Hi Roberto, On 4/26/19 17:33, roberto.guardato wrote:
Hi Adrian, i tried https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2019-04-20/debian-10.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso on Mid-2004 - M9457LL/A - PowerMac7,3 - A1047 - 1969C. installation media is on CF card using a CF to Ide adapter, boot pressing 'c' key at chimes sound.
I wasn't aware that these type 7,3 G5s still had an IDE port.
Performing a normal install cdrom device must be selected manually (/dev/sda); 80gb hdd detected ad sdb, using default partition scheme - > use full disk with all files in a single partition; manually selected debian-ports; Installation stops at grub install with following error: Apr 26 14:05:28 main-menu[219]: (process:11323): mount: mounting /dev/sdb on /target/boot/grub failed: Device or resource busy here is part of the syslog : ... Apr 26 14:05:20 mk-hfs-bootstrap: HFS bootstrap partition found: /dev/sdb [...] Apr 26 14:05:27 in-target: Initialized /dev/sdb as a 76293 MB HFS volume Apr 26 14:05:27 anna-install: Installing hfs-modules Apr 26 14:05:28 mk-hfs-bootstrap: Mounting HFS bootstrap partition failed! Cannot continue. Exiting. Apr 26 14:05:28 main-menu[219]: (process:11323): dpkg-divert: warning: diverting file '/sbin/start-stop-daemon' from an Essential package with rename is dangerous, use --no-rename Apr 26 14:05:28 main-menu[219]: (process:11323): dpkg-divert: warning: diverting file '/sbin/start-stop-daemon' from an Essential package with rename is dangerous, use --no-rename Apr 26 14:05:28 main-menu[219]: (process:11323): dpkg-divert: warning: diverting file '/sbin/start-stop-daemon' from an Essential package with rename is dangerous, use --no-rename Apr 26 14:05:28 main-menu[219]: (process:11323): dpkg-divert: warning: diverting file '/sbin/start-stop-daemon' from an Essential package with rename is dangerous, use --no-rename Apr 26 14:05:28 main-menu[219]: (process:11323): mount: mounting /dev/sdb on /target/boot/grub failed: Device or resource busy
Not sure how you got `mk-hfs-bootstrap.sh` to detect the whole disk as the HFS bootstrap partition, because in your used ISO it should still require three partition settings at the same time (partition bootable, method newworld used for partition, designated mount point is `/boot/grub`). It uses the info created by the partitioning step, so for whatever reason the partitioning step must have configured the whole drive as bootable, with method newworld and `/boot/grub` as mount point. Can you post the partition layout of /dev/sdb? For this you can restart a "normal" mode installation and forward until the configure network step. Then change to a console and issue `cat /proc/partitions` and also `partmap /dev/sdb`. The full syslog of the original failing installation would have been also helpful, because it could maybe explain what happended during the partitioning step. Cheers, Frank
