Re: Newbie installation questions
Hi JB,
Risto suggested the same thing - it worked, I was able to run the
installer all the way through.
I went for the default options on the whole, except I enabled Gnome.
When I try to boot into Linux now, I can do so at the boot: prompt
(though there seem to be two - the first seems to run the second without
any keypresses from me, the second requires I type 'Linux'). Then I get
pages of diagnostics, and shortly after 'Gnome' is mentioned a half
black, half white screen and no response from the keyboard, CTRL/ALT/DEL
etc - I have to hard power down. The text scrolls past too fast to see
exactly what stage this happens at.
Here are my partition maps:
Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/disk0'
#: type name length base ( size )
1: Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1
2: Apple_Bootstrap untitled 1954 @ 64
3: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled 38250001 @ 2018 ( 18.2G)
4: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 1759244 @ 38252019 (859.0M)
5: Apple_Free Extra 37 @ 40011263
Device block size=512, Number of Blocks=40011300 (19.1G)
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/disk1'
#: type name length base (
size )
1: Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1
2: Apple_Driver43*Macintosh 56 @ 64
3: Apple_Driver43*Macintosh 56 @ 120
4: Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh 56 @ 176
5: Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh 56 @ 232
6: Apple_FWDriver Macintosh 512 @ 288
7: Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh 512 @ 800
8: Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512 @ 1312
9: Apple_Free 262144 @ 1824
(128.0M)
10: Apple_HFS Apple_HFS_Untitled_2 156035392 @ 263968 (
74.4G)
11: Apple_Free 15 @ 156299360
Device block size=512, Number of Blocks=156299375 (74.5G)
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
Drivers-
1: 23 @ 64, type=0x1
2: 36 @ 120, type=0xffff
3: 21 @ 176, type=0x701
4: 34 @ 232, type=0xf8ff
Do those look sensible? I'm thinking of wiping disk0 and starting fresh
installing from CD with only the command line interface enabled.
Any help will be much appreciated.
Regards,
Geoff
PS I also get 'Disk unreadable' errors in OSX since it can't see disk0's
filesystem - but that's a minor irritation (will an /etc/fstab entry fix
that?)
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014, at 02:10 PM, gw [j] iza [b] superstar wrote:
> ...and if it doesn't find the yaboot file, also point to the exact
> location of
> the yaboot.conf for that cd
> If i remember right, it is [path]yaboot.conf
>
> e.g.
> boot cd:, /install/yaboot.conf
>
> On Tuesday 21 January 2014 15:00:24 gw [j] iza [b] superstar wrote:
> > Hi Geoff,
> > Maybe you thought of this, but now that you have burned a cd anyway,
> > at the openfirmware prompt do like:
> >
> > boot cd:, yaboot.conf
> >
> > ...then within Debian installer during the partitioning section you can
> > select the drive you want to install to, and make sure the Apple_bootstrap
> > [bootable flag on, /mac partition] is there, also
> >
> > ?
> >
> > JB
> >
> > On Friday 17 January 2014 01:57:54 Geoff Down wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > > I'm new to the list and to Linux as well, please be patient if I ask
> > > foolish questions.
> > >
> > > I'm trying to install DebianPowerPC_wheezy on a PowerMac G4 OSX10.4. It
> > > has two hard drives, so I wiped the unused one (disk0) and created an
> > > HFS partition (disk0s2) into which I copied vmlinux, initrd.gz, yaboot
> > > and yaboot.conf from
> > >
> > > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/main/installer-powerpc/curr
> > > en t/images/powerpc/hd-media/ I downloaded
> > >
> > > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.3.0/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-7.3.0-po
> > > we
> > >
> > > rpc-CD-1.iso to the root directory of my OSX hard-drive (disk1s10 I
> > > think). The md5 matches that on the website.
> > >
> > > I rebooted the Mac into the Open Firmware prompt booted from disk0
> > > using 'boot hd:2,yaboot'. That works, although there is a warning about
> > > the filesystem being HFS rather than Apple_Bootstrap. I started the
> > > installer with 'install'.
> > > When I came to the 'scan hardware for ISO image' step, it could not
> > > find the ISO on disk1 (alias sdb) - I could see it was searching the
> > > top few directories of that volume but it didn't see the ISO.
> > >
> > > So I burnt the ISO to a CD-ROM, and tried again. At the same step it
> > > failed to see the ISO when scanning automatically. I went into the shell
> > > provided and checked that there was '/dev/cdrom' listed. The output of
> > > dmesg also listed the CD-drive. The troubleshooting tip from the manual
> > > of checking /proc/ide/cdrom or whatever for settings involving DMA was
> > > not possible - there is no such directory nor any file called 'settings'
> > > under /proc.
> > >
> > > When I manually entered '/dev/cdrom' into the ISO search tool, it
> > >
> > > eventually found the ISO:
> > > '[cdrom] /dev/cdrom (stable-7.3)'
> > > which suggests to me that it can read the device ok. But when I
> > > confirmed that was the ISO I want to use, it just went back to the 'ISO
> > > not found' page.
> > > a) What am I doing wrong please?
> > > In a previous attempt I got the installer to see an ISO in a different
> > > partition *on the same hard disk* (disk0) as the installer. But I
> > > aborted that install at the partitioning stage as I assumed that the ISO
> > > image would in fact be destroyed in the partitioning process, leaving
> > > the installation hanging.
> > > b) Was I right? Or can you install from an image on the same hd?
> > >
> > > Thanks for your time,
> > > Geoff Down
>
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