Hi Adrian,
On 21.01.19 12:48, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
I have created updated installation images for Debian Ports,
please find the updated images below and test them [1].
[1] https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2019-01-21/
Thanks again for your efforts!
I did initial tests with a 32bit machine (with qemu), and
with a 64bit physical machine. Qemu-howto is available here:
https://parisc.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Qemu
Both had minor issues which maybe partly have happened due to
the way I tested.
1. The qemu machine was started (by mistake) with 2 virtual 32-bit CPUs, although
we currently provide only 32-bit UP kernels in the repos.
I think this is why it failed to install a bootable kernel in the end:
┌────────────────────┤ [!] Install the base system ├────────────────────┐
│ │
┌│ No installable kernel was found in the defined APT sources. │
││ │
││ You may try to continue without a kernel, and manually install your │
││ own kernel later. This is only recommended for experts, otherwise you │
││ will likely end up with a machine that doesn't boot. │
││ │
└│ Continue without installing a kernel?
I think this will be fixed when we continue with providing the combined UP/SMP kernels with kernel 4.20 (or higher).
I think this would not have happened when I would have booted a virtual machine with only one CPU. I will need to test that again later.
2. I ran the 64bit installation on a 64-bit rp5470 machine, but I did not burned an installation CD, but instead used "dd" to dump the ISO to an empty hard disc from which I booted. This sounds strange but basically works.
The problem I faced with this method was, that the installer complained
during partioning calculation, that the kernel has no support for "Software-RAID (md)" and "LVM". Either the modules were forgotten for the 64bit kernel in the initramfs, or it failed to find them on the "virtual" CD.
I will look into both issues again later.
One thing which is maybe important:
We have not yet imported the old palo- and aboot- (for alpha machines)
related d-i code into salsa d-i git repositories. The latest git dumps are still downloadable here:
https://alioth-archive.debian.org/git/d-i/attic/partman-palo.git.tar.xz https://alioth-archive.debian.org/git/d-i/attic/palo-installer.git.tar.xz https://alioth-archive.debian.org/git/d-i/attic/aboot-installer.git.tar.xz https://alioth-archive.debian.org/git/d-i/attic/srm-reader.git.tar.xz
Are you planning to request import of those into d-i in the salsa repositories?
Helge
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