Hello! On 3/26/22 04:06, Stan Johnson wrote: > My installation attempt using CD [2] above on a PowerBook G3 Pismo (500 > MHz; 2 GiB memory) failed. > > 1) I started with a blank 120 GB disk. I partitioned the disk to include > partitions (after the Apple drive partitions) for Apple_Bootstrap > (/dev/sda6; 10 MiB), Mac OS 9 (/dev/sda7; 1 GiB), Mac OS X (/dev/sda8; 7 > GiB), Debian rootfs (/dev/sda9; 16 GiB), and swap (/dev/sda10; 2 GiB) -- > I left the rest of the disk un-partitioned.
You are missing the HFS partition that gets mounted to /boot/grub. You either used one of the older, broken images or you ignored the warning during partitioning that a system without /boot/grub won't be able to boot. > 2) The installation CD booted and GRUB worked. I chose a default > installation with manual partitioning, using the partitions I set up in > step 1. Everything worked as expected until GRUB installation, which > failed. The error message was that GRUB failed to install on /dev/sda9 > (the rootfs, not the Apple_Bootstrap, partition). What image did you use? > 3) In step 2, I thought it might have failed because my Apple_Bootstrap > partition could have been too small, so I tried the installation again, > choosing a default installation using the entire disk with only the > default partitions. The resulting sizes were approximately as follows: > Apple_Bootstrap (/dev/sda2; 256 MB); Debian rootfs (/dev/sda3; ~115 > GiB); and swap (/dev/sda4; ~768 MB). So this Apple_Bootstrap was > certainly larger than the one I used in step 1, and I was optimistic > that everything would work. But GRUB installation failed again, with the > error message that "grub-install /dev/sda3" failed. Even if this had > worked, it appears that I would have lost the Apple drivers needed to > boot Mac OS 9. GRUB does not use the Apple_Bootstrap partition. It uses an HFS filesystem that gets mounted to /boot/grub. You cannot get a bootable system without that partition. > 4) Booting into rescue mode on the installation CD, I was also not able > to install GRUB on the Apple_Bootstrap partition directly (e.g. after > step 3, I tried "grub-install /dev/sda2"). The error message was that > the partition was not a partition of type PReP. It's because GRUB is not installed onto the Apple_Bootstrap partition. PReP partitions are used on IBM machines among other systems but not on Apple machines. > Please let me know of anything else that I could try. What image did you use? Please reference the URL. And if you used the correct image, what steps did you perform? Did you run in expert mode? I could imagine that expert mode turns off all warnings and therefore it didn't tell you when your manual partitioning resulted in an unusable partition layout. 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
