Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images
My suggestion continues to be to delete all your partitions, and let the ISO installer install the partitions it wants to install.
It has worked for me every time.
But if you don’t want to do that, and it fails to install for you, then I have no further suggestions.
Best,
Ken
> On Mar 25, 2022, at 10:09 PM, Stan Johnson <userm57@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/25/22 10:12 PM, Ken Cunningham wrote:
>> Completely erase the hard drive, until you have a totally blank disk, with no partitions whatsoever on it.
>>
>> To do this, I mounted the HD using Firewire disc mode from another system, and formatted it until it was bare.
>
> Erasing the beginning of the disk (including the partition table) with
> something like "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=64k count=100" from
> rescue mode on the installation CD should be sufficient (and not as hard
> on the disk or as time consuming as erasing everything).
>
>>
>> Then let the CD installer ISO take care of doing everything. Let it use the whole disk mode. Don’t try to outsmart it in any way. Don’t use manual anything.
>
> I think that's what I did when I let it take over the whole disk. It
> deleted everything, including Apple driver partitions, leaving only four
> partitions -- partition table, Apple_Bootstrap, rootfs and swap (see my
> step 3 below).
>
>>
>> Success should follow.
>
> Not for me on the Pismo.
>
>>
>> Ken
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> My installation attempt using CD [2] above on a PowerBook G3 Pismo (500
>>> MHz; 2 GiB memory) failed.
>>>
>>> 1) I started with a blank 120 GB disk. I partitioned the disk to include
>>> partitions (after the Apple drive partitions) for Apple_Bootstrap
>>> (/dev/sda6; 10 MiB), Mac OS 9 (/dev/sda7; 1 GiB), Mac OS X (/dev/sda8; 7
>>> GiB), Debian rootfs (/dev/sda9; 16 GiB), and swap (/dev/sda10; 2 GiB) --
>>> I left the rest of the disk un-partitioned.
>>>
>>> 2) The installation CD booted and GRUB worked. I chose a default
>>> installation with manual partitioning, using the partitions I set up in
>>> step 1. Everything worked as expected until GRUB installation, which
>>> failed. The error message was that GRUB failed to install on /dev/sda9
>>> (the rootfs, not the Apple_Bootstrap, partition).
>>>
>>> 3) In step 2, I thought it might have failed because my Apple_Bootstrap
>>> partition could have been too small, so I tried the installation again,
>>> choosing a default installation using the entire disk with only the
>>> default partitions. The resulting sizes were approximately as follows:
>>> Apple_Bootstrap (/dev/sda2; 256 MB); Debian rootfs (/dev/sda3; ~115
>>> GiB); and swap (/dev/sda4; ~768 MB). So this Apple_Bootstrap was
>>> certainly larger than the one I used in step 1, and I was optimistic
>>> that everything would work. But GRUB installation failed again, with the
>>> error message that "grub-install /dev/sda3" failed. Even if this had
>>> worked, it appears that I would have lost the Apple drivers needed to
>>> boot Mac OS 9.
>>>
>>> 4) Booting into rescue mode on the installation CD, I was also not able
>>> to install GRUB on the Apple_Bootstrap partition directly (e.g. after
>>> step 3, I tried "grub-install /dev/sda2"). The error message was that
>>> the partition was not a partition of type PReP.
>>>
>>> Please let me know of anything else that I could try.
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> -Stan Johnson
>>>
>>
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