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Bug#295996: marked as done (boot.img and cd-drivers.img (powerpc) report error against cmp)

Your message dated Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:57:53 +0000
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and subject line Closing old installation report #295996
has caused the Debian Bug report #295996,
regarding boot.img and cd-drivers.img (powerpc) report error against cmp
to be marked as done.

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Package: installation-reports

Debian-installer-version: 
yesterday, February 18th, 2005,  I installed sid with the oldworld 
2.4-floppies (boot, root, net-drivers) downloaded from 
http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/2005-02-18/powerpc/floppy-2.4/

Method: floppies with net-drivers.img with proxy using ftp.de.debian.org as 
mirror and installing sid. 

Machine: Power Macintosh 7200/90
Memory: 32mb
Root Device: scsi hd, 1gb

with mace network controller and mac53c94 scsi-controller. (can give detailed 
lspci-output and other logs if required - to lazy to boot the slow and noisy 
machine now...)

Base System Installation Checklist:

Initial boot worked:    [O] 
Configure network HW:   [O]
Config network:         [O] 
Detect CD:              []
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives:     [O]
Partition hard drives:  [O]
Create file systems:    [O]
Mount partitions:       [O]
Install base system:    [O] kernel 2.4.27 worked, 2.6.8 not - see below
Install boot loader:    [O] manual fix was needed - see below
Reboot:                 [O]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Comments/Problems:

1. If i write the root.img on disk and compare the disk with the image I get 
an error, but the disk is ok:
dd if=root.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024 conv=sync ; sync ; cmp /dev/fd0 root.img
1378+1 records in
1379+0 records out
cmp: EOF on root.img
[this paragraph is quoted from an report of mine from 2004-05-25, but it's 
still true... if wonder what's happening here. imho this bugreport should be 
cloned and this issue should be tracked+solved.]

2. svenl told me on irc that this floppy install uses sid udebs. when rc3 gets 
released somewhere these floppies should be made available as rc-builds. 
(they can't be part of the official builds because they require miboot.)

3. in the beginning of the installation I was prompted to enter the keyboard 
type : usb or none. (I don't remember the exact wording as I didn't take a 
note on this immediatly - can do if wanted.) the pmac 7200 has no usb at all 
and uses a adb-keyboard... I choose usb (was curios what whould happen) and 
all went well... 

4. at the end of base-install a long list of kernels was prompted and 
kernel-image-2.4.27-powerpc-pmac was preselected. I was a little confused to 
find 2.6.9 in that list as well...

5. installing kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc (v. 2.6.8-10) failed with "no 
do_initrd=yes in /etc/kernel.img.conf" :-(

(Supplying this and with a fixed quik.conf (see below and also add initrd=...) 
this kernel-image works as well.)

6. installing kernel-image-2.4.27-powerpc-pmac worked well.

7. then I choose quik in main-menu and a IMHO to scary text was shown: "do you 
really want to install quik ?" with the default answer being "no". The IMHO 
scary worded text told me the this wasnt tested very well. although being 
true, people how choose quik, most often have no other choice and therefore 
shouldn't be scared so much. but the real fix I guess is not finding better 
wordings but is fixing the situation and then removing the text. and the real 
bug is that although i choose to install quik the pre-selected answer to 
"install quik" is no.

8. I choose yes and /etc/quik.conf was generated but contained a wrong line: 
image=/boot/vmlinuz whereas the right  line would be 
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-powerpc
[I guess this bug should be cloned again and assigned to quik]

After changing this and running quik again I choose reboot and the rest of the 
installation continued without problems.


regards,
 Holger

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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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