Hellom rick
I do automatic partitining on free spaceIt gives about
1MB newworld boot179GB / root debian ext41.5GB Swap
But yaboot fails afterards with

Input/output error or even refuses to install


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Von: Rick Thomas <[email protected]> 
Datum: 07.10.2017  11:38  (GMT+01:00) 
An: "richard.kuenz" <[email protected]> 
Cc: Frank Scheiner <[email protected]>, PowerPC List Debian 
<[email protected]> 
Betreff: Re: PowerPC sid installation 


On Oct 7, 2017, at 2:03 AM, richard.kuenz <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am getting this error now with squeeze after yesterday installation 
> succeeded after some hiccups 
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When you installed, did you create an ext2 partition for /boot?  If I’m 
understanding the error message in your screenshot correctly it looks like you 
took the default partition setup.  Unfortunately, that setup puts the linux 
kernel and initrd in the root partition, which is ext4.

Yaboot has trouble with some newer features of ext4 partitions.  For a while 
those new features were disabled on powerpc machines as a temporary workaround 
for this problem.  But it looks like that disablement is not in the installer 
you are using.

My solution to that is to choose the “with LVM” partitioning scheme.   This 
creates a small ext2 partition to be mounted on /boot and points yaboot at it 
rather than at the root ext4 partition. This /boot partition holds the vmlinux 
and initrd stuff.  If you don’t like LVM, you can choose manual partitioning 
and set it up any way you want as long as you put the kernel and initrd in an 
ext2 partition.


Hope that helps!
Rick

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