>From memory it is creating three partitions - boot, swap and /. The boot partition is position 1 iirc.
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Lennart Sorensen < lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 08:01:08PM +0100, Michael Felt wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > I downloaded the debian netinstaller - debian-6.0.7-powerpc-netinst.iso - > > and installed on a p505. The installation process goes well, but the boot > > fails. > > > > I tried using the LVM with multiple partitions and got this message > > If you omit "device:" and "partno" yaboot will use the values of > > "device=" and "partition=" in yaboot.conf, right now those are set to: > > device=/vdevice/v-scsi@30000002/@1 > > partition=-1 > > > > And after a reinstall using the whole disk, no LVM I got: > > If you omit "device:" and "partno" yaboot will use the values of > > "device=" and "partition=" in yaboot.conf, right now those are set to: > > device=/vdevice/v-scsi@30000002/@1 > > partition=2 > > > > The other key message, same for both is: > > Please wait, loading kernel... > > Can't open device </vdevice/v-scsi@30000002/@1:0> > > /vdevice/v-scsi@30000002/@1:2,/boot/vmlinux: Unable to open file, > Invalid > > device > > > > I have located a number of bugs with "Invalid device" in them > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=641852 > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=637519 > > > > but these seem to be focused on issues with the installer and power7. My > > question is about after the installation. > > > > How to proceed? How to document - better - what is wrong? > > How are you partitioning the disk? > > My understanding is that yaboot requries boot partition to install to > so at least that one can't be in LVM. > > I stopped using yaboot a long time ago, but the debian installer still > seems to prefer it on powerpc. > > -- > Len Sorensen >
