Hi Marc! On 10/5/21 19:46, Marc Zyngier wrote: > It looks like we reached the same point in parallel! I also realise I > should have given a few more details about my setup, because it isn't > at all obvious from my email. > > The machine I use has no CDROM (it is what Apple used to call a > Cluster node), and cannot boot from USB. So the only way to install > Debian is to dump the NETINST image on the hard drive (take it to > another box, dd the image, move it back) and boot from that. It works > fine and I land in the installer > > However, as the initrd doesn't contain the SATA driver, it is unable > to mount the image where all the udeb for the kernel modules are, and > at this point I was stuck.
Did you use the NETINST or netboot image? Those are not the same. netboot are for actual netboot and contain different drivers. Either way, I will check the d-i configuration for cdrom and check whether those modules are not included in the debian-installer build. > Oct 5 17:32:43 grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '/dev/sdb3' > > Oct 5 17:32:43 grub-installer: info: grub-install does not support > --no-floppy > Oct 5 17:32:43 grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target grub-install > --macppc-directory=/boot/grub --no-nvram --force > > Oct 5 17:32:44 grub-installer: Installing for powerpc-ieee1275 platform. > > Oct 5 17:32:46 grub-installer: grub-install: error: filesystem on /boot/grub > is neither HFS nor HFS+. > > Oct 5 17:32:46 grub-installer: error: Running 'grub-install > --macppc-directory=/b=/t/grub --no-nvram --force failed. > > > I need to see whether there is any way to convey this requirement to > the installer at partition-time, but it will probably be a week-end > thing now. Can you just tell me whether it offered to create an HFS /boot partition? The whole GRUB installation process is a solved problem. It can just be that the "partman-hfs" package is missing in this installer image. It's required to set up and format the HFS /boot partition. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
