Hi Michael, On Fri, 2024-03-01 at 12:56 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote: > OK. > > That second iso boots OK for me in qemu. It boots grub and then the > kernel loads and shows: > > Loading ... > OF stdout device is: /pci@f0000000/mac-io@c/escc@13000/ch-a@13020 > Preparing to boot Linux version 6.3.0-1-powerpc64 > (debian-ker...@lists.debian.org) (gcc-12 (Debian 12.3.0-2) 12.3.0, GNU ld > (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.40) #1 SMP Debian 6.3.7-1 (2023-06-12) > Detected machine type: 0000000000000400 > command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/install/vmlinux --- quiet > memory layout at init: > memory_limit : 0000000000000000 (16 MB aligned) > alloc_bottom : 0000000005e70000 > alloc_top : 0000000030000000 > alloc_top_hi : 0000000080000000 > rmo_top : 0000000030000000 > ram_top : 0000000080000000 > copying OF device tree... > Building dt strings... > Building dt structure... > Device tree strings 0x0000000005e80000 -> 0x0000000005e80560 > Device tree struct 0x0000000005e90000 -> 0x0000000005ea0000 > Quiescing Open Firmware ... > Booting Linux via __start() @ 0x0000000002000000 ... > Hello World ! > smp_core99_probe > smp_core99_bringup_done > Starting system log daemon: syslogd, klogd. > > And eventually starts the installer.
Yep, the second, older image works as expected. However, the recent one does not and I have absolutely no clue why. > That's using no VGA, so possibly there's something wrong with the video > setup on real hardware: > > $ qemu-system-ppc64 -nographic -vga none -M mac99,via=pmu -smp 1 -m 2G -nic > user -drive > file=$HOME/debian-12.0.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.2023-06-18.iso,format=raw,media=cdrom > -boot d > > I'll try and find time to test it on my actual G5 next week when I'm in > the office. The video issue can usually be worked around by disabling mode-setting or passing other kernel options related to the video card. That's not the main problem here though. The problem is that the newer image doesn't boot and currently I don't know why because installing the exact same kernel later from the package manager into an installed system works yields a bootable system with the latest kernel. The installer images are built from the same kernel package which makes the whole thing even more confusing. I'm using debian-cd to build the installation images: > https://salsa.debian.org/images-team/debian-cd/ Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
