On 4/14/20 12:11 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote:> I will take a look at : > > https://github.com/glaubitz/powerpc-utils/commit/4a3f51762fdd90112721e3c436973aec51beb95c > > > Just to see if I can get a handle on the problem.
Ok, thanks. > Also, I am surprised that this is a script and not a binary. I would > have thought that getting access to openfirmware data as well as the > management of that data ( for boot dev etc ) would have all been done > in C code. It's just a script that matches OF pathnames retrieved from the kernel via /sys into device paths below /dev. I don't see why such a program would have to be C code. >> There are only three known ways the images can fail. >> >> 1) Packages are not installable in the step "Select and install >> software", something you can always skip and perform after the >> machine has been rebooted. People seem to assume that it's >> mandatory to install extra software during the initial installation >> which is not true. It's purely optional and you should just >> install the basic system from CD. > > Of course. > > I went for the most basic and trivial config with zero graphical > software and merely ssh and the essential baseline tools. Nothing > more. If I could make telnetd work then I would even skip sshd. Installing sshd doesn't cause any issues and you should not use telnetd either. >> 2) Installation of the base system failing because of vim-tiny >> being uninstallable. An image that has this problem is unusable >> and I was sure I deleted all images that suffered this problem. >> >> The background of this problem is explained here: >> >> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2020/03/msg00221.html > > I do not need vim during install and in fact I did use "printf" to > append my network config to /etc/network/interfaces as well as to create > a reasonable /etc/resolv.conf for the /target that exists during > install. I did not see any problem with vim-tiny but then again I was > never able to boot the newer install results after the installer said > "reboot". It's not a question whether you need vim-tiny or not as it's installation is mandatory for the base system. Whatever Debian system you install, it *will* install vim-tiny as vim-tiny is marked "important" in the priority list. >> 3) GRUB not being installable on PowerMacs due to ofpathname not >> returning the correct OpenFirmware pathnames on Apple PowerMacs >> and hence grub-installer unable to figure out the correct OF >> path. >> >> The GRUB issue can be solved by installing GRUB manually as >> explained by Frank Scheiner: >> >> https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2017/09/msg00034.html >> https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2017/10/msg00005.html > > Strangely I have never been able to get the openfirmware prompt to > appear on this particular machine I am testing and it may be a > characteristic of the Sun USB keyboards I am using. IIRC the key combination is Apple+Cmd+O+F. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
