Hi Frank,
Thanks for the quick reply. I could follow your report a lot better than
the archives from february. As I mentioned, I did an install using the
6.0.7 netinst iso image (is this squeeze?), using a vtopt DVD device. The
problem I had is that the default grub did not assign the correct, nor
could it boot from the device.
Note: my hardware is "only" Power5, so I do not know how applicable this is
for Power7. My VIOS is fairly current though (v2.2.2.+).
In short, the only change I made was switching the netinst.iso from version
6.0.7 to 7.1.0. I have no clue how I would correct the problem of how the
partition layout was made before:
SCSI1 (0,1,0) (sda) - 10.7 GB AIX VDASD a x
x > #1 primary 7.3 MB B K a
x
x > #2 primary 10.2 GB F ext3 / a
x
x > #5 logical 504.4 MB F swap swap a
x
to what it made this evening (no screen capture, but I recall only two
partitions: #2 ext4, and #5 swap.
In short, whatever program is supposed to be making these partitions, is
not.
Also, I recall that it was calling it SCSI1 (0,3,0) - maybe because I
modified disks and it know has LUN ID 0x83000000, rather 0x81000000 - would
that have that effect (server is powered off, or I would look again).
(atcually, not sure if it said SCSI1 - but I recall being surprised by the
(0,3,0) identifier/string.
When I have more time I will do the install again, and make a screen shot.
regards,
Michael
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 5:23 AM, Frank Fegert <fra.nospam...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hello Michael,
>
> On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 03:44:01AM +0800, Michael Felt wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > ??????????????? [!!] Install yaboot on a hard disk
> ?????????????????????????????
> > ??????
> ???
> > ?????? No bootstrap partition found
> ???
> > ?????? No hard disks were found which have an "Apple_Bootstrap"
> partition. ???
> > ?????? You must create an 819200-byte partition with type
> "Apple_Bootstrap". ???
> > ??????
> ???
> > ?????? <Go Back>
> <Continue> ???
> > ??????
> ???
> >
> ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
> >
> > I had chosen the option "whole disk" - all in one - recommended for new,
> > and it created two partitions only (#2 ext4, and #5 swap).
> >
> > Is my assumption correct that I will need to use manual and create an
> > additional partition named "Apple_Bootstrap" _(for now at least) - and if
> > so, is there a preferred disk partition # to be used?
> >
> > Thanks for the feedback.
> >
> > p.s. a pointer to the bugs site is also welcome and I'll report and feed
> > the bug report.
>
> do you per chance have the d-i ISO image mounted via a VTOPT device
> from e.g. a underlying VIO server? If so, please take a look at:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=352914
>
> starting at Message #194. Or the mailing list archive here:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2013/02/msg00023.html
>
> In my case it turned out the installer did everything fine WRT the
> partition layout, but the "find-partitions" command used to detect
> the "Apple_Bootstrap" partition stumbled upon the ISO image mounted
> via a VTOPT from the VIO server. See here for a full writeup of the
> whole ordeal:
> http://www.bityard.org/blog/2013/02/17/debian_wheezy_on_ibm_power
>
> According to the latest update in the bug report this issue should
> be fixed in more recent versions of the d-i. Didn't test this with
> the new versions though ...
>
> HTH & best regards,
>
> Frank Fegert
>
