Bug#272624: marked as done (No HFS driver, and "change install priority" menu option missing -- and other bugs found while testing 2.4 boot floppies on OldWorld PowerMac)
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has caused the Debian Bug report #272624,
regarding No HFS driver, and "change install priority" menu option missing -- and other bugs found while testing 2.4 boot floppies on OldWorld PowerMac
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Package: installation-reports
In addition to the already noted problems with 2.4 PowerPC boot
floppies, I have two requests for modules to be included on the
root or root-2:
1) The "change installation priority" menu item should be available
*very* early in the install process. Best would be immediately
after loading the root-2. Currently, it is not available up thru
partitioning, at least.
2) The "hfs" and "hfsplus" (MacOS filesystem formats) filesystem
modules should be available early on. This would make it much
easier to save log files to a floppy or a zip disk. Also, they are
*required* for support of booting with BootX, so that the kernel
and initrd can be copied from /target/boot/ to the appropriate
place on the MacOS partition prior to the reboot.
For the sake of completeness, here's a list of the other things
I've found that currently don't work about the 2.4 powermac boot
floppies:
3) Country chooser is called before loading root-2, so it hangs
trying to do a "grep US" on a file that is on root-2, but should be
on root.
4) the "ofonlyboot" floppy never switches to text-mode screen. It
reads and ejects the boot floppy. But, since the text mode screen
never appears, it's impossible to proceed further. This happens on
both my test machines, the beige G3 tower, and the 6500.
5) It never finds my disk. It gets all the way to partitioner
without loading either the "mesh" driver or the driver for my PCI
IDE controller card.
For the record, I do not have any of these problems with installing
via BootX using the latest businesscard CD. Of course, for
problems 3 and 4 this is a trivial statement.
Also for the record, these problems occur when using the
"net-drivers" floppy. I have not tried to use the "CD-drivers"
floppy.
I would consider problems 3 and 5 to be "show stoppers".
Life would be *much* easier if 1 and 2 were fixed.
Since the "boot" floppy works on my hardware, I consider problem 4
to be lower priority than the rest -- though others, for whom the
"boot" floppy doesn't do the job, may reasonably disagree.
Enjoy!
Rick
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We are closing this installation report for one of the following
reasons:
- it was reported with a pre-lenny version of Debian
Installer.
- indications in the installation report give the feeling that
the reported problem waslying in another software, unrelated to
D-I, which we can't easily identify.
- indications in the installation report suggest that it may have been
fixed in a more recent version of a D-I component
- it was successful and we forgot closing it..:-)
- it has no information we consider useful
The D-I team is currently in the process of cleaning out the old spool
of installation reports that haven't bene processed yet.
In case you think that the problem you reported has chances to be
still present, please reiterate your installation test with
a more recent image of D-I, if you're in position of doing this.
You'll find daily builds at
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer. We recommend you choose
the netboot image, in the "daily builds section", then choose to
install "squeeze" when prompted.
If some problems are found, please report them with a new bug sent
against installation-reports.
Many thanks for your understanding and your help improving Debian,
past and present.
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