Re: New ppc64 installer image available -- installation test report
Hi Rick!
Thanks for your detailed feedback, this is very appreciated.
On 09/25/2017 09:08 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
The partitioner no longer complains about not knowing which partitioning scheme to use, which is good news.
As I expected and also verified with my POWER7 VM.
However the partitioning scheme used by “guided — use whole disk" doesn't produce an HFS+ "bootstrap" partition or an ext2 "/boot" partition.
I created the two missing partitions manually, and let it proceed to the “pick a repo mirror” stage.
Ok, this confirms that we need to use the partition recipes for powerpc
on ppc64 in partman-auto. I will work on this.
It required me to enter the ports mirror manually. I did so.
Yes, I have not looked yet into choose-mirror. Let's focus on the partitioning
and bootloader installation first.
It then proceeded to tasksel. I requested a minimal system plus ssh server.
Ok.
It then proceeded without incident and installed yaboot, which seemed to go fine.
Ok.
However the reboot timed out looking for its root partition.
I tried booting to “rescue” mode using the above CD. While it booted OK, it went into regular install mode — not rescue mode.
We can put this onto the TODO list. This is most likely something
that needs to be addressed in debian-cd.
I used an earlier CD which went into rescue mode OK.
Hmm. Ok. Do you know when this CD was generated?
After some poking around, I found that the trouble was a bad UUID in the /etc/yaboot.conf file.
I can’t be sure, but it may have used a UUID from a previous iteration of the install.
In any case, I corrected the UUID and ran ybin.
Could you maybe try to confirm this? I will create an updated image with
a fixed partman-auto in any case.
It booted and gave me a login prompt.
Ok.
Next step is to install Grub and see what that gives.
This will be very interesting.
Thanks for testing!
Adrian
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