Bug#281878: installation-reports: Several failures with RC1 on Oldworld Powermac
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 05:43:24PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 10:17:01AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
>
> > > > Could you please provide this information ? a full lspci and lspci -n output
> > > > would be very welcome.
> > >
> > > I'll see what I can do (probably won't have time to experiment more
> > > until early next week). Do the d-i images have lspci included or will
> > > I have to find a more cunning way of getting this information?
> >
> > Just look at /proc/pci and /proc/bus/pci/devices with more.
>
> Okay. Photos at http://cp.yi.org/cameron/macboot/ - it was a bit much
> to copy out by hand.
Hehe, thanks.
> However, when I tried the install again today, the ethernet worked.
> This is very odd since it's still using the same kernel.
Ok.
> The 'install quik on a hard disk' step failed, saying that the root
> partition had to be ext2, while I had used ext3 (the installer's
> default). I chrooted into /target and installed quik by hand and it
Known problem. We probably need some partman-oldworld or whatever which makes
sure that we don't put root on ext3. Or fix quik to know about ext2. I wonder
if you put /boot in a separate ext2 partition, if you can then use ext3 for / ?
> looked like it worked. Unfortunately when the machine rebooted it
> just came up with the floppy icon with a blinking question mark :(
Ok. Normal, since quik doesn't know about ext3.
> > > > With a strange color penguin and a black background ?
> > >
> > > From memory, the colours stayed normal and the background was the grey
> > > and black one that you get when the machine boots normally with the
> > > "happy mac" icon.
> >
> > Mmm, this is different from what we were seeing. The icon kind of
> > reverse-videoed, and the machine stopped.
>
> Nope, definitely no reverse video on 2.6 boot.img or ofonlyboot.img.
>
> One thing I discovered is that if I held down Command+Option while the
> machine booted, miboot would spit out a heap of debugging information.
Cool, didn't know about this.
> I took a couple of photos of it in case it would help anyone. The
> first picture is when it's reading from the floppy and the second
> picture is where it hangs.
Ok, you have a twin turbo graphic card.
Which should be ok :
CONFIG_FB_IMSTT=y
Mmm, maybe we have a bug in imsttfb ? Don't know, the strange thing would be
if this would happen only in miboot, but not on the installed system. Will
make tries on my oldworld machine later today here.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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