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Re: debian netinst 2020-04-18 claims No space left on device



On 4/19/20 3:34 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> Apr 19 01:14:56 in-target:  cannot copy `/usr/lib/grub/powerpc-ieee1275/gcry_rijndael.mod' to `/boot/grub/powerpc-ieee1275/gcry_rijndael.mod': No space left on device
> 
> Looking at the hfs boot partition I see that it is 1MB in size and can
> not be made larger it seems.
> 
> A greater surprise was that the grub boot loader was being copied into
> the tiny hfs partition area and not the 2GB ext2 /boot partition that I
> created :

Parts of the GRUB boot loader must be copied onto the HFS boot partition
otherwise, the firmware won't find it.

> SCSI2 (0,0,0) (sda) - 300.1 GB ATA ST3300622AS
> #1     32.3 kB                    Apple
> #2      1.0 MB  B  K  boot        untitled
> #3      2.0 GB        ext2        boot
> #4     16.0 GB     F  swap        swap      swap
> #5     64.0 GB        ext4        local
> #6    218.1 GB        ext4        root
>        25.1 kB        FREE SPACE
> 
> I attached the installer syslog.

Thanks.

It might just be that we will have to increase the size of the HFS boot
partition as GRUB requires for disk space these days.

Not sure though whether the partition is allowed to be larger by the
firmware.

@Frank: Opinions?

Adrian

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