On Sun, 31 May 2009, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 02:01:24PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On May 24, 2009, at 2:39 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > >> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/ > >> > >> says that "This build finished at Mon May 18 22:27:07 UTC 2009." > >> > >> That's almost a week ago. I'd like to test a new sid installation on > >> one of my Macs but until this is fixed, I can't. Any idea when it will > >> be working again? > > > > This has not changed in the last week. It still says May 18th, 2009. > > > > What is wrong and what can we do to fix it? > > Sorry, no idea what was wrong but just as I went to look at the logs > of the last build the latest one just succeeded.
I gave the one from 2009-06-03 a try on PS3, and it's still missing some required modules (ps3rom (CD/DVD/BD), ps3disk (HDD), ps3_gelic (Ethernet)) [1], so I couldn't install it. I did manage to install something using http://people.debian.org/~wouter/d-i/powerpc/20090501-22:00/powerpc64/netboot/mini.iso `Unfortunately' I decided to give encrypted LVM a try. As it didn't install a kernel, initrd, and bootloader config [1], the install was rendered unbootable. First I tried to fix it manually: - Set up decryption and LVM from NFS root, and mount the file system - chroot to the mounted file system - install busybox-static from sid, to get a working grep [2] - install linux-image-2.6.29-2-powerpc64, which creates the initrd However, the initrd complains it cannot find the volume group, and drops into a shell after a while. From there, I can setup decryption and LVM and mount the file system manually, though. Am I missing some important step? Second, I tried to boot mini.iso in rescue mode, but it didn't detect any encrypted volumes, so I couldn't recover. IIRC, resuce mode worked fine when I tried it on my laptop (amd64) with encrypted LVM ca. one year ago. Perhaps there are other issues with encrypted LVM on ppc? [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=514055 [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=531600 With kind regards, Geert Uytterhoeven Software Architect Techsoft Centre Technology and Software Centre Europe The Corporate Village · Da Vincilaan 7-D1 · B-1935 Zaventem · Belgium Phone: +32 (0)2 700 8453 Fax: +32 (0)2 700 8622 E-mail: [email protected] Internet: http://www.sony-europe.com/ A division of Sony Europe (Belgium) N.V. VAT BE 0413.825.160 · RPR Brussels Fortis · BIC GEBABEBB · IBAN BE41293037680010 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
