gave it another try this evening, and for no apparent reason, it booted up to a much furthur place, still not an install, but past memory allocations. It had a line that said ----cut here---- followed by a slew of messages, some of which began with 'kernel bug' and a memory dump. I attempted to take a picture, but the machine had already reset by the time I had found a camera. I am attempting to duplicate that result now.
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 5:14 AM, Tek <t...@castyour.net> wrote: > I had similar issues with hanging on boot about a month ago with > powerpc and I believe that it ended up being a corrupted boot ram > image. Would drop into a limited shell when it tried to switch to > mounting the root file systems and visually "hang". Sounds somewhat > similar, but I cant tell from your description if its exactly the > issue. In my case I wasn't able to switch to any other console, but I > could type around int he initramfs shell still after the boot "hang". > > The mdadm driver (not used for booting on my machine) was corrupting > the initram regeneration. Removing and supressing the reinstalltion of > the mdadm script part of initramfs regeneration allowed a clean > initramfs to be built which booted fine. > > Might be one of these bugs or another similar > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=678262 > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=675452 > > My system did not boot even though the root filesystem was not on an > raid volume. > > This really may not be your issue, but the symptoms go in the same > direction, so I though I would bring it up. > > Best, > > Ryan > > On Thu 16 Aug 2012 12:27:21 AM CEST, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > > On Aug 15, 2012, at 2:46 PM, Michael Aldridge wrote: > > > >>> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Rick Thomas <rbtho...@pobox.com> > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>>> On Aug 15, 2012, at 1:52 PM, Michael Aldridge wrote: > >>>> > >>>> okay, I understand now; although, there is a slight problem with > >>>> doing that, I have no other linux machines handy with disk drives. > >>>> Is there a way of doing that from the mac terminal? > >>> > >>> > >>> If you just put the CD in the CD drive with MacOS-X running, it > >>> should mount it. > >>> > >>> In the terminal window type "df" it will show (among other things) a > >>> volume mounted on /Volumes/Debian... > >>> > >>> Type "cat /Volumes/Debian*/.disk/info" (without the quotes) > >>> > >>> Report what you see. > >>> > >>> Rick > >> > >> Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.5 "Squeeze"- Official powerpc NETINST Binary - 1 > >> 20120512-20:49 > > > > OK. That says you are using the official "stable/Squeeze" netinst > > iso, available from > > > > > > > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/6.0.5/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-6.0.5-powerpc-netinst.iso > > > > > > This is the current version that has (presumably) been used by lots of > > folks since it was released last May. So it's unlikely that the > > problem is in the ISO itself. > > > > Have you checked that the CD is bit-for-bit the same as the iso? > > > > I haven't personally tried this, but there is a "help" topic in the > > MacOS-X disk utility called "Verifying files are copied correctly from > > a disk image" that seems to tell you how to use checksums to tell if a > > CD was burned properly. > > > > Rick > > > > > > >
