Forwarded to bug report 352914, first case of yaboot-installer trouble, Nolle, please CC [EMAIL PROTECTED] for any further discussion.
This is on IBM pSeries 620 if i am not wrong. Friendly, Sven LUther On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 05:05:11PM +0100, "Nölle, Christian" wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > >> Comments/Problems: > >> > >> We had problems with creating filesystems. The installer fails to > >> create the prep-Partition properly, so we had to exit to shell, > >> chroot > >> into the target and create in manually with cfdisk. > > > > Can you give : > > > > 1) give me the exact scenario of this "failed to create a prep > > partition" thingy. > > Ok, here comes the thingy: The installer fires up the partitioning dialog > and suggest a certain layout with a partition #1, which should become prep, > but states it as: > > #1 primary 8.2 MB B KÂ Â > > When selecting it, it states a prep partition with the boot flag on. You > continue > and partman only lists an ext3 for / and a swap. We then returned to partman > dialog and > selected it again, same as above. Interesting on that is, if you select the > type in the > detailed view, it gives you the list of possible types with prep on top > stating: > > 10 partman/method_long/prep doesn't exist > > If you choose that entry, the installers ends up in an endless loop of a > senseless dialog > with the very meaningful text ???- ???] and the two options "Go Back" and > "Continue", which > both lead you back to the little meaningful dialog with two options....and so > forth.. :) > > After applying changes to disk and trying to install yaboot via the menu it > states: > > No hard disks were found which have an "Apple_Bootstrap" partition. > You must create an 819200-byte partition with type "Apple_Bootstrap". > > This lead us to the cfdisk solution in the chroot, which worked. > > > 2) give me the exact /proc/cpuinfo output ? > > Sorry for that, my definition in the first mail was wrong. Here is the output: > > processor : 0 > cpu : POWER5 (gr) > clock : 1504.352000MHz > revision : 2.2 > > processor : 1 > cpu : POWER5 (gr) > clock : 1504.352000MHz > revision : 2.2 > > processor : 2 > cpu : POWER5 (gr) > clock : 1504.352000MHz > revision : 2.2 > > processor : 3 > cpu : POWER5 (gr) > clock : 1504.352000MHz > revision : 2.2 > > processor : 4 > cpu : POWER5 (gr) > clock : 1504.352000MHz > revision : 2.2 > > processor : 5 > cpu : POWER5 (gr) > clock : 1504.352000MHz > revision : 2.2 > > processor : 6 > cpu : POWER5 (gr) > clock : 1504.352000MHz > revision : 2.2 > > processor : 7 > cpu : POWER5 (gr) > clock : 1504.352000MHz > revision : 2.2 > > timebase : 188044000 > machine : CHRP IBM,9124-720 > > > >> As we have no video-card in that machine, we used the ssh-Feature of the > >> installer. As we finished the 1st stage, we were prompted with an > >> error message that network-console-config is not avaliable and we > >> have to continue without ssh in the 2nd stage *sigh*. > > > > Yeah, not nice. > > You name it. > > > >> fgconsole: VT_GETSTATE Invalid Argument > >> > >> No input is possible, could not continue with the installation, as we > >> only have the serial console and not the ssh feature avaliable (see > >> above). Any hints!? > > > > Not entirely sure about this one, maybe waldi can comment ? > > Ok. > > > Well, i can help you solve the first issue, and then once this is > > done, we can tackle the second, how does this sound ? > > Good for me :) > > -- > > Mit freundlichem Gruß > > Christian Nölle > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Christian Nölle mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tel : +49(202)4392451 > CIP im Web: http://www.wiwi.uni-wuppertal.de/cip/ > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > Debian-ppc64-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-ppc64-devel > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Wanadoo vous informe que cet e-mail a ete controle par l'anti-virus mail. > Aucun virus connu a ce jour par nos services n'a ete detecte. > > >
