[Due to a typo in the cc list on my older mail, this reply from Sven didn't make it into the bugs database. Forwarding. --John]
Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 14:50:05 +0200 To: John Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Installing sarge PPC kernel with d-i fails with initrd warning Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 03:53:33AM -0700, John Gilmore wrote: > > > I booted the install CD in expert mode, and was able to progress > > > through the installation until picking a kernel. I picked the > > > kernel-image-2.6.6-powerpc (I also tried 2.4.25-powerpc-small-pmac and > > > got the same result). It failed to install, producing these error > > > > Well, the correct 2.4 kernel for your hardware would be > > 2.4.25-powerpc-pmac. I assume that you have a new world pmac (that is, > > more recent than the blue&white G3), altough you don4t give any info > > about this. > > The latest PowerPC Sarge CD doesn't include a 2.4.25-powerpc-pmac kernel > image. (I've heard that a few weeks ago it was in exile on CD #9.) > The closest this CD came was powerpc-small-pmac. Well, then you either need to get it from the net, or you need CD #9. the powerpc-small kernel is mostly only used for creating old world miboot debian-installer floppies, and there is no reason it should be on CD #1. That said, there has been no official sarge floppies for beta4, which is a real shame. I would be interested myself with a powerpc DVD set for it, but i hear that testing is currently too broken to create such CD/DVD sets. Now, go to the debian-installer site, download the beta4 powerpc netinst, and do the install from there, it should contain everything you would need. > I'm installing on a brand new PowerBook G4 12". It's not the faster > one that Apple just shipped; it's the one we got slightly cheaper > right after they announced new ones :-). A, the nvidia one. > Is there a web page somewhere (or perhaps even something in the > installation manual!) that says which kernels go with which pieces > of PowerPC hardware? Nope, but debian-installer should know about it. Get yourself the beta4 netinst iso, and you should be able to do a full base install from it, and also to configure the network and pull the rest of the stuff from there. > > > ...and no documentation anywhere visible, about which of the dozen+ > > > kernels is even for which hardware! > > > > It should be automatically selected, don't know what happened. Did you > > start in expert mode or something ? > > Yes. When I start in non-expert mode, it won't let me bring up a > network connection (even if I have the ethernet plugged in). In an This is a more worthy bug report. Did you already fill that bug report. Notice that on my ibook G3 800, which i should get again tomorrow, i had no such problems. > earlier attempt at installing, I was able to install the right kernel > by getting it over the net. > > And when I start in non-expert mode, on this hardware the automatic > picker picks kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-smp-prep. Even if this was > the right kernel (I doubt it is, it's a uniprocessor), that kernel > install script dies with "Internal Error: (=D) is not a directory!", > as reported tonight in bug#248067. Bah. probably a base-installer bug then, i don't know what happens, my ibook having been dead for over a month, i haven't done pmac installs since then. But then again, please use the beta4, it should be working better, i think. > Somehow, the Sarge CD starts up with the right kernel (or with a Where did you get that sarge CD from ? > kernel that works for everybody). If only the installer could just > copy that damn CD kernel onto the hard drive, we'd be done. The user > is going to throw that one away and install a BenH kernel if he's been And that would be stupid, since this kernel _IS_ a benh kernel, but then the user will probably be reading a whole lot of outdated HOWTOs. > googling even a little bit, so all he needs is ANY bootable kernel. > Besides, I hear that there are even more interesting problems awaiting me > once my machine is able to boot -- like, no X11 support and such. Well, again, please use current information. 4.3.0 should have no problem on your hardware, but then everyone buying nvidia graphics deserves what he gets, and i have not followed on that all that much, so i may be wrong. > Thank you for your help. No problem, Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
