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- To: submit@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Net Install, no boot from hard drive using BootX.
- From: R Charles Flickinger <idlewild@designersdomain.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 04:14:36 -0700
- Message-id: <F654CBD6-3A55-4FB3-89D5-2AA2FA257F97@designersdomain.com>
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: <8/22/05 GNU/Linux 3.1r0 (sarge) netinst CD
image>
uname -a: <[i never got this far, i am certain]>
Date: <8/22/05 all day, numerous attempts>
Method: <Attempted to boot from hard drive using BootX>
Machine: <Apple "Wallstreet" Powerbook>
Processor: PowerPC G3
Memory: 192MB
Root Device: <Internal ATA MacOS/Preferred LinuxPPC>
Root Size/partition table: <Never saw any of the other volumes I
initialized with Drive Setup, only the Mac one, set for 800MB>
Output of lspci and lspci -n: no idea what you are asking here. :(
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
[ ] = (don't know whether I tried or not, but tried all day.)
Initial boot worked: [ ]
Configure network HW: [ ]
Config network: [ ]
Detect CD: [ ]
Load installer modules: [ ]
Detect hard drives: [ ]
Partition hard drives: [ ]
Create file systems: [ ]
Mount partitions: [ ]
Install base system: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Reboot: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
I cannot locate the files described in section 4.5.1 of the
Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide to be placed in the BootX "Linux
Kernels" folde:
"Download linux.bin and ramdisk.image.gz from the disks-powerpc/
current/powermac folder, and place them in the Linux Kernels folder."
<After trying to understand this for all day and night, at least 12
hours, I don't think I want to use this OS, or recommend it to
anyone. It's easier to spend money on stuff that just works. The
wall I ran into was not being able to locate "disks-powerpc/current/
powermac" folder either on the ftp site or within the iso image, so
I'm stuck and can't proceed on to Chapter 5 of the installation
guide. I was successful at one point, watching the kernel try to
start, but it kept choking on "root=" (using BootX) and I tried
leaving that blank, entered "hd0" and "hd1". Nothing worked, I
guess, because root couldn't be opened. It is not clear whatI'm
supposed to do here to make this work. If you can help, I will try
again, but I'm already having doubts about the virtues of working
with Linux. Sorry, but maybe you can help me feel better about
this. Windows users must dislike Windows an awful lot to want to try
fighting with these installs to get Linux running on their hardware.
Had no idea it was that bad for them.>
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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
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