current d-i cd won't boot on G3
Hi, i've tried today's daily build of the powerpc netinstaller cd. This is a G3 powerpc and i can't make it boot the cd by any means: - pressing 'c' upon boot - loading the OpenFirmware with the Systemdisk-Tool from the d-i install guide and from there going "boot cd:,\install\yaboot" or going "boot hd:6,yaboot" after having copied the files from CD to the harddisk. - Pressing the Apple-Alt-Shift-Delete (or what else is "Option" supposed to be if not "Alt"?) - trying ide0: and ide1: will not be taken by OpenFirmware All of those leave me with a system booting MacOS 9.2. The OpenFirmware is 2.0f1 (yes, i read it was buggy, therefore i used the DiskSelector tool as descibed - or so i hope i did). Any ideas how to get the CD booted are welcome. Thanks! -- Best regards, Kilian signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil
Re: current d-i cd won't boot on G3
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Re: Fwd: Re: current d-i cd won't boot on G3
Hi Clive, > > If it's a beige G3 you'll need to use BootX 1.2.2 Thanks! that did the trick. Maybe it should be added to the d-i manual how to tell what's "OldWorld" and what's "NewWorld" mac. I thought i had a NewWorld one for some reason (well, just wildly guessing actually). -- Best regards, Kilian signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil
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Hi, > > If it's a beige G3 you'll need to use BootX 1.2.2 moreover, what's the reason, BootX can't be shipped on the CD? -- Best regards, Kilian signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil
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Hi Brad, thanks for the insight. In that case, why isn't that list shipped with the d-i docs? Or is it and i was just too blind to see it? Could there be a mini-tool or a script telling? Like you have a small prog on the CD which you start and that would read "Your mac is oldworld, use BootX".. -- Best regards, Kilian signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil
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Hi again, ok, here's the next problem. Now i have managed to get past BootX, even past d-i, except that it failed at quix installation. So i thought, who cares, i'll go for BootX with my kernel and a proper root= setting.. Yet when i launch BootX with root=/dev/hda8 or root=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part8 both render me with a kernel panic "couldn't find root"... Any hints how to get past that? -- Best regards, Kilian signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil
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Hi Clive, > What you need to do to get BootX to boot your installed Linux system is > copy the initrd.gz and vmlinux from your installed system onto the Mac > partition and then replace the installer versions in "Linux Kernels" > with these installed versions. The problem I've had is that I can't > seem to mount the Mac HFS+ partition to be able to copy them. I haven't > got very far with my latest attempt 1. because I've been very busy and > 2. my daughter rebooted the machine (instead of using her own) before I > managed to get around the copying problem and so I've got to reinstall > ;( ok, i'll try to copy the initrd.gz alongside and supply the root=/dev/hda8 on the given commandline. From what the docs tell, you cannot write to HFS+, so when reinstalling, make sure that you initialize the harddisk with HFS instead of HFS+. > Let me know if you have more success. I'll let you know once i'm booted to the sys *g* -- Best regards, Kilian signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil
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Hi Clive, ok, so here's how it goes: use the BootX with the kernel from the installed system, supply the initrd of the booted system and put a root=... as commandline arg. That way i could boot the system just fine. Yet it seems there's no hfs support in the d-i kernel 2.6.7... At least i couldn't mount the HFS partition. But at least i have some system up and running now.. ;) -- Best regards, Kilian signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil
Re: Fwd: Re: current d-i cd won't boot on G3
Hi Clive, > Does that mean that you used the 2.4 kernel? It would be good if you > filed an installation report as requested here: > http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/report-template nope, i have gone with the 2.6.7 and its initrd.img.. I'll file the installation report later.. but the important things are already listed as bugs for d-i (missing BootX, no quix installer possible, no docs how to identify oldworld mac).. At least a rough check on the bts looked like that. -- Best regards, Kilian signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil
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Hi Clive, > Does that mean that you used the 2.4 kernel? It would be good if you > filed an installation report as requested here: > http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/report-template done. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=258038 -- Best regards, Kilian signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil
