Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images
Hello!
On 3/26/22 04:06, Stan Johnson wrote:
> My installation attempt using CD [2] above on a PowerBook G3 Pismo (500
> MHz; 2 GiB memory) failed.
>
> 1) I started with a blank 120 GB disk. I partitioned the disk to include
> partitions (after the Apple drive partitions) for Apple_Bootstrap
> (/dev/sda6; 10 MiB), Mac OS 9 (/dev/sda7; 1 GiB), Mac OS X (/dev/sda8; 7
> GiB), Debian rootfs (/dev/sda9; 16 GiB), and swap (/dev/sda10; 2 GiB) --
> I left the rest of the disk un-partitioned.
You are missing the HFS partition that gets mounted to /boot/grub. You
either used one of the older, broken images or you ignored the warning
during partitioning that a system without /boot/grub won't be able to
boot.
> 2) The installation CD booted and GRUB worked. I chose a default
> installation with manual partitioning, using the partitions I set up in
> step 1. Everything worked as expected until GRUB installation, which
> failed. The error message was that GRUB failed to install on /dev/sda9
> (the rootfs, not the Apple_Bootstrap, partition).
What image did you use?
> 3) In step 2, I thought it might have failed because my Apple_Bootstrap
> partition could have been too small, so I tried the installation again,
> choosing a default installation using the entire disk with only the
> default partitions. The resulting sizes were approximately as follows:
> Apple_Bootstrap (/dev/sda2; 256 MB); Debian rootfs (/dev/sda3; ~115
> GiB); and swap (/dev/sda4; ~768 MB). So this Apple_Bootstrap was
> certainly larger than the one I used in step 1, and I was optimistic
> that everything would work. But GRUB installation failed again, with the
> error message that "grub-install /dev/sda3" failed. Even if this had
> worked, it appears that I would have lost the Apple drivers needed to
> boot Mac OS 9.
GRUB does not use the Apple_Bootstrap partition. It uses an HFS filesystem
that gets mounted to /boot/grub. You cannot get a bootable system without
that partition.
> 4) Booting into rescue mode on the installation CD, I was also not able
> to install GRUB on the Apple_Bootstrap partition directly (e.g. after
> step 3, I tried "grub-install /dev/sda2"). The error message was that
> the partition was not a partition of type PReP.
It's because GRUB is not installed onto the Apple_Bootstrap partition.
PReP partitions are used on IBM machines among other systems but not
on Apple machines.
> Please let me know of anything else that I could try.
What image did you use? Please reference the URL.
And if you used the correct image, what steps did you perform? Did you
run in expert mode? I could imagine that expert mode turns off all
warnings and therefore it didn't tell you when your manual partitioning
resulted in an unusable partition layout.
Adrian
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