On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 04:12:33PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 11:15:03AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > The 'install quik on a hard disk' step failed, saying that the root > > > partition had to be ext2, while I had used ext3 (the installer's > > > default). I chrooted into /target and installed quik by hand and it > > > > Known problem. We probably need some partman-oldworld or whatever which > > makes > > sure that we don't put root on ext3. Or fix quik to know about ext2. I > > wonder > > if you put /boot in a separate ext2 partition, if you can then use ext3 for > > / ? > > Some googling suggests that this is possible, but I couldn't make it > work. I just successfully installed Debian on the machine by booting > into the installer using BootX. I used the 2.6 kernel and got the > "reverse video" penguin, but once the installer started all the > colours were fine and stuff worked. > > I then backed up my MacOS partition, formatted it as ext2 and set up a > /boot/quik.conf file and installed quik on /boot. Unfortunately it > still did not work. > > > Mmm, maybe we have a bug in imsttfb ? Don't know, the strange thing would be > > if this would happen only in miboot, but not on the installed system. Will > > make tries on my oldworld machine later today here. > > It seems to be miboot-specific because it works in BootX.
Yeah, ... Friendly, Sven Luther