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Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-04-20



Hi Roberto,

On 4/26/19 17:33, roberto.guardato wrote:
Hi Adrian,
i tried
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2019-04-20/debian-10.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso
on Mid-2004 - M9457LL/A - PowerMac7,3 - A1047 - 1969C.
installation media is on CF card using a CF to Ide adapter, boot
pressing 'c' key at chimes sound.

I wasn't aware that these type 7,3 G5s still had an IDE port.


Performing a normal install cdrom device must be selected manually
(/dev/sda);
80gb hdd detected ad sdb, using default partition scheme - > use full
disk with all files in a single partition;
manually selected debian-ports;

Installation stops at grub install with following error:
Apr 26 14:05:28 main-menu[219]: (process:11323): mount: mounting
/dev/sdb on /target/boot/grub failed: Device or resource busy

here is part of the syslog :
...
Apr 26 14:05:20 mk-hfs-bootstrap: HFS bootstrap partition found: /dev/sdb
[...]
Apr 26 14:05:27 in-target: Initialized /dev/sdb as a 76293 MB HFS volume
Apr 26 14:05:27 anna-install: Installing hfs-modules
Apr 26 14:05:28 mk-hfs-bootstrap: Mounting HFS bootstrap partition
failed! Cannot continue. Exiting.
Apr 26 14:05:28 main-menu[219]: (process:11323): dpkg-divert: warning:
diverting file '/sbin/start-stop-daemon' from an Essential package with
rename is dangerous, use --no-rename
Apr 26 14:05:28 main-menu[219]: (process:11323): dpkg-divert: warning:
diverting file '/sbin/start-stop-daemon' from an Essential package with
rename is dangerous, use --no-rename
Apr 26 14:05:28 main-menu[219]: (process:11323): dpkg-divert: warning:
diverting file '/sbin/start-stop-daemon' from an Essential package with
rename is dangerous, use --no-rename
Apr 26 14:05:28 main-menu[219]: (process:11323): dpkg-divert: warning:
diverting file '/sbin/start-stop-daemon' from an Essential package with
rename is dangerous, use --no-rename
Apr 26 14:05:28 main-menu[219]: (process:11323): mount: mounting
/dev/sdb on /target/boot/grub failed: Device or resource busy

Not sure how you got `mk-hfs-bootstrap.sh` to detect the whole disk as
the HFS bootstrap partition, because in your used ISO it should still
require three partition settings at the same time (partition bootable,
method newworld used for partition, designated mount point is
`/boot/grub`). It uses the info created by the partitioning step, so for
whatever reason the partitioning step must have configured the whole
drive as bootable, with method newworld and `/boot/grub` as mount point.

Can you post the partition layout of /dev/sdb?

For this you can restart a "normal" mode installation and forward until
the configure network step. Then change to a console and issue `cat
/proc/partitions` and also `partmap /dev/sdb`.

The full syslog of the original failing installation would have been
also helpful, because it could maybe explain what happended during the
partitioning step.

Cheers,
Frank


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