Re: Install Success - Not Quite

[Chris Tillman]

>> Well I guess I jumped the gun, the m68k install didn't quite finish. It
>> downloaded all the packages for base, unpacked them all, then stopped during
>> 'Install essential packages'. I tried it twice and it stops in the same
>> place. no error messages, terminal 2 also freezes up. You can type a command
>> but it doesn't respond. No disk activity.
>
> Are you having more than a single SCSI disk in use? There's a SCSI
> driver option to run without disconnects which helps tremendously on
> these Macs, might even help with a single SCSI device. mac53c9x=1,0 or
> something like that.
>
>  Michael
>

Yes, I guess I should have mentioned that! I'm installing on an external
SCSI disk. I'm pretty new here though, are you talking about compiling an
option into the kernel? Or just adding a parameter when booting?


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Re: Install Success - Not Quite

[Michael Schmitz]

> Well I guess I jumped the gun, the m68k install didn't quite finish. It 
> downloaded all the packages for base, unpacked them all, then stopped during
> 'Install essential packages'. I tried it twice and it stops in the same
> place. no error messages, terminal 2 also freezes up. You can type a command
> but it doesn't respond. No disk activity.

Are you having more than a single SCSI disk in use? There's a SCSI
driver option to run without disconnects which helps tremendously on
these Macs, might even help with a single SCSI device. mac53c9x=1,0 or
something like that. 

Michael


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Re: Install Success - Not Quite

[Richard Hirst]

On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 11:36:52PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> 
> Well I guess I jumped the gun, the m68k install didn't quite finish. It 
> downloaded all the packages for base, unpacked them all, then stopped during
> 'Install essential packages'. I tried it twice and it stops in the same
> place. no error messages, terminal 2 also freezes up. You can type a command
> but it doesn't respond. No disk activity.

I had this on ia64, hung when libc6 or sysinitv postinst tried to
get init to reload inittab.  The root cause was that I had forgotten
to include root=/dev/ram in my boot options.  It mounted the ramdisk
ok (from initrd=), but then gets confused about whether process
1 is linuxrc or init (something like that anyway).

So check you boot with root=/dev/ram.

Richard


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Re: Install Success - Not Quite

[Ben Collins]

> The perl-base package was not installed. Neither was ldso (which is on the
> same line in install-debs as base-files and base-passwd). So evidently it is
> screeching to a halt during libc6 configuration.

ldso is _still_ in the listing!? That should not be installed on a base
system. Only libc5 should pull it in.

Ben

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Re: Install Success - Not Quite

[Chris Tillman]

Well I guess I jumped the gun, the m68k install didn't quite finish. It 
downloaded all the packages for base, unpacked them all, then stopped during
'Install essential packages'. I tried it twice and it stops in the same
place. no error messages, terminal 2 also freezes up. You can type a command
but it doesn't respond. No disk activity.

I checked after booting back in, and dpkg said the base-files and
base-passwd packages were installed OK. It said libc6 was install ok
half-configured, so I tried dpkg-reconfigure libc6. It thought for quite a
long time before deciding that libc6 was 'not fully installed'.

The perl-base package was not installed. Neither was ldso (which is on the
same line in install-debs as base-files and base-passwd). So evidently it is
screeching to a halt during libc6 configuration.

I noticed libc6 replaces ldso, could it possibly be having problems
replacing it since ldso was just installed in the previous step?

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