Bug#375208: ppc oldworld miboot-floppies daily-build status

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 03:02:27PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
> I tested the daily-build from 
> http://people.debian.org/~cjwatson/d-i/powerpc-miboot/2006-06-21/powerpc/floppy/
> on an oldworld powermac 4400 with lowmen (48mb IIRC) and noticed some problems 
> and a failed installation.

http://people.debian.org/~wouter/d-i/powerpc-miboot/ now.

> Next problem was the auto-partioning, in Partition disks: it defaults to 
> floppy :(

This should be fixed by the sorting change in partman-base 88:

partman-base (88) unstable; urgency=low

  * Sort /dev/hd* and /dev/sd* to the top of the list of devices to open,
    along with /dev/ide/* and /dev/scsi/*.
  * definitions.sh (humandev): Handle /dev/loop* as well as /dev/loop/*.

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 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:57:44 +0100

> Then the installation runs without problems until quik-installer, this
> ends with an error because /boot is on a seperate partition (though quik 
> supports it, the error-msg (typed not copied) is: "the quik bootloader 
> requires /boot to be on the same partition as /"

There's a TODO note about this in quik-installer. Could you try editing
/var/lib/dpkg/info/quik-installer.postinst before quik-installer runs
and removing this if block to see if everything then runs smoothly?

if [ "$boot_devfs" != "$root_devfs" ]; then
    # TODO: Is this still required, now that we put kernel symlinks in
    # /boot?
    die quik-installer/boot_not_on_root '/boot not on /'
fi

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]