"Fabrice Lorrain (home)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > First try: using an USB floppy drive... > Doesn't seem to be supported. Might be nice if it were > written in the "woody install manual".
Hmm, yah, talk to Chris Tillman. > 2nd try: network boot > hmmm, boot enet doesn't work, some google search + reading, > works with "boot enet:0" --> patch in "install manual" ? > It seems I didn't find the right image to load through > tftp (dhcp + tftp + logs + tcpdump everything was find) > but I keep getting a freeze in openboot during the tftp. > What image am I suppose to use? Chris was working on the netboot documentation. It should be improved now I think, I'm not sure if that work was done. I don't know offhand, but I have installed newworld powermacs this way before. > 3rd try: yaboot > Last just because I though a had only hfs+ partitions. > Did some reading in d-powerpc, and I didn't get a clear > picture about yaboot booting over hfs+. Is it supported > or not ? Sorry, I don't know. Not being very helpful here... :) > Problems on the console during the boot: > S20modutils, depmod -a seg fault on appletalk.o (bunch of Bad symbol). Really? Can you install the latest kernel-image-2.2.20-powermac or whatever kernerl images and recheck this? > reboot, boot through yaboot, mount /dev/hdbwhatever /target, chroot > /target. > base-config, answer a bunch of question (no tasksel, no dselect) > everythg > seems ok, but at the end base-config keep telling me that one > package failed to install. Retry --> no. Leaving base-config give > me the following message on the console : > "hostname --fqdn gave non-zero exit code 11" > > Now these are the logs in /var/log/installer.log (top to bottom) > (side note 1: what are you guys using to read that f*** file ??) > " base-config: line 42: 216 Seg fault apt-get clean" > (yeah, apt-get seg fault on whatever parameter) > "Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at > /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Format/822.pm line 57" > I got that message all over the log almost after each menu of > base-config. > After the ppp menu, I've the following line : > base-config: 40apt-setup exit with return code 139. Sounds liike serious disk corruption. Try booting with 'hda=noautotune' or some such option. I've seen this problem on PowerPC before. > This is where I stand for so far ;-) > Following a mail in d-powerpc I also move /etc/inittab.real over > /etc/inittab at some time yesterday. Ew. > Any clue what's going on ?? Is it just me or the installation is > completly broken ?? It's you or your hardware + the kernel not getting along. > Last remark, I didn't find fsck on the rescue disk. Any reason ? Try e2fsck. -- ...Adam Di Carlo..<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...<URL:http://www.onshored.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
