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has caused the Debian Bug report #630555,
regarding problems installing to apple 2011 imac
to be marked as done.
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Package: installation-reports
Boot method: CD
Image version: debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso (downloaded on 2011-06-15)
Date: 2011-06-15
Machine: Apple iMac (May 2011 alum 21.5-inch Core i5) iMac12,1
Processor: Core i5
Memory: 4G
Partitions:
Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn): (can't provide just now, install didn't
succeed, and I don't want to type it out from looking at the screen).
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: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Clock/timezone setup: [E]
User/password setup: [O]
Install tasks: [O]
Install boot loader: [E]
Overall install: [E]
Comments/Problems:
I wasn't able to select 'Melbourne' or 'Victoria' as a timezone. Other correct
Australian timezones were displayed, even some that I'd consider much less
popular than Melbourne, a captial city,
I was prompted with an error about Dictionaries-common. I was told to 'Please
insert the disc labelled: 'Debian GNU/Linux testing _Wheezy_ - Official
Snapshot amd64 NETINST Binary-1 20110608-21:45'. The CD was still in the drive.
On console 4 I had the message:
Jun 15 05:38:13 load-install-cd: E: Failed to mount the cdrom.
Hitting 'Continue' repeatedly bought up the error. Hitting 'Go Back' seemed to
continue.
Then there was an error about Configuring grub-pc. The message said:
There was a problem reading data from the CD-ROM. Please make sure it is in
the drive. If retrying does not work, you should check the integriy of your
CD-ROM.
Failed to copy file from CD-ROM. Retry?
Retrying doesn't succeed. I've (previously) ran a 'md5sum -c' on the md5sum
file on the CD image, and not found any problems. I've also done a similar
thing on the Mac itself (by booting to the Mac OSX partition, and writing a
short python script that uses hashlib, as md5sum isnt' natively available on
Mac)
On console 4 at this point I'm seeing some errors about configuring grub-pc,
lines like:
Jun 15 05:58:42 in-target: Use of uninitialized value $item in exists at
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/Cache.pm line 39, <GEN2> line 76.
There were similar lines about value $template in
/usr/sahre/perl5/Debconf/Template.pm line 81, <GEN2> line 85.
There were also error messages saying
Jun 15 05:58:42 anna[20604]: DEBUG: resolver (kernel-image-2.6.38-2-amd64-di):
package doesn't exist (ignored)
Jun 15 05:58:42 anna[20604]: DEBUG: retrieving
reiserfs-modules-2.6.38-2-amd64-di 1.80
Jun 15 05:58:42 cdrom-retriever: error: Unable to find
'pool/main/l/linux-kernel-di-amd64-2.6/resierfs-modules-2.6.38-2-amd64-di_1.80_amd64.udeb
Jun 15 05:58:42 anna[20604]: WARNING **: package retrieval failed
Those last two lines were repeated every time I hit '<Yes>' on the configuring
grub-pc prompt. Hitting no on the prompt bought up the same message, but on the
4th console it was reporting that ntf-modules-2.6.38-2-amd64-di_1.80_amd64.udeb
was unable to be retrieved, and then something else, possibly called qnx
something.
I installed grub to the MBR, but upon rebooting the MAC failed to boot into it,
and instead did an EFI boot into the installed MAC partition. I'm going to try
getting booting working with rEFit, but thought I'd send in this installation
report first.
Cheers,
Geoff Crompton
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reassign 699697 src:linux
reassign 690515 grub-installer
thanks
Hi,
thank you for submitting installation reports, much appreciated.
I read through all the bugs mentioned here (and I'm sure they were read by
several people at the time they were submitted) and am closing them now as/if
- they (finally) indicated success and/or
- I know from first hand experience that the functionality is working in
Wheezy and/or
- they only contained very little information and/or
- they contained user errors and/or
- they were caused by broken hardware and/or
- they have been from a development phase where things were not stable.
If I've closed a bug incorrectly please do reply (it's easy to reopen and I'll
do if requested) or just file a new one - thats often better, as the bug log
will be clearer and shorter and not contain cruft.
cheers,
Holger
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