Re: Install fails transferring packages syslog


Subject: Re: Install fails transferring packages syslog
From: Adam Dershowitz (dersh@alum.mit.edu)
Date: Sun Dec 16 2001 - 12:37:32 MST


I believe that it is fine to have /home be a HFS partition. But just
to make sure that this is not the problem I have tried installing
without telling it about this, so that it will create it's own /home
directory, with the same results.
The partition that is specified to be the mount point for /home is /dev/sdb8.

--Adam

>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)

-- 

--Adam



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