Bug#257478: installation-report: PowerMac G4
clone 257478 -1 -2 -3
reassign -1 debian-installer
retitle -1 want proper powerpc hd-media installer image
severity -1 wishlist
reassign -2 base-installer
retitle -2 install powerpc SMP kernels if applicable (careful of breaking subarchitectures!)
severity -2 wishlist
reassign -3 partman-basicfilesystems
retitle -3 swap partition not added to /etc/fstab
thanks
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 01:55:44PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> /dev/hda
> # type name length base ( size ) system
> /dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 ( 31.5k) Partition map
> /dev/hda2 Apple_Bootstrap untitled 1954 @ 64 (977.0k) NewWorld bootblock
> /dev/hda3 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled 311578126 @ 2018 (148.6G) Linux native
> /dev/hda4 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 1001664 @ 311580144 (489.1M) Linux swap
[...]
> Comments/Problems:
> The install boot loader step didn't work. I got around this by going
> to a virtual console and running mkofboot myself.
Judging from the size of /dev/hda3, this is the df-on->=100GB problem,
fixed in trunk by Martin Michlmayr but not released. I've just uploaded
yaboot-installer 0.0.26 containing this fix; a test install in a few
days would be appreciated, as my PowerBook doesn't have a disk big
enough to test this myself.
> * want proper hd-media installer image
I can't remember if we talked about this on IRC, but how about the
netboot images? All you need to add to that is a suitable yaboot and
yaboot.conf.
> * RAID1 is hopeless
I've never tried it. What's broken?
> * want SMP kernels at install time
Can you send me your /proc/cpuinfo?
The main problem with this is that it will stress the already enormously
full powerpc CD #1 even further. In order to be able to omit -smp
kernels from CD #1, we'll need a good fallback mechanism which doesn't
fall over (e.g. install apus kernels by mistake) when confronted with
subarchitectures, which I think means that I need to finish off my
base-installer rewrite.
> * ugh, this is distressing. d-i created a swap partition but did not
> construct /etc/fstab such that it would be mounted (the swap
> partition did not appear at all).
partman-basicfilesystems/fstab.d/basic *looks* right ... perhaps you
could send /var/log/debian-installer/syslog to the cloned bug? It should
have a dump of the partition table somewhere in it.
Thanks,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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