On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 01:51:51PM -0500, Mike Martin wrote: > I have a 43p-140, It will netboot, start the installer and let be run > through the motions. It doesn't seem to be able to recognize the cdrom > or be able to set up the network. This puts a stop on the installation > pretty quickly. I can't seem to figure it out on my own. Can anyone > help? > > Attached is a console capture from my latest boot using the Dec. 28th > image from: > http://people.debian.org/~luther/debian-installer/daily-powerpc-built/daily/powerpc/netboot/ > > Other images are similar.
Could you try to get the /var/log/syslog and /var/log/messages out of that box ? > When the installer gets to configuring the network with DHCP, it > fails. "tcpdump" on the server interface shows no traffic after the > tftp image is transfered. Mmm, could this be similar to : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=283329 I am trying the install on a motorola powerstack (utah board), which has a decchip (de4x5) ethernet, and things are worse, the machine freezes when trying to ifup the interface : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=287933 I get some strange feeling that something is seriously wrong with the 2.6 kernels on prep hardware. Let me CC this to linuxppc-dev mailing lists too. I will not have time to look into this problem before next year though :), and probably not before a week or so at that. Friendly, Sven Luther
