failed Installation report for etch daily 2006/06/05 netinst on oldworld PowerPC Mac (beige g3)
Package: debian-installer
Severity: Important
This is a failed Installation report for etch daily 2006/06/05 on
oldworld PowerPC Mac (beige g3)
Installing from the Debian testing etch daily 2006/06/05 netinst
image on a beige G3 oldworld PowerPC Mac, using the BootX bootloader
from MacOS9...
I get the following messages in white on a black screen (copied off
the screen by hand -- sorry for any typos!):
Total memory = 384MB; using 1024kB for hash table (at cff00000)
Linux version 2.6.16-1-powerpc (Debian 2.6.16-10)
(waldi@debian.org) (gcc version 4.0.3 (Debian 4.0.3-1)) #2 Tue Apr
25 15:16:02 CEST 2006
Found initrd at 0xc0342000:0xc0700e6e
Found a Heathrow mac-io controller, ver:1, mapped at 0xfdf80000
PowerMac motherboard: PowerMac G3 (Gossamer)
setup_arch: bootmem
Found Grackle (MPC106) PCI host bridge at 0x80000000. Firmware bus
number: 0->1
nvram: OF partition at 0x1800
nvram: XP partition at 0x1300
nvram: NR partition at 0x1400
arch: exit
Top of RAM: 0x18000000, Total RAM: 0x18000000
Memory hole size: 0MB
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: ramdisk_size=16384 video=ofonly
irq: Found primary Apple PIC /pci/mac-io for 64 irqs
irq: System has 64 possible interrupts
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 32768 bytes)
GMT Delta read from XPRAM: -240 minutes, DST: on
time_init: decrementer frequency = 16.708033 MHz
time_init: processor frequency = 300.690000 MHz
MMU:exit
Then it hangs.
Any help will be appreciated!
Thanks,
Rick
PS: Here's where I got the .iso from...
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Index of //cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd
Name Last modified
Size
Parent Directory -
MD5SUMS 05-Jun-2006 02:17 143
debian-testing-powerpc-businesscard.iso 05-Jun-2006 02:15
58M
debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso 05-Jun-2006 02:17
167M
Apache/2.0.53 (Debian GNU/Linux) Server at cdimage.debian.org Port 80
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the MD5SUMS file contains:
b995eaf753314148b780b40f16ce1c45 debian-testing-powerpc-
businesscard.iso
aeba38af24d18e4c3aa81eec2f42cf90 debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso
and these sums match the md5 checksum of the downloaded .iso files.
PPS: Is this related to Bug#369760: "Video problems installing etch
on oldworld PowerPC Mac (beige G3)"?
If so, please don't assign it to a non-existent package again...
On June 1, 2006 4:48:08 PM EDT, owner@bugs.debian.org (presumably at
the behest of Joey Hess) wrote:
Processing commands for control@bugs.debian.org:
# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.9.20
reassign 369760 linux
Bug#369760: Video problems installing etch on oldworld PowerPC Mac
(beige G3)
Warning: Unknown package 'linux'
Bug reassigned from package `debian-installer' to `linux'.
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