Am 23.02.2012 23:18, schrieb Andreas Färber:
Am 23.02.2012 21:54, schrieb Andreas Färber:
Hardware is an IBM IntelliStation 9111-285 (POWER5). I've tried letting it partition the disks with btrfs and then get stuck in an endless loop that keeps asking me if I want to ignore a missing checksum:
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After lots of Alt-E (don't show again), Alt-J (use this file) and Alt-N (don't use this file) I finally got the installation running through
(About 31x Alt-J)
until it wants to reboot. After reboot the system is not bootable and drops back to System Management menu and the boot options there too do not recognize any bootable devices apart from CD-ROM and NICs.
Parted says this:
(parted) print list Model: IBM H0 HUS103073FL3800 (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 73.4GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 1049kB 214MB 213MB primary fat16 boot, type=06 2 214MB 73.4GB 73.2GB extended lba, type=0f 5 215MB 2369MB 2154MB logical linux-swap(v1) type=82 6 2370MB 31.0GB 28.7GB logical type=83 7 31.0GB 73.4GB 42.4GB logical type=83
With Alex, Dinar's and Ben's help I figured out that the type=06 partition is the culprit here. The YaST partitioner sets it up correctly as type=41, but when ext4 or btrfs is used, it gets converted from PReP to FAT16. Selecting ext3 in the partitioner leads to an error during bootloader installation when it tries to shrink the PReP boot partition using: /usr/sbin/parted -s /dev/sda resize 1 2048s 2191s parted does not recognize the filesystem in /dev/sda1 (there is none in such a PReP boot partition) and therefore refuses to resize it. I used fdisk to manually delete and recreate it using these start and end sectors and ran dd if=/media/cdrom/suseboot/yaboot.ibm of=/dev/sda1 That made the disk bootable for SMS and OF but yaboot does not find its config. Creating an ext3 primary partition 3 in the space between resized PReP boot partition and extended partition and placing files /etc/yaboot.conf and /etc/yaboot,cnf did not help. (I still have to try /yaboot.cnf.) The following worked to boot into the installation: yaboot: disk:6,/boot/vmlinux initrd=disk:6,/boot/initrd There are still some errors though, like DHCP4 hanging (although it does in the installer) and something localfs-dependent network hangs, too. Using static IP, default route and static nameserver worked. Shutting down the system has the same problems as starting up and this is reproducible on every boot. All feels a bit unstable but that might be just the current state of Factory. Unfortunately osc is not available yet, to work on improving things from the ppc machine. Andreas -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer; HRB 16746 AG Nürnberg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+owner@opensuse.org