Re: Install fails transferring packages syslog


Subject: Re: Install fails transferring packages syslog
From: Gordon Neault (gordo-x@shaw.ca)
Date: Sat Dec 15 2001 - 14:13:39 MST


Why do you have /home on sdb formatted as HFS? Which partition (/home
HFS or /home dev/sbd8) is specified by mount point as /home?
Seems strange to me. If you need a partition readable by both MacOS and
Linux HFS is fine (name it /share, or whatever), but I would have a
ext_2 filesystem for /home.

On Friday, December 14, 2001, at 08:48 PM, Adam Dershowitz wrote:

> I still can't get past "transferring packages" followed by "error
> running transaction set" and "please correct this manually"
> and I have tried a bunch of different things (text only, and graphic
> installer, downloading the image from a different mirror and reburning
> it, format then reboot and install, default and custom install, many
> packages and disabling a bunch of them, I tried creating a bootloader
> partition, just in case the installer tried to write to that...) .
>
> I am running on a 7300 with a G3 card in it, although it had been a 200
> (A bunch of people on this list have had problems installing on
> 7300/200s, I wonder if that is a coincidence?). The machine has the
> original 2G harddrive and also has a larger one that is part HFS+ and
> then has an HFS partition (as my /home) and then has the partitions for
> Linux on that same drive.
>
> I did have linuxPPC on this machine but have used the 2.1 installer to
> reformat the root partition.
>
> The installer does mount the root partition (/dev/sdb6) as /tmp/root
> and also mounts my old /home (/dev/sbd8) as /tmp/home but clearly
> something is very wrong.
>
> I was able to use the text installer and to save my syslog. I don't
> understand a bunch of what is in the system log, but I hope that
> someone can take a look at the seconds half of this file and help me
> make sense of it.
>
> Any other suggestions of what to try, or what is wrong, would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
>
> Thanks so much,
>
> --Adam
>
> syslog:
>
>
> <5>RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> <5>RAMDISK: Loading compressed image into ram disk...
> Uncompressing........................................................................done
> disk #1.
> <4>done.
> <4>Freeing initrd memory: 3611k freed
> <4>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
> <4>Freeing unused kernel memory: 328k init 8k chrp 8k prep
> <6>hub.c: USB new device connect on bus4/1, assigned device number 2
> <6>hub.c: USB hub found
> <6>hub.c: 4 ports detected
> <7>VFS: Disk change detected on device sr(11,0)
> <7>ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
> <3>kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k nls_iso8859-1, errno = 2
> <3>kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k nls_iso8859-1, errno = 2
> <7>ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
> <4>SCSI device sdb: 17850000 512-byte hdwr sectors (9139 MB)
> <6> /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target1/lun0: [mac] p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 p6 p7 p8 p9
> p10 p11
> <6>Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
> <7>VFS: Disk change detected on device sd(8,32)
> <4>sdc : READ CAPACITY failed.
> <4>sdc : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08
> <4>Current sd00:00: sense key Not Ready
> <4>Additional sense indicates Medium not present
> <4>sdc : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
> <6> /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target5/lun0: I/O error: dev 08:20, sector 0
> <4> unable to read partition table
> <6>Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
> <7>VFS: Disk change detected on device sd(8,32)
> <4>sdc : READ CAPACITY failed.
> <4>sdc : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08
> <4>Current sd00:00: sense key Not Ready
> <4>Additional sense indicates Medium not present
> <4>sdc : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
> <6> /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target5/lun0: I/O error: dev 08:20, sector 0
> <4> unable to read partition table
> <6>Adding Swap: 102388k swap-space (priority -1)
>



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