On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 09:41:39PM +0100, Richard Wale wrote: > Thanks for the reply Sven, comments below. > Cheers Rich. > > On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 14:45, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 09:15:21AM +0100, Richard Wale wrote: > > > Howdy, > > > > > > I've had a Debian running happily on a 7025/F50 > > > RS/6000 for a number of years, after follows some > > > steps posted on this mailing list. Using the rsync > > > sources from source.mvista.com, I've had both 2.4.x > > > and 2.6.x kernels working. 2.6 really made it fly, > > > gnome is now pretty quick to use. > > > > Notice that the debian 2.4.25 kernel has been tried on both a F50 and a > > B50, presumably the 2.6.6 kernel should also, it has probably never been > > tested though, and there could be problems with the initrd. > > > > That also means that the debian-installer should work out of the box on > > that hardware. > > > > > I initially I was copying the kernel to floppy or CD > > > and using the SMS to boot the rootfs on the internal > > > disks; however in recent times I was able to get > > > yaboot to install and work. > > > > > > Sadly looks like I have to soon give up my desktop > > > (well under-desk) machine and swap it for an intel > > > box. > > > > BTW, what will happen to the old box ? > The F50 will be turning from desktop back to server, to be a test > Management Server for a CSM Cluster. > > > > > > Would anyone be interested in me posting my kernel > > > .configs or my XF86Config-4? I didn't know if any of > > > the ppc maintainers might find them useful? > > > > It would always be usefull, altough i think that at least for the > > .config we already did the work for it. If you could try out the 2.6.6 > > kernel package before you lose access to the box, that would be great. > > That and the debian-installer too. > I downloaded the debian 2.6.6 source and successfully compiled a SMP > kernel. > > I had to change my yaboot config to get the kernel to boot (not a > problem with the debian kernel, I'd had the same issue with kernel's > past 2.6.3 built from the mvista source). Booting would fail to > mount/find the rootfs.
You didn't try the precompiled debian kernel (kernel-image-2.6.6-powerpc-smp) ? Friendly, Sven Luther
