Bug#99185: Problem installing Potato on an Amiga 1200

[peter karlsson]

> Anyhow, even if you don't want to actually re-install or whatever, you
> can at least boot with the 3.0.x install system and get far enough
> (without initializing or anything) just to check to see if it can find
> your partitions.  Should be non-destructive.

I can't get it to work. My severely limited AmigaOS skills won't get me
to get the StartInstall script startable (I thought "protect
StartInstall rwe" would do the trick), but anyway, if I run the command
listed in the file (the amiboot-5.6 thing), I get error messages:

kan ej finna objektet  (that's: cannot find object)
CD failed: returncode 20


I downloaded the amigainstall.tar.gz file and untarred it on a
directory on my WB disk. Do I need to do more? My old install guide for
potato only lists that file and base2_2.tgz, but that one is obviously
not needed for woody.

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Re: Bug#99185: Problem installing Potato on an Amiga 1200

[peter karlsson]

Me, on 2001-06-04:

> > > Well, as I said, the installer doesn't find the partition, so it can't
> > > initialize it.
> > Can you initialize it by hand?
> I can run mke2fs and mount it on /target manually from VC2, and this is
> accepted by the installer, even though it believes I do not have any
> partitions...
>
> Now to get it to find my network card, 2.2.19 gave an error with that,
> I have to try the newer version.

I tried the other package as given, and it did find the network card
and continued the installation, neither of the versions did, however,
recognize my partitions, so I had to mount the manually before I could
do the installation.

The thing is currently installting the tasks I selected in tasksel, so
it seems to work.

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Bug#99185: Problem installing Potato on an Amiga 1200

[peter karlsson]

Christian T. Steigies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> > Well, as I said, the installer doesn't find the partition, so it can't
> > initialize it.
> Can you initialize it by hand?

I can run mke2fs and mount it on /target manually from VC2, and this is
accepted by the installer, even though it believes I do not have any
partitions...

Now to get it to find my network card, 2.2.19 gave an error with that,
I have to try the newer version.

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Bug#99185: Problem installing Potato on an Amiga 1200

[Christian T. Steigies]

On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 07:17:10AM +0200, peter karlsson wrote:
> > It does format them for you, I think the step is called initiali(s|z)e a
> > linux partition. This one should be called before trying to mount the
> > filesystems, did you do that?
> 
> Well, as I said, the installer doesn't find the partition, so it can't
> initialize it.
Can you initialize it by hand?

Christian


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Bug#99185: Problem installing Potato on an Amiga 1200

[peter karlsson]

> It does format them for you, I think the step is called initiali(s|z)e a
> linux partition. This one should be called before trying to mount the
> filesystems, did you do that?

Well, as I said, the installer doesn't find the partition, so it can't
initialize it.

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Bug#99185: Problem installing Potato on an Amiga 1200

[Christian T. Steigies]

On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 10:54:31PM +0200, peter karlsson wrote:
> > Now since this version did not work either for Peter, can you mount the
> > linux partion by hand in the installer? Maybe it is not formatted yet?
> 
> I haven't formatted it yet -- I was hoping the installer would do that
> for me :-)
It does format them for you, I think the step is called initiali(s|z)e a
linux partition. This one should be called before trying to mount the
filesystems, did you do that?

> I can mount the Amiga partition (that's how I got the fdisk and dmesg logs
> out of the program).
We are not talking about amiga partitions here are we? After all you want to
install on an ext2fs partition. Try formatting your linux partition from
inside the installer 9or by hand if that does not work) and then mount them,
from inside the installer or by hand.

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Bug#99185: Problem installing Potato on an Amiga 1200

[peter karlsson]

> Now since this version did not work either for Peter, can you mount the
> linux partion by hand in the installer? Maybe it is not formatted yet?

I haven't formatted it yet -- I was hoping the installer would do that
for me :-) I can mount the Amiga partition (that's how I got the fdisk
and dmesg logs out of the program).

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Bug#99185: Problem installing Potato on an Amiga 1200

[Christian T. Steigies]

On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 12:58:59PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> "Christian T. Steigies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Maybe you can try the "experimental" boot-floppies (I thought I had uploaded
> > them long ago?). Link is on my potato page, but this should work:
> > auric.debian.org/~cts/bf
> 
> What changes, if any, would there be in that version?
It was a newer source (2.2.21 IIRC) and maybe a different kernel (2.2.17). I
definetely did a testinstall with that version and a mac user is recommnding
that version when people have problems with their macs. That wont help on an
amiga though, but it ought to work on amigas.

Now since this version did not work either for Peter, can you mount the
linux partion by hand in the installer? Maybe it is not formatted yet?
I guess if you can mount it by hand under /target you can continue the
installation (just as a short term fix)?

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Re: Bug#99185: Problem installing Potato on an Amiga 1200

[Ethan Benson]

On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 06:41:39PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> > Christian T. Steigies:
> > 
> >> Maybe you can try the "experimental" boot-floppies (I thought I had uploaded
> >> them long ago?). Link is on my potato page, but this should work:
> >> auric.debian.org/~cts/bf
> >
> > The installer says the same things "There are no Linux swap partitions"
> > and "There are no Linux native partitions", even though
> > fdisk and /proc/partitions list all partitions properly.
> 
> By any chance, could this be the problem where the swap partition must be
> *named* swap? That's true for PowerPC partitions.
> 
> Also, pdisk (which underlies mac-fdisk) has been updated a great deal since
> the version which is in the debian distribution. You could try the newer
> version, from

amigas don't use apple partition tables.  

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Re: Bug#99185: Problem installing Potato on an Amiga 1200

[Matt Kraai]

On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 06:41:39PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> > Christian T. Steigies:
> > 
> >> Maybe you can try the "experimental" boot-floppies (I thought I had uploaded
> >> them long ago?). Link is on my potato page, but this should work:
> >> auric.debian.org/~cts/bf
> >
> > The installer says the same things "There are no Linux swap partitions"
> > and "There are no Linux native partitions", even though
> > fdisk and /proc/partitions list all partitions properly.
> 
> By any chance, could this be the problem where the swap partition must be
> *named* swap? That's true for PowerPC partitions.
> 
> Also, pdisk (which underlies mac-fdisk) has been updated a great deal since
> the version which is in the debian distribution. You could try the newer
> version, from
> 
> 
> 
> We might want to consider updating if it works better.

The partition detection code is in libfdisk, which is included in
the boot-floppies package.  The file in question is probably
partbl_amiga.c.  It is taken from the kernel source (or else it is
remarkably similar).  Perhaps something was lost in the
translation, though since Amiga installs have presumably worked in
the past this is doubtful.

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Re: Bug#99185: Problem installing Potato on an Amiga 1200

[peter karlsson]

Chris Tillman:

> By any chance, could this be the problem where the swap partition must be
> *named* swap? That's true for PowerPC partitions.

Well, the partitions are tagged with "LNX\0" and "SWP\0", as they
should. The amiga-fdisk program did that for me.

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Re: Bug#99185: Problem installing Potato on an Amiga 1200

[Chris Tillman]

> Christian T. Steigies:
> 
>> Maybe you can try the "experimental" boot-floppies (I thought I had uploaded
>> them long ago?). Link is on my potato page, but this should work:
>> auric.debian.org/~cts/bf
>
> The installer says the same things "There are no Linux swap partitions"
> and "There are no Linux native partitions", even though
> fdisk and /proc/partitions list all partitions properly.

By any chance, could this be the problem where the swap partition must be
*named* swap? That's true for PowerPC partitions.

Also, pdisk (which underlies mac-fdisk) has been updated a great deal since
the version which is in the debian distribution. You could try the newer
version, from



We might want to consider updating if it works better.

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Re: Bug#99185: Problem installing Potato on an Amiga 1200

[peter karlsson]

Christian T. Steigies:

> Maybe you can try the "experimental" boot-floppies (I thought I had uploaded
> them long ago?). Link is on my potato page, but this should work:
> auric.debian.org/~cts/bf

The installer says the same things "There are no Linux swap partitions"
and "There are no Linux native partitions", even though
fdisk and /proc/partitions list all partitions properly.

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Bug#99185: Problem installing Potato on an Amiga 1200

[Adam Di Carlo]

"Christian T. Steigies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Maybe you can try the "experimental" boot-floppies (I thought I had uploaded
> them long ago?). Link is on my potato page, but this should work:
> auric.debian.org/~cts/bf

What changes, if any, would there be in that version?

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Re: Bug#99185: Problem installing Potato on an Amiga 1200

[peter karlsson]

Christian T. Steigies:

> But are you sure bf 2.2.19 uses the 2.2.10 kernel and not 2.2.17?

These are the files taken directly from my nearest Debian mirror. I
downloaded the amigainstall.tgz and base2_2.tgz files, re-packed the
first tgz to an lha on my i386 box, transferred the files to the Amiga
using a null-modem, unpacked the amigainstall archive and ran the
installer from there. I partitioned from inside the installation
program.

> Maybe you can try the "experimental" boot-floppies (I thought I had uploaded
> them long ago?). Link is on my potato page, but this should work:
> auric.debian.org/~cts/bf

I'll have a look and see if they make any difference.

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Bug#99185: Problem installing Potato on an Amiga 1200

[Christian T. Steigies]

On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 01:48:40AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> 
> > fdisk -l /dev/hda:
> > 
> > ===[ cut ]===
> > Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 17471 sectors, 18613 cylinders, RDB: 3
> > Logical Cylinders from 1 to 22364, 143122432  bytes/Cylinder
> > 
> >Device  Boot Mount   Begin  End Size   Pri  BBlksSystem
> > /dev/hda1** 1 3667   205352 3  0  Amiga FFS
> > /dev/hda2 *  366821193   981456 0  0  Linux native
> > /dev/hda3 * 211942236465576 0  0  Linux swap
> > ===[ cut ]===
looking good.

> > dmesg:
> > 
> > ===[ cut ]===
> > Linux version 2.2.10 (root@aahz) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #1 Mon Nov 27 20:50:14 CET 
>2000
and that one ought to work, I did several test installs with it on my A2k,
with a Catweasel IDE controller (sorry, no A1k2 to test). But are you sure
bf 2.2.19 uses the 2.2.10 kernel and not 2.2.17?

> > Partition check:
> >  hda: RDSK hda1 hda2 hda3
> > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
> > ===[ cut ]===
looking good.

Maybe you can try the "experimental" boot-floppies (I thought I had uploaded
them long ago?). Link is on my potato page, but this should work:
auric.debian.org/~cts/bf

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Bug#99185: Problem installing Potato on an Amiga 1200

[Adam Di Carlo]

Resubmitting this against the bug for records...


peter karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Christian T. Steigies:
> 
> > it usually gives you some information on the third(?) console. what does it
> > day?
> 
> It doesn't give any errors.
> 
> > Did you set the partition types to linux and swap? Can you show us the
> > kernel boot log or fdisk -l /dev/hda ?
> 
> fdisk -l /dev/hda:
> 
> ===[ cut ]===
> Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 17471 sectors, 18613 cylinders, RDB: 3
> Logical Cylinders from 1 to 22364, 143122432  bytes/Cylinder
> 
>Device  Boot Mount   Begin  End Size   Pri  BBlksSystem
> /dev/hda1** 1 3667   205352 3  0  Amiga FFS
> /dev/hda2 *  366821193   981456 0  0  Linux native
> /dev/hda3 * 211942236465576 0  0  Linux swap
> ===[ cut ]===
> 
> dmesg:
> 
> ===[ cut ]===
> Linux version 2.2.10 (root@aahz) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #1 Mon Nov 27 20:50:14 CET 
>2000
> Amiga hardware found: [A1200] VIDEO BLITTER AUDIO FLOPPY A1200_IDE KEYBOARD MOUSE 
>SERIAL PARALLEL A2000_CLK CHIP_RAM PAULA LISA ALICE_PAL PCMCIA ZORRO
> Console: colour dummy device 80x25
> Calibrating delay loop... 26.52 BogoMIPS
> Memory: 30012k/32768k available (1168k kernel code, 664k data, 68k init)
> kmem_create: Forcing size word alignment - filp
> VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
> kmem_create: Forcing size word alignment - dquot
> POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
> Zorro: Probing AutoConfig expansion devices: 1 device
> Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
> Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
> kmem_create: Forcing size word alignment - sock
> kmem_create: Forcing size word alignment - skbuff_head_cache
> NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
> NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
> IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
> kmem_create: Forcing size word alignment - tcp_open_request
> Initializing RT netlink socket
> Starting kswapd v 1.5
> Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x32
> fb0: Amiga AGA frame buffer device, using 1280K of video memory
> >clgenfb_init()
> clgen: Driver for Cirrus Logic based graphic boards, v1.4 ?
> clgen: no supported board found.
> M68K Serial driver version 1.01
> Probing for HyperCOM1, version 1.13 date 8.7.99
> HyperCOM1 A1200 serial port not found
> pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
> RAM disk driver initialized:  16 RAM disks of 4096K size
> loop: registered device at major 7
> ide0: Gayle IDE interface (A1200 style)
> hda: ST51270A, ATA DISK drive
> ide0 at 80da on irq 0x000c
> ide0: unexpected interrupt, status=0x51, count=1
> hda: ST51270A, 1223MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=2485/16/63
> FD: probing units
> found <5>fd: drive 0 didn't identify, setting default 
> fd0
> md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
> scsi : 0 hosts.
> scsi : detected total.
> Partition check:
>  hda: RDSK hda1 hda2 hda3
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
> ===[ cut ]===
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