On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 11:55:05PM +0100, Stephane Louise wrote: The right place for this kind of thing is the debian-boot mailing list, CCing there. More precisely, you should have made an installation report.
> Hi, > > I tried to test the debian installer RC2 on my computers at home. It > went perfectly fine on my G3 iBook Rev2, but on my desktop computer, a > good old powerMac G3 B&W Rev2 (with a G4 500MHz upgrade from Sonnet and > a Radeon 7000 PCI Mac edition), it stopped after a promising start. > In fact, it stopped at the end of the basic packages installation, at > the kernel installation step. Here is the relevant part of the install.log: > > The following NEW packages will be installed: > kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc module-init-tools > 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 0B/13.6MB of archives. > After unpacking 38.9MB of additional disk space will be used. > Selecting previously deselected package module-init-tools. > (Reading database ... 7564 files and directories currently installed.) > Unpacking module-init-tools (from > .../module-init-tools_3.1-pre6-1_powerpc.deb) > ... > Selecting previously deselected package kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc. > Unpacking kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc (from > .../kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc_2.6.8-6_powerpc.deb) ... > dpkg-deb (subprocess): error in buffer_read(stream): failed to write to > pipe in > copy: Input/output error > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste returned error exit status 2 > dpkg: error processing > /cdrom/pool/main/k/kernel-patch-powerpc-2.6.8/kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc_2.6.8-6_powerpc.deb > > (--unpack): > short read in buffer_copy (backend dpkg-deb during > `./lib/modules/2.6.8-powerpc/kernel/drivers/isdn/hardware/eicon/diva_mnt.ko') > Errors were encountered while processing: > > /cdrom/pool/main/k/kernel-patch-powerpc-2.6.8/kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc_2.6.8-6_powerpc.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Mmm, this is ugly, i never saw something such, you sure that you don't have disk I/O hardware problems or something such ? > ln: /target/usr/bin/awk: File exists > umount: /target/dev/pts: Invalid argument > umount: /target/dev/shm: Invalid argument > umount: /target/proc/bus/usb: Invalid argument > > Since I didn't know where to send this kind of messages, I though it was > the first place to try and look for a solution. Nope, wrong, right place is explained in : http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/report-template Also in /root after your installation, or probably somewhere on your rc2 CD. > If it can help, I'd better bring to attention that I use an up to date > Sarge distribution on this computer, and it works fine. Nonetheless, I > still use a 2.4.x kernel on it. I tried once the 2.6.8.1 from Debian, > but I had no luck to make it work: at boot stage, the module loading > wouldn't work for the IDE interface: CMD Technology Inc PCI0646 (rev 7). Did you fill a bug report against the powerpc kernel package ? > It is a module in the initrd image and is mandatory to access the IDE > disk. But modules fails to load so the kernel fails to mount the root > partition and panics (May be I missed something in my installation of > the 2.6.8.1 kernel, though). How did you install it ? It should work out of the box. What is the exact error message ? Please, do it right and fill a bug report about this. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
