Re: Problems installing Debian on Powerbooks
On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 01:17:11PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 03:31:15PM -0800, Nicholas Dal Porto wrote:
> > Here's a photo of the pertinent section: http://i.imgur.com/hHZyDfg.jpg
>
> Various components and scripts load by the installer are crashing. This is
> most likely due to a broken toolchain during build. It could be related
> to PIE being enabled for the toolchain by default [1].
Or the machine has bad ram. But certainly a toolchain problem is
possible, although I would have thought others would have hit that
already if that was the case.
> Please let me know which version of Debian you were trying to install. I
> need to know the exact name and source of the ISO image and how the image
> was burnt. Please always provide this information in the future as otherwise
> it very difficult to track down the issue.
>
> However, if these specific error messages are reproducible with *any*
> version of Debian (Squeeze, Wheezy, Jessie), it's most likely a hardware
> issue and you should perform some memory and CPU testing.
Yeah testing with something else is a good idea.
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Len Sorensen
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