Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: floppy images from
http://sprite.fr.eu.org/d-i-oldworld/floppy/
uname -a: Linux version 2.4.25-powerpc-small #1 ven mar 19 21:19:23 CET 2004
ppc GNU/Linux
Date: 2004-03-31, around noon. (and yesterday)
Method: boot-floopies, which were boot.img, root.img, net-drivers.img I tried
to install sarge and used ftp.de.debian.org as mirror. No proxy was used.
Machine: PowerMacintosh 4400/200
processor : 0
cpu : 603ev
clock : 200MHz
revision : 2.1
bogomips : 11.89
zero pages : total 0 (0Kb) current: 0 (0Kb) hits: 0/96 (0%)
machine : Power Macintosh
motherboard : AAPL,e826 MacRISC
L2 cache : 256K unified
memory : 48MB
pmac-generation : OldWorld
Root Device: ide, /dev/hda
Root Size/partition table:
/dev/hda
# type name length base ( size
) system
/dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 (
31.5k) Partition map
/dev/hda2 Apple_Bootstrap untitled 2320313 @ 64 (
1.1G) NewWorld bootblock
/dev/hda3 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 183495 @ 2320377 (
89.6M) Linux swap
Block size=512, Number of Blocks=2503872
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
Output of lspci:
00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. Bandit PowerPC host bridge (rev 03)
00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev
74)
00:10.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. O'Hare I/O (rev 01)
00:11.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 264VT [Mach64 VT] (rev
40)
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked: [o]
Configure network HW: [o]
Config network: [o]
Detect CD: [o] (only when using cd-drivers.img instead of
net-drivers.img)
Load installer modules: [o ]
Detect hard drives: [o]
Partition hard drives: [o]
Create file systems: [o]
Mount partitions: [o]
Install base system: [e]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Reboot: [ ]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
First of all: the new debian installer (and sarge) rocks! this machine is too
slow but I also tried d-i on an athlon1600, whoowhoo. Great work everyone
involved!!
Yesterday I was pointed to these floppy images
http://sprite.fr.eu.org/d-i-oldworld/floppy/, (how) are they different from
the ones avaible here:
http://people.debian.org/~luther/debian-installer/daily-powerpc-built/current/powerpc-small/floppy/
?
Installing sarge yesterday failed with the adduser-package not avaible for
download. (which wasn't true, obviously.) after that the installer wasn't
able to download a release-file, too. until I reconfigured the network (with
dhcp as before)). very strange.
So I tried to install sarge from cd (with cd-drivers.img) and also unstable
via network, the results were the same as trying to install sarge from net
(with net-drivers.img) today:
Base systems installs ok until it reaches around 70% then it fails complaining
that I try to install an initrd-kernel....
---begin_bla-----------------
You are attempting to install an initrd kernel image (version
2.4.25-powerpc-small)
This will not work unless you have configured your boot loader to use
initrd. (An initrd image is a kernel image that expects to use an INITial
Ram Disk to mount a minimal root file system into RAM and use that for
booting).
I repeat, You need to configure your boot loader -- please read your
bootloader documentation for details on how to add initrd images.
If you have already done so, and you wish to get rid of this message,
please put
`do_initrd = Yes'
in /etc/kernel-img.conf. Note that this is optional, but if you do not,
you'll continue to see this message whenever you install a kernel
image using initrd.
Do you want to stop now? [Y/n]n
---end_bla-----------------
So I installed kernel-images manuelly, called "quikconfig", edited
/etc/quik.conf so it looks like this:
---begin_bla-----------------
#root=/dev/hda2
# Generated by quikconfig
# (C) 1998 Matt McLean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
# partition=3
# map=/boot/map
timeout=20
image=/boot/vmlinux-2.4.25-powerpc-small
label=Linux
read-only
append = " initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.4.25-powerpc-small video=atyfb"
# don't know & care now, if the video-option is neccessary here...
---end_bla-----------------
and set openfirmware like this:
nvsetenv boot-device ata/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0
nvsetenv input-device kbd
nvsetenv output-device screen
nvsetenv boot-file "/boot/vmlinux-2.4.25-powerpc-small video=atyfb
initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.4.25-powerpc-small"
Booting the systems gets the following error: "VFS: Cannot open root device ""
or 08:01"
bla bla rebooting in 180seconds.
(These settings do work on woody, but I only used them without "initrd=" and
with "root="...)
regards,
Holger
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