Bug#274115: almost successful install on oldworld mac4400/200
Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: daily build floppy-2.4 power from
people.d.o/~luther, as of 29. Sep
Method: floppy-2.4, net-driver.floppy, installed unstable
Machine: Power Mac 4400/200
Processor: 603ev
Memory:48mb
Root Device: ide, hda2
0000:00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. Bandit PowerPC host bridge (rev
03)
0000:00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado]
(rev 74)
0000:00:10.0 ff00: Apple Computer Inc. O'Hare I/O (rev 01)
0000:00:11.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 264VT [Mach64 VT]
(rev 40)
processor : 0
cpu : 603ev
clock : 200MHz
revision : 2.1 (pvr 0007 0201)
bogomips : 133.12
machine : Power Macintosh
motherboard : AAPL,e826 MacRISC
detected as : 47 (Unknown OHare-based)
pmac flags : 00000000
L2 cache : 256K unified
memory : 48MB
pmac-generation : OldWorld
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]
Detect CD: [ ]
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: [O]
Reboot: [E]
Comments/Problems:
The install went fine - the only remaining problem is dealing with quiks
quirks with this model (see
http://penguinppc.org/bootloaders/quik/quirks.php)
I used these commands to make my machine boot.
nvsetenv boot-device ata/ata-disk@0:0
nvsetenv boot-file ata/ata-disk@0:0/boot/vmlinux-2.4.27-powerpc
nvsetenv input-device kbd
nvsetenv output-device screen
nvsetenv boot-command boot
It should be possible to deal with some of quiks quirks by detecting the
machine type based on /proc/cpuinfo (combination of "cpu", "detected as" and
possible others should be sufficient - we "only" would need to collect that
data..), based on this the nvram could be set to the right values in quiks
postinst.
regards,
Holger
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