition table: Feel free to paste the full partition
table, with notes on which partitions are mounted where.
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Motorola MPC106 [Grackle] (rev 40)
0000:00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc RTL8139
Ethernet (rev 10)
0000:00:0e.0 SCSI storage controller: Artop Electronic Corp
ATP865 (rev 06)
0000:00:0f.0 PCI bridge: Hint Corp HB6 Universal PCI-PCI bridge
(non-transparent mode) (rev 13)
0000:00:10.0 ff00: Apple Computer Inc. Heathrow Mac I/O (rev 01)
0000:00:12.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D
Rage I/II 215GT [Mach64 GT] (rev 9a)
0000:01:08.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41)
0000:01:08.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41)
0000:01:08.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 02)
0000:01:0b.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB12LV26
IEEE-1394 Controller (Link)
0000:00:00.0 0600: 1057:0002 (rev 40)
0000:00:0d.0 0200: 1186:1300 (rev 10)
0000:00:0e.0 0100: 1191:0009 (rev 06)
0000:00:0f.0 0604: 3388:0021 (rev 13)
0000:00:10.0 ff00: 106b:0010 (rev 01)
0000:00:12.0 0300: 1002:4754 (rev 9a)
0000:01:08.0 0c03: 1033:0035 (rev 41)
0000:01:08.1 0c03: 1033:0035 (rev 41)
0000:01:08.2 0c03: 1033:00e0 (rev 02)
0000:01:0b.0 0c00: 104c:8020
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked: [o]
Configure network HW: [?]
Config network: [?]
Detect CD: [o]
Load installer modules: [o]
Detect hard drives: [o]
Partition hard drives: [o]
Create file systems: [?]
Mount partitions: [o]
Install base system: [o]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Reboot: [?]
Comments/Problems:
<Description of the install, in prose, and any thoughts, comments
and ideas you had during the initial install.>
Note 1:
This machine has a SCSI Zip drive is on the apple
"mesh" scsi controller. Before the "discover disks"
phase, I had to go to the F2 console and manually
"modprobe mesh" to get it to recognize the Zip disk.
Because the mesh driver module was loaded behind
d-i's back (so to speak), d-i didn't know about it,
and as a result, "mesh" wasn't carried forward to
/etc/modules after the reboot. (see note 3)
Many (most?) oldworld PowerMac's have the "mesh"
scsi controller as their *only* (and in any case
*primary*) mass-storage interface. Failure to load
the mesh driver module will make it impossible for
inexperienced users to install Debian on their
machines. It seems to me that the mesh driver
should be loaded by default on *all* oldworld
PowerMac machines.
The problem is made more complicated because the
"mesh" chip is on the motherboard, and so doesn't
show up in the output of "lspci". This only
strengthens the argument for loading the mesh driver
by default.
Note 2:
"Select Keyboard" defaults to "European", even though
I answered all the location (US) and language
(English) questions up to then so as to indicate
that "American English" was the appropriate default.
I manually chose the "American English" keyboard
layout.
I don't know if it's related, but after the reboot,
perl and man (among others) complained about the the
locale being not supported or installed. The
/etc/environment file contained:
LANG="en"
LANGUAGE="en_GB:en_US:en"
I would have thought that "en_US" should have come
first in "LANGUAGE" and (maybe) replaced "en" as the
correct value for "LANG".
Note 3:
This machine has two ethernet interfaces. One is directly
on the motherboard and uses the "bmac" driver. It supports
10-Base-T only. The other is on a PCI card from D-link and
uses the "8139too" driver. It supports 100-Base-T. I
want to use the faster (D-link) card, and ignore the slower
(bmac) card. Every time d-i did a hardware detect phase
(both "discover network hardware" and "discover disk
hardware"), it offered to load the "bmac" driver for me.
Each time it offered, I specifically declined (un-checked
the "bmac" button on the options list). I also chose the
"D-link" card as my "primary" network interface when it
asked.
Nevertheless, after the reboot, in the /etc/modules
file, there it was -- big as life, first thing in
the file -- "bmac". Consequently, the "bmac" driver
module was loaded before the "8139too" module, and
the bmac interface was accorded status as "eth0".
DHCP failed as a result. Interestingly, there was no
mention of "8139too" in the /etc/modules file at
all. I assume it was loaded by some other mechanism
than the /etc/modules file.
When I edited /etc/modules so that the first three lines
were:
8139too
bmac
mesh
it was able to do DHCP and it was able to see my SCSI Zip
drive (see note 1).
Note 4:
When it asked which kernel to install, near the end
of the first part of the installation process, the
default was the 2.6.7 kernel, even though 2.6.8 was
available and listed among the options. I manually
chose kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc.
Note 5:
After the reboot, I told it to install the "print server"
task. Possibly as a consequence of the locale anomaly
mentioned in note 2, the setup for that task gave me the
default option of "a4" paper. I manually chose "letter", as
befits my location in the US.
Note 6:
Every time it tried to discover hardware (both "network" and
"disks") it offered me a chance to load the "floppy (Linux
Floppy)" driver. Each time I told it to go ahead (left the
relevant button checked). Each time, according to the logs,
it failed to load that driver.
During the first phase of the installation, I
attempted to mount a floppy disk, remembering my
troubles with previous tests to save log files to a
floppy. It failed. With a mac formatted (HFS)
floppy in the drive:
# mkdir /mnt
# mount -t hfs /dev/floppy/0 /mnt
mount: Mounting /dev/floppy/0 on /mnt failed: No such device
interestingly, after the reboot the floppy drive was
recognized. But there was no "/media/floppy" directory.
Isn't this the usual mount point for floppy disks?
Is it relevant that the OldWorld PowerMacs used a "swim"
floppy controller, which requires a different software
driver from the floppy controllers usually used in PCs?
Note 7:
While the partitioner was "checking" my swap
partition (why does it do that? It takes a long
time. What is actually being accomplished?) I
switched to the F2 console and looked at
"/proc/swaps". It appears that the partitioner is
checking an *active* swap partition! This is not a
problem for large memory machines, but it may be a
serious problem on a small memory machine.
Install logs and other status info is available in
/var/log/debian-installer/.
Once you have filled out this report, mail it to submit@bugs.debian.org.
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