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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: Install report: 12Ã" PowerBook G4 1.33Ghz
- From: Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org>
- Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 12:48:28 +0200
- Message-id: <20060618104828.5007.57038.reportbug@country.grep.be>
Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal
I couldn't find the install-report template on my hard disk (maybe I'm
not looking at the right place; it used to be in /root, but it's not
there now), so I'm doing things manually.
Since Colin's dailies are slightly outdated right now (about a week
old), I ran the daily-build script myself (the result is at
http://people.debian.org/~wouter/d-i, FTWCA dailies), wrote the mini.iso
to a DVD-RW (yeah, I know), and booted off of that.
The installation went fine up to the point where I tried to use LVM
rather than a "regular" install partition; I could create a physical
volume in the partman interface, but when I tried to create a volume
group with that one, the LVM interface would quit, and I would be dumped
back in the "regular" partman interface. After I'd changed the partition
type from being an LVM PV to an XFS filesystem, the installation went
on.
The reboot didn't work, however. The first message I got was one of
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
RAMDISK: incomplete write (-28 != 32768) 8388608
at which point it failed to go on. I tried booting with a different
kernel (the one of my already-installed unstable system), but the initrd
of that one apparently ignores root= kernel command line parameters, so
it didn't help much. I also tried booting with the parameter
'ramdisk_size=20000' (if I tried 10000, it failed a bit further on), but
then the system would complain that it could not find root on
"unknown-device(0,0)".
I have, thus, not been able to boot the freshly-installed system.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-powerpc
Locale: LANG=nl_BE.ISO-8859-15@euro, LC_CTYPE=nl_BE.ISO-8859-15@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
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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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