On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 12:53:55AM +0100, James Troup wrote: > Package: installation-reports > > INSTALL REPORT > > Debian-installer-version: TC1 > uname -a: Linux elisha 2.4.25-powerpc #1 mer avr 14 15:38:38 CEST 2004 ppc GNU/Linux > Date: 2004-05-06 10PM GMT > Method: Installed off netinst CD > > [http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/powerpc/tc1/sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso] > > Machine: Apple Powerbook G4 > Processor: 1.5Ghz G4 > Memory: 512MB > Root Device: 80GB IDE (TOSHIBA MK8026GAX) > Root Size/partition table: ... > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > /dev/hda > # type name length base ( size ) > system > /dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 ( 31.5k) > Partition map > /dev/hda2 Apple_Bootstrap untitled 19532 @ 64 ( 9.5M) > NewWorld bootblock > /dev/hda3 Apple_Bootstrap untitled 155281251 @ 19596 ( 74.0G) > NewWorld bootblock
Wah. What happened there to give you two Apple_Bootstrap partitions? Is that just what 'fdisk -l' says after installation? Ah; perhaps you had / marked as bootable, due to a now-fixed bug in partman-auto. That would also have made the yaboot-installer question more confusing since it would've "helpfully" offered to overwrite / with the bootstrap partition. > (o) I hope the auto-partitioning logic varies between platforms > because 10Mb is far too small for /boot on hppa[1] at least and > possibly others? Yeah. In fact, the 10MB partition you've got isn't /boot, but the bootstrap partition, which is a powerpc-specific thing being the partition where the yaboot bootloader gets installed. It's not actually mounted anywhere. Was there something that implied it was /boot? > (o) yaboot asked me what partition to use. It'd be nice if it could > have been told that by the auto-partitioning stuff? It would, but parted doesn't give us accurate enough answers for that. :-( The current implementation is basically a sufficiently-working kludge which is unlikely to break but is a bit ugly; I'd love to replace it with something better once something better has been devised (namely fixing parted to have a better means of probing for Apple_Bootstrap partitions, or else having an hfsutils-udeb). Maybe excluding any partitions which are explicitly mounted would help. > Conclusion: Great work, you guys. :-) Cool. Thanks for testing! -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
