Thank you ver much Rick, this helped me alot installing SID onto Powermac G4. Instead of Automatic Partitioning i had to choose Manual Partitioning, and where i was used to manually Partition the likes of 1 MB NewWorldBoot eg 80 GB / root Ext3/4 DebianRootDrive 4,5 GB Swap i had to insert one partition like 100 MB ext2 /boot (with bootflag YES Enabled!)then the yaboot installer would be happy after installation and things would work decently fine.
Am 07.10.17 um 23:31 schrieb Rick Thomas:
Right… So what you need to do is this: When the partitioner is done creating the setup you describe and asks if you want to write that partition scheme to disk, you have a chance to do some manual partitioning before continuing. Tell it to delete the ext4 root partition. Then choose the resulting free space and create an ext2 partition of size 500 MB or so. Make sure it is marked as bootable and mounted at /boot. This will leave you with 178GB or so of free space, which you can use to re-create the ext4 / root partition. You can write that partitioning scheme to disk and allow the rest of the installation to proceed. When you reboot after the installation, yaboot will see the ext2 /boot partition and be able to read vmlinux and initrd from it. Hope that helps! Rick PS: In case it helps, here’s what goes into which partitions: 1MB new world boot — contains the yaboot binary and a copy of yaboot.conf 500MB /boot “bootable” ext2 — contains vmlinux and initrd that will be read into RAM by yaboot. 178GB / root debian ext4 — contains your root filesystem. 1.5GB Swap — will be used as swap space by your running Debain Linux system. On Oct 7, 2017, at 6:17 AM, richard.kuenz <richard.kuenz@web.de> wrote:Hello, rick I do automatic partitining on free space It gives about 1MB newworld boot 179GB / root debian ext4 1.5GB Swap But yaboot fails afterards with Input/output error or even refuses to install Von Samsung-Tablet gesendet -------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> Datum: 07.10.2017 11:38 (GMT+01:00) An: "richard.kuenz" <richard.kuenz@web.de> Cc: Frank Scheiner <frank.scheiner@web.de>, PowerPC List Debian <debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org> Betreff: Re: PowerPC sid installation On Oct 7, 2017, at 2:03 AM, richard.kuenz <richard.kuenz@web.de> wrote:I am getting this error now with squeeze after yesterday installation succeeded after some hiccups. . .<20171007_110203_resized.jpg>When you installed, did you create an ext2 partition for /boot? If I’m understanding the error message in your screenshot correctly it looks like you took the default partition setup. Unfortunately, that setup puts the linux kernel and initrd in the root partition, which is ext4. Yaboot has trouble with some newer features of ext4 partitions. For a while those new features were disabled on powerpc machines as a temporary workaround for this problem. But it looks like that disablement is not in the installer you are using. My solution to that is to choose the “with LVM” partitioning scheme. This creates a small ext2 partition to be mounted on /boot and points yaboot at it rather than at the root ext4 partition. This /boot partition holds the vmlinux and initrd stuff. If you don’t like LVM, you can choose manual partitioning and set it up any way you want as long as you put the kernel and initrd in an ext2 partition. Hope that helps! Rick