Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-04-09
Test of updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-04-09 on a
PowerMac G5 11,2.
CD image booted from USB stick as before [1].
Expert install started from yaboot.
Fan were spinning loudly but loading the proper module stopped them as
previosly described [1].
The "network-console" installer component was loaded. Doing so I noticed
that there was no "hfs" component in the list anymore.
The "partition disk" step at first did not work, then, when called a
second time, the partitioning interface started.
Created a new mac partition table. This time the "newworld" partition
type was an option. I ended up creating manually the following partition
table:
SCSI4 (0,0,0) (sdc) - 163.9 GB ATA Maxtor 6L160M0
> #1 32.3 kB Apple
> #2 20.0 MB B K boot bootstrap
> #3 512.0 MB f ext2 boot /boot
> #4 1.0 GB f swap swap swap
> #5 162.4 GB f ext4 root /
> 512.0 B FREE SPACE
Base system installed fine.
Debian ports mirrors [2] manually added.
A minimal software selection was installed comprising "standard system
utilities" and "SSH server" only.
This time I switched "popularity contest" on.
Grub installation failed again with:
"An installation step failed. You can try to run the failing item again
from the menu, or skip it and choose something else. The failing step
is: Install the GRUB boot loader on a hard disk"
On the log window I can see:
Apr 10 09:56:15 main-menu[5707]: (process:20056): dpkg-divert: warning:
diverting file '/sbin/start-stop-daemon' from an Essential package with
rename is dangerous, use --no-rename
Apr 10 09:56:15 main-menu[5707]: (process:20056): dpkg-divert: warning:
diverting file '/sbin/start-stop-daemon' from an Essential package with
rename is dangerous, use --no-rename
Apr 10 09:56:15 main-menu[5707]: (process:20056): /usr/bin/grub-installer:
Apr 10 09:56:15 main-menu[5707]: (process:20056): line 252:
Apr 10 09:56:15 main-menu[5707]: (process:20056):
/usr/lib/grub-installer/mkhfs-bootstrap.sh: Permission denied
Apr 10 09:56:15 main-menu[5707]: (process:20056):
Apr 10 09:56:15 main-menu[5707]: WARNING **: Configuring
'grub-installer' failed with error code 1
Apr 10 09:56:15 main-menu[5707]: WARNING **: Menu item 'grub-installer'
failed.
Opened a shell and saw:
~ # ls -l /usr/lib/grub-installer
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 68032 Apr 7 21:31 ensure-active
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2610 Apr 5 21:03 mkhfs-bootstrap.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 67888 Apr 7 21:31 prep-bootdev
So, as suggested [3] I changed permissions of mkhfs-bootstrap.sh to 755.
But it failed again with the same error shown on the installer. On the
log I see:
Apr 10 10:09:05 main-menu[5707]: INFO: Falling back to the package
description for brltty-udeb
Apr 10 10:09:06 main-menu[5707]: INFO: Falling back to the package
description for brltty-udeb
Apr 10 10:09:06 main-menu[5707]: INFO: Menu item 'grub-installer' selected
Apr 10 10:09:06 grub-installer: info: architecture: ppc64/powermac_newworld
Apr 10 10:09:07 in-target: Reading package lists...
Apr 10 10:09:07 in-target:
Apr 10 10:09:07 in-target: Building dependency tree...
Apr 10 10:09:07 in-target:
Apr 10 10:09:07 in-target: Reading state information...
Apr 10 10:09:07 in-target:
Apr 10 10:09:09 in-target: grub-common is already the newest version
(2.02+dfsg1-16).
Apr 10 10:09:09 in-target: 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove
and 0 not upgraded.
Apr 10 10:09:10 in-target: Reading package lists...
Apr 10 10:09:10 in-target:
Apr 10 10:09:10 in-target: Building dependency tree...
Apr 10 10:09:11 in-target:
Apr 10 10:09:11 in-target: Reading state information...
Apr 10 10:09:11 in-target:
Apr 10 10:09:12 in-target: grub-common is already the newest version
(2.02+dfsg1-16).
Apr 10 10:09:12 in-target: 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove
and 0 not upgraded.
Apr 10 10:09:12 mkhfs-bootstrap: The HFS bootstrap partition couldn't be
found. Cannot continue! Exiting.
Apr 10 10:09:12 main-menu[5707]: (process:20538): dpkg-divert: warning:
diverting file '/sbin/start-stop-daemon' from an Essential package with
rename is dangerous, use --no-rename
Apr 10 10:09:12 main-menu[5707]: (process:20538): dpkg-divert: warning:
diverting file '/sbin/start-stop-daemon' from an Essential package with
rename is dangerous, use --no-rename
Apr 10 10:09:12 main-menu[5707]: (process:20538): cat: can't open
'/var/lib/partman/devices/=dev=sdb/32768-1033215/method': No such file
or directory
Apr 10 10:09:12 main-menu[5707]: WARNING **: Configuring
'grub-installer' failed with error code 1
Apr 10 10:09:12 main-menu[5707]: WARNING **: Menu item 'grub-installer'
failed.
At this time, I stopped the installation.
Did I partitioned my drive in the wrong way?
That was the same layout I always use with yaboot.
I am thinking that it could be worth to try the same install but with
the default partitioning scheme.
I the meantime I am open for suggestions.
A few wishes for the next releases:
1. Would it be possible to load the fan spinning module (windfarm_core)
automatically?
2. Would it be possible to have debian-ports URL [2] as default mirror?
Regards
A.
[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2019/04/msg00070.html
[2] ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/
[3] https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2019/04/msg00093.html
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