Hello Len 1; Yes, we are using the MBR Partition table 2; the PreP partition is 8MB and has the Boot flag set to on 3; Debian is running on bare-metal, no hypervisor involved 3; Correct, the installer boots with no issues at all and it's only after the reboot when try to boot the installation from the HDD that both bootloaders just stall/fail 4; We are using a 1GB USB Memory stick as the installation media 5; we are using the Debian 10 SID NETINST for PPC64 dated 2020-05-30, the reason we're not using the latest snapshot is because the latest one (2020-10-13) fails with 'missing-firmware /dev/.udev missing firmware' and the installation media fails to mount
If you need any more information don't hesitate to ask -- Dein On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 at 18:50, Lennart Sorensen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 01, 2020 at 09:24:08PM +0000, Deinsti Suski wrote: > > Recently me and a friend of mine have been trying to install Debian Sid > on > > an IBM pSeries 550 server to no avail; we have attempted a variety of > > methods such as installing GRUB with everything on an / ext4 partition, > > GRUB with a separate ext2 /boot and ext4 /, Yaboot with everything on an > > ext4 / and Yaboot with a ext2 /boot and ext4 / - however none of them > work; > > > > For GRUB, it just freezes at 'Welcome to GRUB!' with no disk activity and > > it never continues no matter the partition setup while for Yaboot, it > > always fails at > > "can't get <device_type> for device: <NULL> > > <NULL>:-1,ls: Unable to open file, Invalid device" > > > > we tried altering yaboot.conf by swapping out uuid's with /dev/sda2 among > > other things but no matter what it's always the same error > > > > The hardware is an IBM pSeries 550 Server > > Processors: 4x IBM POWER6 cards with 2-Cores at 4GHz each (Total: 8 > Cores) > > RAM: 92GB > > HDD: Single 300GB drive (No RAID) > > > > Do you have any suggestions on how to get this system to boot? > > I haven't done an install in quite a few years but I have a few question: > > Are you using dos partition table (MBR style)? > How large is the PREP boot partition? Is it set as bootable? > > I seem to recall an 8MB prep boot partition is pretty standard and should > be plenty for grub. > > Are you running on bare metal or is there a hypervisor involved? > > Does the installer boot fine and only the system after installation > won't boot? > > What media are you booting the installer from? > > Which installer image are you using? > > -- > Len Sorensen >
