Re: Success with Debian, failure with Gentoo

Oh hello :)
Thanks for the quick reply.

When I first ran the setup, auto partitioner gave me only the PALO
partition and a huge / partition. After the installation, I couldn’t boot.

So I ran the setup again and got a 24mb Palo, a 285mb /boot and a logical
volume containing / and swap. / is flagged as bootable.
After restart, I’d get a bad LIF number message.

What would be the correct partitioning schema? Is there anything I can
check at the end of the installation, before reboot, to confirm that palo
config went fine?

Then I tried to NetBoot then chroot...

I’ll give the automatic net install a chance today.

Let me know how I can help. Once the machine is up, I can also provide
secure remote access if needed.

Sauko

On Thu 1. 4. 2021 at 23:14, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Saulo!
>
> On 4/1/21 10:52 PM, Saulo Paiva wrote:
> > Netinstall goes well on Debian. The auto-partitioner is dumb so I had to
> > redo it and separate /boot.
>
> What problems did you have with the automatic partioning? If there is any
> bug, it should be reported and fixed.
>
> > Another problem is that the installer doesn't contain the firmware for
> the
> > FireGL (radeon) so when I boot, if I have the keyboard connected, I get a
> > kernel dump. I was hoping at least for unaccelerated frame buffer.
>
> This is a known issue that is still on my TODO list for fixing. It's not
> trivial
> as the firmware packages are part of the "non-free" archive which is not
> yet
> part of Debian Ports.
>
> > I was not successful with gentoo. The net installer is completely broken.
> > Using Debian as a starting point, I got far but then got stuck in the
> > dependency hell
> >
> > dev-lang/python-3.8.8 and dev-db/sqlite-3.34.1.
> > No matter what I did, I couldn't fix this.
>
> For Gentoo, you would have to ask the Gentoo mailing lists or on IRC as
> most
> people here probably have little to no experience with Gentoo.
>
> Adrian
>
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