Bug#604134: ppc: after debian installation MacOS 9.2 won't recognize disk anymore
It looks like installer creates MacOS 9 incompatible partition table, but which works fine with MacOS X and Linux. After partitioning a disk using default settings with MacOS X installer CD I installed MacOS X on its third partition and MacOS 9 on its second partition. Then: - booted the machine using squeeze testing installer cd and backed up partition table to a memory stick. - installed squeeze testing by manually removing the first HFS+ partition and then letting Guided partitioning to use the largest continuous free space. - rebooted into squeeze and observed that it works fine, it can mount and use all partitions - rebooted into MacOS X and observed that it also works fine, able to mount and use the partition containing MacOS 9 installation - rebooted into MacOS 9: - firmware finds the partition - loads MacOS 9 - MacOS 9 displays a small disk with a blinking question mark, not being able to find any partition - reboot into squeeze again - restore partition table from the memory stick - reboot into MacOS 9, it works fine - reboot into MacOS X, it works fine Hope this helps. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Bug#604134: ppc: after debian installation MacOS 9.2 won't recognize disk anymore
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. -- Please make sure that the hardware-summary log file, and any other installation logs that you think would be useful are attached to this report. Please compress large files using gzip. 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
Bug#604134: ppc: after debian installation MacOS 9.2 won't recognize disk anymore
reassign 604134 yaboot-installer thanks Quoting wit...@lnxnt.org (wit...@lnxnt.org): 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. If there's a surviving powerpc porter, hopefully signature.asc Description: Digital signature
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Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: reassign 604134 yaboot-installer Bug #604134 [installation-reports] ppc: after debian installation MacOS 9.2 won't recognize disk anymore Bug reassigned from package 'installation-reports' to 'yaboot-installer'. thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. -- 604134: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=604134 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/handler.s.c.129027180314736.transcr...@bugs.debian.org
Bug#604134: ppc: after debian installation MacOS 9.2 won't recognize disk anymore
I did further investigations if other people had similar problems, and indeed the problem occured several times. For example in 2008 here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2008/05/msg00047.html So it seems to be a common issue. But the solution which worked for José, and Samy back than, do not work in my case/with the latest test image. It's not that the different volumes are not activated/unmounted, it is that the entire hard disk, with all partitions, appears as not initialized! Maybe it is the same complex of problems - just a little bit more complicated now, as the Debian partitioning tool advanced? If so, it is maybe not too much work to fix this, and prevent users from beeing unable to have a dualboot system and loosing in unexpected ways the MacOS 9 installation? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/911fcae405305d9da8e0d690dd2a4788.squir...@mail.lnxnt.org
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Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: clone 604134 -1 Bug#604134: ppc: after debian installation MacOS 9.2 won't recognize disk anymore Bug 604134 cloned as bug 604192. reassign -1 os-prober Bug #604192 [yaboot-installer] ppc: after debian installation MacOS 9.2 won't recognize disk anymore Bug reassigned from package 'yaboot-installer' to 'os-prober'. retitle -1 os-prober: Won't detect MacOS 9 Bug #604192 [os-prober] ppc: after debian installation MacOS 9.2 won't recognize disk anymore Changed Bug title to 'os-prober: Won't detect MacOS 9' from 'ppc: after debian installation MacOS 9.2 won't recognize disk anymore' severity -1 important Bug #604192 [os-prober] os-prober: Won't detect MacOS 9 Severity set to 'important' from 'critical' affects -1 yaboot-installer Bug #604192 [os-prober] os-prober: Won't detect MacOS 9 Added indication that 604192 affects yaboot-installer thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. -- 604192: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=604192 -1: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=-1 604134: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=604134 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/handler.s.c.129031541229714.transcr...@bugs.debian.org
Bug#604134: ppc: after debian installation MacOS 9.2 won't recognize disk anymore
clone 604134 -1 reassign -1 os-prober retitle -1 os-prober: Won't detect MacOS 9 severity -1 important affects -1 yaboot-installer thanks I can confirm that os-prober takes a look at hfsplus partition containing MacOS 9, but won't report installed MacOS 9. Cloning to os-prober. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
