Bug#281878: installation-reports: Several failures with RC1 on Oldworld Powermac
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 04:12:33PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 11:15:03AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
>
> > > 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 / ?
>
> Some googling suggests that this is possible, but I couldn't make it
> work. I just successfully installed Debian on the machine by booting
> into the installer using BootX. I used the 2.6 kernel and got the
> "reverse video" penguin, but once the installer started all the
> colours were fine and stuff worked.
>
> I then backed up my MacOS partition, formatted it as ext2 and set up a
> /boot/quik.conf file and installed quik on /boot. Unfortunately it
> still did not work.
>
> > 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.
>
> It seems to be miboot-specific because it works in BootX.
Yeah, ...
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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