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Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version:
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/20040711/sarge-powerpc-businesscard.iso
uname -a: didn't get far enough to get this...
Date: early AM EDT Saturday, July 12, 2004
Method: How did you install? What did you boot off? If network install, from where? Proxied?
used the BootX bootloader with the 2.6 kernel and initrd from the above CD image
Machine: Beige G3 (OldWorld) PowerMac minitower with SIIG Ultra ATA 133/100 Pro IDE PCI card installed
Processor: PowerPC G3
Memory: 384 MB
Root Device: hdg9
Root Size/partition table:
/dev/hdc
# type name length base ( size ) system
/dev/hdc1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 ( 31.5k) Partition map
/dev/hdc2 Apple_Driver43 Macintosh 54 @ 64 ( 27.0k) Driver 4.3
/dev/hdc3 Apple_Driver43 Macintosh 74 @ 118 ( 37.0k) Driver 4.3
/dev/hdc4 Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh 512 @ 192 (256.0k) Unknown
/dev/hdc5 Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512 @ 704 (256.0k) Unknown
/dev/hdc6 Apple_HFS untitled 2097152 @ 1216 ( 1.0G) HFS (MacOS 9.2)
/dev/hdc7 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root 19531251 @ 2098368 ( 9.3G) Linux native (not used)
/dev/hdc8 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 1953126 @ 21629619 (953.7M) Linux swap (swap)
/dev/hdc9 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root 19531251 @ 23582745 ( 9.3G) Linux native (root)
/dev/hdc10 Apple_Free Extra 277059060 @ 43113996 (132.1G) Free space
Block size=512, Number of Blocks=320173056
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
Drivers-
1: @ 64 for 23, type=0x1
2: @ 118 for 36, type=0xffff
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Motorola MPC106 [Grackle] (rev 40)
0000:00:0e.0 SCSI storage controller: Artop Electronic Corp ATP865 (rev 06)
0000:00:10.0 Class 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)
0000:00:00.0 Class 0600: 1057:0002 (rev 40)
0000:00:0e.0 Class 0100: 1191:0009 (rev 06)
0000:00:10.0 Class ff00: 106b:0010 (rev 01)
0000:00:12.0 Class 0300: 1002:4754 (rev 9a)
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: [o]
Load installer modules: [o]
Detect hard drives: [o]
Partition hard drives: [*] Note 1
Create file systems: [o]
Mount partitions: [o]
Install base system: [o]
Install boot loader: [ ] Note 2
Reboot: [e] Note 3
Comments/Problems:
1) The first time, I tried with DEBCONF_PRIORITY not set. That time, the Partition Hard Drives phase hung at 22%. I tried switching to the F2 console and doing a "ps" to see what was going on. I got a Kernel oops for my pains. That needs to be fixed.
So I went back and tried again with DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium. This time I made sure that the HFS filesystem module was loaded when I got the chance. (First time it didn't ask about loading modules due to the default priority setting.) This time around partitioning went without a hitch -- leading me to believe that the previous time it hung trying to identify my HFS partition where I keep MacOS-9 (and BootX).
2) I skipped installing the "quik" bootloader, since I was using BootX instead. Just before the reboot, I switched to the F2 console and mounted my HFS MacOS partition so I could copy the kernel and initrd images from /target/boot into the appropriate folders for later use by BootX. "initrd.img-2.6.6-powerpc" and "vmlinux-2.6.6-powerpc"...
3) After the reboot (which, of course, took me into MacOS and BootX) I told BootX to use the kernel and initrd files I had saved in the last step. I used no kernel arguments other than those necessary to make the video work.
The Linux boot failed. The last few lines of the console messages were:
initrd-tools: 0.1.70
/sbin/init: 356: cannot open bin/root: No such file
umount: bin: not mounted
/sbin/init: 358: cannot create proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev: Directory nonexistent
cat: proc/cmdline: no such file or directory
NET: Registered protocol family 1
umount: proc: not mounted
pivot_root: No such file or directory
/sbin/init: 424: cannot open dev/console: No such file
Kernel panic: attempting to kill init!
<0>Rebooting in 180 seconds..
Help?
Rick
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