I have reconfirmed that this bug still occurs using the Official Sarge CD-ROM #1 image built 4/28/2004, downloaded via jigdo.
I also tried the same installation using the 4/30/2004 netinst CD from the installer archive folder, and it works as expected. Here are the kernel packages available on CD #1: kernel-package: kernel-package_8.086_all.deb kernel-patch-2.4.20-apus: kernel-headers-2.4.20-apus_2.4.20-1_powerpc.deb kernel-image-2.4.20-apus_2.4.20-1_powerpc.deb kernel-patch-2.4.22-powerpc: kernel-modules-2.4.22-powerpc-small_2.4.22-13_powerpc.deb kernel-modules-2.4.22-powerpc-smp_2.4.22-13_powerpc.deb kernel-modules-2.4.22-powerpc_2.4.22-13_powerpc.deb kernel-patch-2.4.25-apus: kernel-headers-2.4.25-apus_2.4.25-2_powerpc.deb kernel-image-2.4.25-apus_2.4.25-2_powerpc.deb kernel-image-apus_2.4.25-2_powerpc.deb kernel-patch-2.4.25-powerpc: kernel-image-2.4.25-power3-chrp_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb kernel-image-2.4.25-power4-chrp_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-prep_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-small-pmac_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-smp-prep_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb kernel-modules-2.4.25-power3_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb kernel-modules-2.4.25-power4_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb kernel-modules-2.4.25-powerpc-small_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb kernel-modules-2.4.25-powerpc-smp_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb kernel-modules-2.4.25-powerpc_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb Here are the kernel packages on the netinst CD: kernel-patch-2.4.25-apus: kernel-image-2.4.25-apus_2.4.25-2_powerpc.deb kernel-patch-2.4.25-powerpc: kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-chrp-rs6k_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-chrp_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-pmac_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-prep_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-small-pmac_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb kernel-modules-2.4.25-powerpc-small_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb kernel-modules-2.4.25-powerpc_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb Here is the diff between the two: --- netinst.list 2004-05-07 20:58:22.000000000 +0000 +++ sarge-1.list 2004-05-07 20:58:15.000000000 +0000 @@ -1,11 +1,28 @@ +kernel-package: +kernel-package_8.086_all.deb + +kernel-patch-2.4.20-apus: +kernel-headers-2.4.20-apus_2.4.20-1_powerpc.deb +kernel-image-2.4.20-apus_2.4.20-1_powerpc.deb + +kernel-patch-2.4.22-powerpc: +kernel-modules-2.4.22-powerpc-small_2.4.22-13_powerpc.deb +kernel-modules-2.4.22-powerpc-smp_2.4.22-13_powerpc.deb +kernel-modules-2.4.22-powerpc_2.4.22-13_powerpc.deb + kernel-patch-2.4.25-apus: +kernel-headers-2.4.25-apus_2.4.25-2_powerpc.deb kernel-image-2.4.25-apus_2.4.25-2_powerpc.deb +kernel-image-apus_2.4.25-2_powerpc.deb kernel-patch-2.4.25-powerpc: -kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-chrp-rs6k_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb -kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-chrp_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb -kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-pmac_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb +kernel-image-2.4.25-power3-chrp_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb +kernel-image-2.4.25-power4-chrp_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-prep_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-small-pmac_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb +kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-smp-prep_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb +kernel-modules-2.4.25-power3_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb +kernel-modules-2.4.25-power4_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb kernel-modules-2.4.25-powerpc-small_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb +kernel-modules-2.4.25-powerpc-smp_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb kernel-modules-2.4.25-powerpc_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb The correct kernel for my machine, kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-pmac_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb, is only available on the netinst image. There are really two corrections necessary: 1) CD #1 needs to get up to speed 2) the installer should never install a completely inappropriate kernel Because #2 occurs, I believe the severity of this bug should be moved back to critical. I'm not changing the severity, because I'm not involved with installer development now. But if people around the world try to install Sarge on newworld Macs and their machine becomes a) unbootable and b) unrecoverable with the CD they burned, they are really gonna be pissed. Remember, newworld Macs have no floppies. There is really no recovery path using that machine, if they've formatted the disk; the user would have to burn a better CD on another machine to get his machine back. We should not release an installer that is capable of this. I'll just mention at the end here that the installer is really top notch now, it installed the base system without a hitch and I didn't have one clue that anything was wrong until yaboot installation barfed with 'Failed to mount /proc'. The underlying problem was yabootconfig being unable to find a bootable kernel in /boot. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]