Bug#379365: Semi-successful install with miBoot floppy set and Netinst CD on OldWorld Mac...
Package: installation-reports
Installation on (OldWorld) PowerMac beige G3 (Gossamer) using miBoot
floppies and netinst CDrom.
INSTALL REPORT
| Debian-installer-version: <Fill in date and from where you got the
image>
|
| Debian etch daily powerpc netinst install CD iso dated "21-Jul-2006
01:57 166MB"
uname -a: <The result of running uname -a on a shell prompt>
| Linux debian 2.6.15-1-powerpc #2 Mon Mar 6 12:39:17 CET 2006 ppc
GNU/Linux
Date: <Date and time of the install>
Jul 22 13:27 EDT
Method: How did you install? What did you boot off? If network
install, from where? Proxied?
| Booted from miBoot floppy set at:
|
| Index of /~wouter/d-i/powerpc-miboot/daily/powerpc/floppy
|
| [1]Name [2]Last modified [3]Size
[4]Descripti
| on
| _______________________________________________________________
|
| [DIR] [5]Parent Directory 27-Jun-2006 22:08 -
| [ ] [6]boot.img 21-Jul-2006 11:28 1.4M
| [ ] [7]cd-drivers.img 21-Jul-2006 11:28 1.3M
| [ ] [8]net-drivers.img 21-Jul-2006 11:28 1.4M
| [ ] [9]ofonlyboot.img 21-Jul-2006 11:28 1.4M
| [ ] [10]root.img 21-Jul-2006 11:28 1.4M
| ________________________________________________________
|
|
| Apache/1.3.33 Server at people.debian.org Port 80
Machine: <Description of machine (eg, IBM Thinkpad R32)>
OldWorld PowerMac beige G3 (Gossamer)
Processor:
| debian:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
| processor : 0
| cpu : 740/750
| temperature : 39-41 C (uncalibrated)
| clock : 300MHz
| revision : 2.2 (pvr 0008 0202)
| bogomips : 600.06
| 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:
debian:~# cat /proc/meminfo
| MemTotal: 385476 kB
| MemFree: 23988 kB
| Buffers: 37572 kB
| Cached: 235876 kB
| SwapCached: 0 kB
| Active: 194276 kB
| Inactive: 137832 kB
| HighTotal: 0 kB
| HighFree: 0 kB
| LowTotal: 385476 kB
| LowFree: 23988 kB
| SwapTotal: 296460 kB
| SwapFree: 296312 kB
| Dirty: 28 kB
| Writeback: 0 kB
| Mapped: 91444 kB
| Slab: 22596 kB
| CommitLimit: 489196 kB
| Committed_AS: 153752 kB
| PageTables: 1468 kB
| VmallocTotal: 596556 kB
| VmallocUsed: 4172 kB
| VmallocChunk: 591900 kB
Root Device: <IDE? SCSI? Name of device?>
| 6.4 GB IDE disk connected to the Mac's onboard IDE controller as
master on second channel (/dev/hdc)
Root Size/partition table: Feel free to paste the full partition
table, with notes on which partitions are mounted where.
| debian:~# mac-fdisk -l /dev/hdc
| /dev/hdc
| # type name length
base ( size ) system
| /dev/hdc1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @
1 ( 31.5k) Partition map
| /dev/hdc2 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled 62501 @
64 ( 30.5M) Linux native
| /dev/hdc3 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled 11939454 @
62565 ( 5.7G) Linux native
| /dev/hdc4 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 592941 @
12002019 (289.5M) Linux swap
|
| Block size=512, Number of Blocks=12594960
| DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
| debian:~# df -ma
| Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
| /dev/hdc3 5739 2394 3053 44% /
| proc 0 0 0 - /proc
| sysfs 0 0 0 - /sys
| usbfs 0 0 0 - /proc/bus/usb
| tmpfs 189 0 189 0% /dev/shm
| devpts 0 0 0 - /dev/pts
| /dev/hdc2 29 20 8 72% /boot
| /dev/hde6 3000 396 2605 14% /MacOS
| tmpfs 10 1 10 2% /dev
| debian:~# cat /etc/fstab
| # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
| #
| # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
| proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
| /dev/hdc3 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro
0 1
| /dev/hdc2 /boot ext2 defaults 0 2
| /dev/hdc4 none swap sw 0 0
| /dev/hda /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
| /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
debian:~# ( lspci -n ; lspci ) | sort
| 00:00.0 0600: 1057:0002 (rev 40)
| 00:00.0 Host bridge: Motorola MPC106 [Grackle] (rev 40)
| 00:0d.0 0200: 1186:1300 (rev 10)
| 00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc RTL8139 Ethernet
(rev 10)
| 00:0e.0 0100: 1191:0009 (rev 06)
| 00:0e.0 SCSI storage controller: Artop Electronic Corp ATP865 (rev 06)
| 00:0f.0 0604: 3388:0021 (rev 13)
| 00:0f.0 PCI bridge: Hint Corp HB6 Universal PCI-PCI bridge (non-
transparent mode) (rev 13)
| 00:10.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. Heathrow Mac I/O (rev 01)
| 00:10.0 ff00: 106b:0010 (rev 01)
| 00:12.0 0300: 1002:4754 (rev 9a)
| 00:12.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage I/
II 215GT [Mach64 GT] (rev 9a)
| 01:08.0 0c03: 1033:0035 (rev 41)
| 01:08.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41)
| 01:08.1 0c03: 1033:0035 (rev 41)
| 01:08.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41)
| 01:08.2 0c03: 1033:00e0 (rev 02)
| 01:08.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 02)
| 01:0b.0 0c00: 104c:8020
| 01:0b.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB12LV26 IEEE-1394
Controller (Link)
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked: [e/o] note 1
Configure network HW: [o] note 2
Config network: [o]
Detect CD: [o]
Load installer modules: [o]
Detect hard drives: [e/o] note 3
Partition hard drives: [e/o] note 3
Create file systems: [o]
Mount partitions: [o]
Install base system: [o]
Install boot loader: [e] note 4
Reboot: [o] note 5
Comments/Problems:
<Description of the install, in prose, and any thoughts, comments and
ideas you had during the initial install.>
| note 0:
| The network drivers image was too large to fit on a 1.4-meg
floppy. I wrote as much as would fit, which seems to have been
enough for this time around. See note 2 for more on this.
|
| Would it be possible to split the network drivers floppy into two
pieces?
|
| note 1:
| Booting from the "ofonlyboot" floppy had video problems. The
screen showed the tuxmac icon in normal colors while the boot floppy
was read in. Then, at the end of reading the boot floppy, the colors
went all wonky and the tuxmac icon (in funny colors) remained on the
screen -- none of the expected text. On a hunch, I manually ejected
(with a a straightened paperclip) the ofonlyboot floppy and inserted
the root floppy, then hit return. It read the root floppy, but still
did not go to a text screen. Just the funny colored tuxmac icon.
Without a text mode screen I saw no point in proceeding. So...
|
| I rebooted and tried the "boot" floppy. The screen showed the
normal tuxmac icon and when it finished loading, it changed to the
text screen asking that I insert the root floppy. I had to manually
eject the boot floppy and fed it the root floppy. After that things
went pretty much as expected. Except, of course, for the fact that
I still had to manually eject each of the floppies in order to feed
it the next one.
|
| It's worth noting that the text screen, when present, is not
perfect. Some columns flicker. On the whole it's readable, though.
It would be really nice to be able to experiment with various video
parameter settings on the kernel bootstrap command line. Maybe I
could find one that was actually "right" for this particular
machine. Even better would be if the ofonly boot floppy worked.
That would be "right" (or at least not completely wrong) for all
oldworld machines.
|
| note 2:
| I used the built-in 1- Mbit "bmac" ethernet interface. (Is that
compiled-in to the kernel on the boot floppy? in any case, it
worked.) Next time around I'll try to use the D-Link interface,
which is faster (100 Mbit) But it may need to get it's driver from
the missing part of the net drivers floppy...
|
| note 3:
| It detected both of my hard drives, but...
|
| When I went to the manual partition screen, it was missing all the
partitions on my large disk (/dev/hde). I think this is related to
another bug (Bug#378593: D-I partition manager unable to see one of
two Macintosh partition tables) that I reported earlier with regards
to this same machine.
|
| note 4:
| It refused to install the quik bootloader because it claimed "Root
partition not on first disk". This must be some odd meaning of
"first" that I'm not aware of. The boot partition is /dev/hdc2. The
CD-drive is /dev/hda and there is no /dev/hdb. It seems to me that
this makes /dev/hdc the first disk.
|
| note 5:
| In any case, I switched to "plan B" and finished the installation,
then rebooted using BootX from MacOS9. Everything was more or less
normal from here on.
Install logs and other status info is available in /var/log/debian-
installer/.
| I'll hang onto the log files for a while. Let me know if you want
to see them.
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