Re: Re: Booting openSUSE-NET-ppc-Build0003-Media.iso

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Andreas Färber <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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:
>>>
>>> <<<
>>> Installation - Vorbereitung
>>>
>>> Keine Prüfsumme gefunden
>>>
>>> Es wurde keine Prüfsumme für Datei
>>> /var/tmp/TmpDir.HiC8oc/suse/setup/slide/txt
>>> in dem Repository gefunden. Dies bedeutet, dass die Datei Teil des
>>> signierten
>>> jedoch nicht in der Liste der Prüfsummen in diesem Repository erwähnt
>>> wird. Du
>>> kann die Integrität des Systems gefährdet werden.
>>>
>>> Trotzdem verwenden?
>>>
>>> [ ] Diese Meldung nicht erneut zeigen
>>>
>>> [Ja] [Nein]
>>
>> 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.
Yeah.. FAT16 setup is broken, but as I can see from the logs kernel,
initrd, yaboot and its config
are copied over to the partition. So metadata or FS itself is not compatible.

>
> 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
Weird, I don't have such problem

>
> 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.
I think this is related to sed is missing in initrd
>
> Unfortunately osc is not available yet, to work on improving things from
> the ppc machine.
You can grab osc from openSUSE:Tools project (It builds against
factory). Or use SDK packages.

>
> Andreas
>
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