On 11/9/20 11:45 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:On 11/10/20 4:51 AM, Stan Johnson wrote:Thanks for creating the 9 Nov 2020 CD. I was able to use that CD to install Debian SID on a PPC Cube (G4) from an external Firewire CD drive. ... The installation proceeded normally, except that the installation of GRUB failed (perhaps I need to create an HFS filesystem on my Apple_Bootstrap partition first?).It would have been very nice if you had send me the installation log so we could have found out what the actual problem with grub-installer was. Now it's only wild guessing. ...See /var/log/installer/* on the installed system [1]. Post what's in there on the list. ok, thanks I re-installed Debian SID on the PPC Cube from the 09 Nov 2020 CD. After the GRUB installation failure, I see that there is a /var/log/partman and a /var/log/syslog, but no /var/log/installer/. These appear to be the relevant lines in syslog (but I'm also attaching the syslog file in case it turns out to be helpful). $ fgrep -i grub syslog Nov 10 09:29:25 anna[2818]: DEBUG: retrieving grub-installer 1.173+mac Nov 10 09:29:28 anna[2818]: DEBUG: retrieving grub-mount-udeb 2.04-10 Nov 10 16:46:35 in-target: linux-doc-5.9 debian-kernel-handbook mkvmlinuz grub-ieee1275 Nov 10 17:14:21 main-menu[225]: INFO: Menu item 'grub-installer' selected Nov 10 17:14:21 grub-installer: info: architecture: powerpc/powermac_newworld Nov 10 17:14:46 in-target: multiboot-doc grub-emu xorriso desktop-base fuse Nov 10 17:14:46 in-target: grub-common libfreetype6 libfuse2 libpng16-16 os-prober Nov 10 17:14:49 in-target: Get:4 cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 10.0.0 _Sid_ - Unofficial powerpc NETINST with firmware 20201109-20:16] sid/main powerpc grub-common powerpc 2.04-10 [2,651 kB] Nov 10 17:14:59 in-target: Selecting previously unselected package grub-common. Nov 10 17:14:59 in-target: Preparing to unpack .../grub-common_2.04-10_powerpc.deb ... Nov 10 17:14:59 in-target: Unpacking grub-common (2.04-10) ...^M Nov 10 17:15:04 in-target: Setting up grub-common (2.04-10) ... Nov 10 17:15:21 in-target: grub-common is already the newest version (2.04-10). Nov 10 17:15:58 main-menu[225]: WARNING **: Configuring 'grub-installer' failed with error code 1 Nov 10 17:15:58 main-menu[225]: WARNING **: Menu item 'grub-installer' failed. There were also many CD errors reported in syslog, but they do not appear to be serious (no errors were reported during the installation other than GRUB). I've already confirmed that the CD was downloaded and written correctly. Other information that may be helpful: # mac-fdisk -l /dev/sda # type name length base ( size ) system /dev/sda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 ( 31.5k) Partition map /dev/sda2 Apple_Driver43 Macintosh 56 @ 64 ( 28.0k) Driver 4.3 /dev/sda3 Apple_Driver43 Macintosh 56 @ 120 ( 28.0k) Driver 4.3 /dev/sda4 Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh 56 @ 176 ( 28.0k) Unknown /dev/sda5 Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh 56 @ 232 ( 28.0k) Unknown /dev/sda6 Apple_Bootstrap Apple_Bootstrap 131072 @ 288 ( 64.0M) NewWorld bootblock /dev/sda7 Apple_HFS MacOS 4194304 @ 131360 ( 2.0G) HFS /dev/sda8 Apple_HFS Tiger 33554432 @ 4325664 ( 16.0G) HFS /dev/sda9 Apple_HFS Leopard 41943040 @ 37880096 ( 20.0G) HFS /dev/sda10 Apple_HFS Users 117440512 @ 79823136 ( 56.0G) HFS /dev/sda11 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 Debian_7 8388608 @ 197263648 ( 4.0G) Linux native /dev/sda12 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 Debian_sid 16777216 @ 205652256 ( 8.0G) Linux native /dev/sda13 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 Gentoo 20971520 @ 222429472 ( 10.0G) Linux native /dev/sda14 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 2097152 @ 243400992 ( 1.0G) Linux swap /dev/sda15 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 data 22937311 @ 245498144 ( 10.9G) Linux native /dev/sda16 Apple_Free Extra 44146352 @ 268435455 ( 21.1G) Free space Block size=512, Number of Blocks=312581807 DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0 Drivers- 1: @ 64 for 23, type=0x1 2: @ 120 for 36, type=0xffff 3: @ 176 for 21, type=0x701 4: @ 232 for 34, type=0xf8ff The installation went to /dev/sda12, with /dev/sda14 as swap and /dev/sda6 as the Apple Bootstrap partition. -Stan Johnson |
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