failed Installation report for etch beta2 on oldworld PowerPC Mac (beige g3)
Package: debian-installer
Installing from the Debian testing beta2 netinst image on a beige G3
oldworld PowerPC Mac, using the BootX bootloader from MacOS9...
Everything went just fine until it came time to reboot. (copied by
hand from the screen, so forgive any inaccuracies!):
Begin: Mounting root file system ... ...
Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ...
/scripts/local-top/lvm: 36 vgchange: not found
Done.
i8042.c: No controller found
FATAL: Error inserting i8042 (/lib/modules/2.6.8-powerpc/kernel/
drivers/input/serio/i8042.ko): No such device
ALERT! does not exist: Dropping to a shell!
Here are the hardware details, incase it matters...
debian:~# ( lspci ; lspci -n ) | sort
0000:00:00.0 0600: 1057:0002 (rev 40)
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Motorola MPC106 [Grackle] (rev 40)
0000:00:0d.0 0200: 1186:1300 (rev 10)
0000:00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc RTL8139 Ethernet
(rev 10)
0000:00:0e.0 0100: 1191:0009 (rev 06)
0000:00:0e.0 SCSI storage controller: Artop Electronic Corp ATP865
(rev 06)
0000:00:0f.0 0604: 3388:0021 (rev 13)
0000:00:0f.0 PCI bridge: Hint Corp HB6 Universal PCI-PCI bridge (non-
transparent mode) (rev 13)
0000:00:10.0 ff00: 106b:0010 (rev 01)
0000:00:10.0 ff00: Apple Computer Inc. Heathrow Mac I/O (rev 01)
0000:00:12.0 0300: 1002:4754 (rev 9a)
0000:00:12.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage
I/II 215GT [Mach64 GT] (rev 9a)
0000:01:08.0 0c03: 1033:0035 (rev 41)
0000:01:08.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41)
0000:01:08.1 0c03: 1033:0035 (rev 41)
0000:01:08.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41)
0000:01:08.2 0c03: 1033:00e0 (rev 02)
0000:01:08.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 02)
0000:01:0b.0 0c00: 104c:8020
0000:01:0b.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB12LV26
IEEE-1394 Controller (Link)
debian:~#
debian:~# mac-fdisk -l /dev/hde
/dev/hde
# type name length
base ( size ) system
/dev/hde1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @
1 ( 31.5k) Partition map
/dev/hde2 Apple_Driver43 Macintosh 54 @
64 ( 27.0k) Driver 4.3
/dev/hde3 Apple_Driver43 Macintosh 74 @
118 ( 37.0k) Driver 4.3
/dev/hde4 Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh 512 @
192 (256.0k) Unknown
/dev/hde5 Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512 @
704 (256.0k) Unknown
/dev/hde6 Apple_HFS untitled 6144000 @
1216 ( 2.9G) HFS
/dev/hde7 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root 19531251 @
6145216 ( 9.3G) Linux native
/dev/hde8 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 1953126 @
25676467 (953.7M) Linux swap
/dev/hde9 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 beta2 19531251 @
27629593 ( 9.3G) Linux native
/dev/hde10 Apple_Free Extra 113675636 @
47160844 ( 54.2G) Free space
Block size=512, Number of Blocks=160836480
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
Drivers-
1: @ 64 for 23, type=0x1
2: @ 118 for 36, type=0xffff
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