From the installer menu, choose "Execute a shell". Then run the "bash" command to get a proper shell.From there, navigate to /var/log and locate the syslog file. You should be able to upload that file using the scp command.AdrianOn Mar 7, 2017, at 8:35 PM, Nicholas Dal Porto <macmaniac5@comcast.net> wrote:
How might I retrieve that?
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 7, 2017, at 11:32 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
Wait!
I don't think it's an HDD issue.
Can you try to provide the /var/log/syslog file from the installation process?
This will include the actual error messages.
Adrian
On Mar 7, 2017, at 8:07 PM, Nicholas Dal Porto <sjobsrocks@me.com> wrote:
Alright, now I'm getting a "target installation failed" on the "Install base system" phase. I think it's an issue with my HDD - I never tested it before I installed it. Going to swap in a known good one in a bit.
On Mar 7, 2017, at 8:20 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
On 03/07/2017 04:54 PM, Nicholas Dal Porto wrote:
1) did you have the original Apple hard drive and if so, how did you format it?
I actually installed it onto an external Firewire drive. I also don't think at
all that this is relevant because the firmware issues usually only existed
on MacOS itself. One of the issues was that on MacOS versions around 7.x,
Apple's own partitioning tool would refuse to partition a disk if it didn't
have Apple's original firmware. You could use a patched version of the
utility to circumvent that.
The disk itself was blank.
2) what operating system did you burn the ISO with and how
I burnt the ISO on Linux. Please refrain from using tools like unetbootin
or similar [1]. Lots of people have done that in the past and created
broken installer images.
Use a proper CD writing software and the unaltered ISO files directly
from Debian. Writing the ISO files with the software in OSX should
work fine as well. I used that in the past, too.
Adrian
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775689
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