On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 04:26:55PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > This (attempted) install was performed on my spiffy new PowerBook G4, using > the daily built CD netboot image from 20040522.
Is that sarge_d-i or sid_d-i? > I switched from VT1 to VT2 to quickly inspect the current partition table, > and on switching back to VT2, the background changed from blue to red. I think you must be using sarge_d-i (note that 'daily' is now a symlink to sarge_d-i), because that's been fixed in more recent versions of bogl-bterm-udeb. > I was next confronted with a message saying that no NewWorld boot partition > was found. I had made an 850K partition of this type with partman. Switching > to VT2 to look with mac-fdisk reported the size of the partition as only > 830K and as of type "Apple_Bootstrap". I would have figured this was what > yaboot was after? This isn't yaboot-installer; it's partman-newworld. I believe this should be fixed in partman-newworld 5. > Configuring yaboot was a failure, it displayed a message saying that no hard > disks had been found with an "Apple_Bootstrap" partition. Aha, apparently > the name of the partition is the whole problem. I called it nwboot for want > of something. No, the name doesn't matter. > Reran the partition disks step, renamed the name of the bootstrap partition > to "bootstrap" (that's all I did, honest), and told it to write the changes. > > Again, I was confronted with the "No NewWorld boot partition was found" > message (verified with mac-fdisk that the partition was now indeed called > "bootstrap" - it was). > > The yaboot install step was retried, and again failed. I started examining > the yaboot udeb's postinst. I can't grok the mostrosity of a sed call right > now (a bit pressed for time) but the output of a parted -s > /dev/discs/disc0/disc is: > > (Manually transposed, so not 100% anatomically accurate with the output) > > Disk geometry for /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc: 0.000-76319.085 > megabytes > Disk label type: mac > Minor Start End Filesystem Name Flags > 1 0.000 0.031 Apple > 3 0.031 0.841 bootstrap boot Could you please try this with yaboot-installer 0.0.22 in the sid_d-i images? I can tell you aren't using it because you commented on the monstrosity of a sed call. :-) - for part in `parted -s "$i" print | sed -n 's,^\([0-9]\+\) \+[0-9.]\+ \+[0-9.]\+ \+'"$ALLOWED_PTYPES"' \+.\+ \+boot$,'"$dev"'/part\1,p'`; do [...] + for part in `parted -s "$i" print | sed -n 's,^\([0-9]\+\) .* boot$,'"$dev"'/part\1,p'`; do I'd *dearly* love to get testing of current versions of partman-newworld and yaboot-installer so that we can push them into sarge. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
