Bug#274260: Successful Sarge Debian-Installation rc1 on PowerPC Beige G3 from 2.6 ofonlyboot.img boot floppy
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: RC1 (sarge-powerpc 2.6.8 kernel)
uname -a: Linux ppc 2.6.8-powerpc #1 Fri Aug 27 18:02:26 CEST 2004 ppc GNU/Linux
Date: 20040930 3:13 UTC
Method: Boot floopies downloaded from
http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/floppy-2.4/
boot images = ofonlyboot.img root.img network-drivers.img cd-drivers.img
CD = weekly iso-1 CDROM dated Sep. 20, 2004 from
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/weekly/powerpc/
deb mirrors = ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable* (see comment [3])
Machine: Power Macintosh Beige G3
Processor: PowerPC,750 rev. 2.2
/proc/cpuinfo:
processor : 0
cpu : 740/750
temperature : 31-33 C (uncalibrated)
clock : 233MHz
revision : 2.2 (pvr 0008 0202)
bogomips : 465.92
machine : Power Macintosh
motherboard : AAPL,Gossamer MacRISC
detected as : 48 (PowerMac G3 (Gossamer))
pmac flags : 00000000
L2 cache : 512K unified pipelined-syncro-burst
memory : 64MB
l2cr override : 0xa9100000
pmac-generation : OldWorld
Memory: 64MB
/proc/meminfo:
MemTotal: 61904 kB
MemFree: 31344 kB
Buffers: 1916 kB
Cached: 16180 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 17808 kB
Inactive: 5476 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 61904 kB
LowFree: 31344 kB
SwapTotal: 249992 kB
SwapFree: 249992 kB
Dirty: 4 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
Mapped: 10144 kB
Slab: 4320 kB
Committed_AS: 26960 kB
PageTables: 368 kB
VmallocTotal: 923472 kB
VmallocUsed: 10480 kB
VmallocChunk: 912472 kB
Root Device: Seagate Baracude 9GB at /dev/sda
(that's pci/mac-io/scsi/sd@0:3 to Open Firmware 2.01f)
Root Size/partition table:
df
/dev/sda3 915192 53365 812999 7% /
tmpfs 30952 0 30952 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda9 3588204 32876 3373056 1% /home
/dev/sda7 27968 1045 25431 4% /tmp
/dev/sda5 3748768 159952 3398388 5% /usr
/dev/sda6 1830418 8239 1724523 1% /usr/src
/dev/sda4 1830418 89235 1643527 6% /var
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Motorola MPC106 [Grackle] (rev 40)
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)
-n
0000:00:00.0 0600: 1057:0002 (rev 40)
0000:00:10.0 ff00: 106b:0010 (rev 01)
0000:00:12.0 0300: 1002:4754 (rev 9a)
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked: [E]
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [O]
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: [E]
Install boot loader: [E]
Reboot: [O]
Comments/Problems:
Initial boot [E]
[1] The ofonlyboot.img started but the screen image (tuxmac in the frame
buffer corner) color was messed up.
[2] The ofonlyboot.img floppy finished loading, but I had to eject it
with a paper clip. I was not prompted, but I inserted the root.img.
There were no kernel messages scrolling, but eventually, the d-i dialog
screen began.
Install base system [E]
Hope this is clear enough to _someone_.
<brainfry>
[3] A previous CD installation with this snapshot iso installs
vmlinux-2.6.7-powerpc (with no choice), rather than the 2.6.8 on the
floppy. I'm not sure exactly which kernel is used for the floppy's base
installation, (it was late) but before I got that very welcome kernel
choice, a dialog warning appeared saying no modules were found to match
the kernel. Huh?? I had selected the default, "testing", when
configuring apt. (I had earlier gotten a "bad mirror" error after my
first choice, debian.uchicago.edu, and changed mirrors.) After the
kernel modules error message, I returned to the main menu, reconfigured
the debian mirror to "unstable" and _presto_ was able to continue
without further incident. I just discovered that these mirror/version
changes did not remove the previously selected mirrors from
/etc/apt/sources.list. Look ...
/etc/apt/sources.list
#deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Sarge_ - Official Snapshot powerpc Binary-1 (20040920)]/ unstable contrib main
deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
deb http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
deb-src http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
Hey! CD reads "testing _Sarge_ ... unstable." Intuition, not experience
tells me this list isn't good, but the system seems "stable" (get it?),
even after a dist-upgrade in this state. Smarter heads than mine must
have a plan.
</brainfry>
Install boot loader [4]
background - I had used BootX to install from the same CD on the same
box, and d-i said it was installing quik boot loader, but no progress
bar; it quikly ;) bounced me back to the main menu, and there was no
message that it had installed successfully.
(see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=273986 )
This installation, we have progress bar, success message and
configuration, even a warning that Open Firmware changes might require
one to zap the PRAM. The saga continues with quik; however, because I'm
still reading how and haven't booted without BootX. But thanks to the
successful quik configuration, now I have mac-centric /proc/device-tree
to learn on.
Thanks for powerpc d-i improvements, all! Amen,
Duane
P.S There's an even more action-packed play-by-play narative of this
installation here:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2004/09/msg00650.html .
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