Package: yaboot-installer On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 03:11:04PM +1300, Bobby Cheema wrote: > Hi seven luther
Sorry for taking such a long time to reply, i was rather busy these past time. > I am new to power and facing a lot of trouble installing linux I > actually have a lot of problems (My lack of understanding) . > 1) I created VIO (Suse ) and offered one LVM to one of my lpar. I did > it exactly as explained in the manual , However when i activated my > lpar i could not see the disk i was able to see virtual network card and > ide cdrom (I thought may be because i dont have boot information on disk > , thats why it is not visible) so i booted off the cdrom (Trying to Ok, so you tried booting debian, can you tell me exactly what media did you use exactly. (complete URL to it ?) > install debian testing ) and after loading the ibmvscsi disk driver I > could see the disk that i configured through VIO i partitioned that disk > and able to install debian i finished off but it failed to write yaboot Ahah, this is indeed a yaboot-installer bug, i think you should file a bug report against yaboot-installer explaining all this. > as it complained about not having an apple partition I exited the > install created a small apple partition (type 41 ) and restarted the > installation it worked fine it even wrote the yaboot and made the > partition bootable but again when i rebooted the lpar it could not see You need a prep partition (type 0x81) and ybin (the yaboot copying of binary) or whatever needs to recognize your machine as a ibm/chrp box, and act accordyingly. You could try installing using prep-installer, which should work on your system, but you need to create a prep partition, and i guess partman-prep doesn't recognize your box as needing a prep aprtition. Colin, would you comment on this, i believe we need some other kind of sanity checks, one that makes sure that there is a prep partition on such machine, even though they use yaboot. I wonder why partman-prep did not do the right thing though. > the disk only cdrom and vlan adapter was available , I am configuring it > manually on VIO as explained in the manual from the top of my head i > guess it was > cd /sys/device/vio/300000{hexadecimal of virtual slotnumber}/bus0/target0/ > echo 0 > active # i guess to disable disk > echo "my lvm part" > device > echo b > type # what this b means ? > echo 0 > ro # i guess this is to make partition rw and **not** Ro > > is there anything I am missing after this ? why is it that when i boot > from cdrom and load the ibmvscsi driver i could see the disk but not > from the sms prompt No idea. > well once I capture upto this point than i will start further. At the > momment i am stuck :'( , any help in this regard would be greatly > appreciated :-) hope this helped a bit, but i fear it is a bug in the installer, maybe fixed in a later version than the one you used, not sure though. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]