Package: installation-reports
Boot method: CD
Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r2/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-40r2-powerpc-netinst.iso
Date: 2008-01-26 15:00 UTC+1100
Machine: Apple Powermac G5
Processor: 2×PowerPC
Memory: 2 GiB
Partitions: n/a, 2×500GB SATA HDDs
Output of lspci -nn and lspci -vnn: n/a
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [O]
Detect network card: [O]
Configure network: [ ]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [E]
Install base system: [ ]
Clock/timezone setup: [ ]
User/password setup: [ ]
Install tasks: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Overall install: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
* At yaboot prompt, selected 'install64'
* Not currently connected to network, so DHCP network config failed
(expected)
* partman correctly detects existing partitions
* On re-installing after a failed attempt, partman continues to
detect partition changes from the previous installation attempt
* Tried multiple partitioning systems (rebooting after each one
fails): guided on one disk, guided on a RAID device, guided with LVM
on one disk, guided with LVM on a RAID device.
* partman shows generated partition scheme on /dev/foo (where
/dev/foo is the corresponding disk device being attempted)
* On selecting "Finish partitioning and write changes to disk",
partman shows (where /dev/foo_p1 is the first partition device on
the corresponding disk device):
Error informing the kernel about modifications to partition
/dev/foo_p1 -- Invalid argument. This means Linux won't know
about any changes you made to /dev/foo_p1 until you reboot -- so
you shouldn't mount it or use it in any way before rebooting.
ERROR!!!
* Selecting "Ignore" shows the same dialogue message for all other
partitions that were generated by partman
* virtual console 4 shows:
kernel: ioctl32(parted_server:23148): Unknown cmd fd(9) cmd(41a04403){01} arg(ffa30938) on /dev/foo
* The partitioning then fails because the filesystems cannot be
created.
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Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au>
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