Package: installation-reports
Severity: critical
Tags: d-i
Justification: breaks unrelated software (other OS on same computer)
We did a clean new installation of MacOS 9.2.2, and subsequent the next
step for setting up a dualboot system. We created 3 partitions with MacOS 9
(1 Linux with 71GB, two hfs+ 30GB) - the Linux partition was first on the
disk, that's what the d-i manual recommends. Then we used the Debian
netinstaller (default mode) to remove the Linux partition, because yaboot
needs it's own extra partition. Then we let the installer do the automatic
Linux partitioning for beginners, on the now empty space.
The Debian installation worked flawlessly and all data are recognized from
within debian (even the Mac OS data).
However after rebooting the system, yaboot only found the debian installation
but didn't know anything about the Mac OS 9 system present on the same hard
drive. We manually added the Mac OS installation to yaboot.conf, which kind of
worked (yaboot indeed switches to open firmware) but the Mac OS installation
appears destroyed (the disk symbol with the blinking question mark).
Next step was to reboot from MacOS 9 CD and see what the partitioning
tool from MacOS can tell. Nothing. Laufwerke Konfigurieren (a German
system - can't remember the English name for the partitioning tool)
reports a not formatted IDE disc.
As said above all MacOS 9 data are accessable from Debian, but it seems to us
Debian partitioning tool is killing the non afflicted MacOS 9 partitions for
MacOS 9. We don't know how to get our MacOS 9 system back. People who try to
install Debian not at a seperat hard disk will get serious problems, as they
not only have no dualboot system - they even would have no MacOS anymore and a
kind of complete dataloss, ...
Please let us know if we can help with further information. Also any hints
how to get our MacOS installation back working without reinstalling (and
thus killing Debian) would be appreciated.
-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: CD
Image version:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso
Date: Fre Nov 19 16:43:35 CET 2010
Machine: Macintosh PPC G4 @1.4 GHz
Partitions: df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred
dr...@g414:~$ df -Tl
Dateisystem Typ1K#8208;Blöcke Benutzt Verfügbar Ben% Eingehängt auf
/dev/hda12ext370154660 3691936 62899056 6% /
tmpfstmpfs 256508 0256508 0% /lib/init/rw
udev tmpfs 251548 220251328 1% /dev
tmpfstmpfs 256508 0256508 0% /dev/shm
dr...@g414:~$
The MacOS Volumes were hda10 and hda11.
We guess the yaboot-partition is hda9
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [O]
Detect network card:[O]
Configure network: [O]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [E]
Install base system:[O]
Clock/timezone setup: [O]
User/password setup:[O]
Install tasks: [O]
Install boot loader:[E]
Overall install:[E]
Comments/Problems:
On the Partition hard drives error:
After partitioning the hard drive in d-i, the open firmware and the
MacOS installation CDROM both did not recognize any volumes anymore.
Thus rendering the system unuseable.
On the Install boot loader: d-i failed to setup the bootloader in way
that the other OS can be loaded. This works for other platforms/OS, so
we see no obvious reason why that shouldn't work on ppc/MacOS 9 too.
See above for a detailed description of how we used the installer.
--
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Once you have filled out this report, mail it to sub...@bugs.debian.org.
==
Installer lsb-release:
==
DISTRIB_ID=Debian
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=Debian GNU/Linux installer
DISTRIB_RELEASE=6.0 (squeeze) - installer build 20101119-00:04
X_INSTALLATION_MEDIUM=cdrom
==
Installer hardware-summary:
==
uname -a: Linux G414 2.6.32-5-powerpc #1 Sat Oct 30 23:26:42 UTC 2010 ppc
GNU/Linux
lspci -knn: :00:0b.0 Host bridge [0600]: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth AGP
[106b:0020]
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: agpgart-uninorth
lspci -knn: :00:10.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc
Radeon R200 QL [Radeon 8500 LE] [1002:514c]
lspci -knn: Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R200 QL [Radeon 8500 LE]
[1002:514c]
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: radeonfb
lspci -knn: 0001:10:0b.0 Host bridge [0600]: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth PCI
[106b:001f]
lspci -knn: 0001:10:0d.0 PCI
