Re: introduction and squeeze/power64 installs wrong kernel - success
Hi, On 07/28/2011 01:08 AM, Gasha wrote: Finally i get system booted. You should file an installation report. That is one way the installer devs know what to work on. http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch05s04.html#submit-bug -Geoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e32d419.2020...@am.sony.com
Re: introduction and squeeze/power64 installs wrong kernel - success
Finally i get system booted. I already downloaded Fedora 12 DVD latest build, but decided to try harder with Debian. Things i learned: 1) for some reason passing video=ofonly works never for first time, but mostly for second boot try. 2) here you can download daily builds: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/ http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/ 3) there is strange thing (timeout wrong) with SID latest DVD build, you have to press [TAB] before ir shows boot: prompt 4) rescue64 target does not work as expected from latest daily-build.iso 5) if you select Power6 mode on Power7 LPAR, then installer detects 64-bit kernel much better :) 6) debian installer generates wrong yaboot.conf, device= and partition= must be commented out to boot. 7) yabootconfig also does not generate working config. but much better than installer. 8) i decided that UUID is evil, and KISS (keep it simple stupid) works. changed all UUIDs to boot=/dev/sda1, root=/dev/sda2, also removed UUIDs from /etc/fstab 9) hard disk booting also fails for first time, even with append=video=ofonly for first time 10) thanks for help Gasha On 07/27/2011 07:39 PM, David Ricar wrote: On 07/27/2011 02:11 PM, Gasha wrote: Well, it is not so easy... 64-bit kernel loads, but it restarts. For me it looks like loading of initrd stops at the same place, as if there is no video=ofonly parameter specified. Calling ibm,client-architecture-support... Plan B was to try latest testing/wheezy, however latest build is unsuccessful, and ISO from 2011-07-18 has bzip bug:#633782 mailto:633...@bugs.debian.org (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=633782) Any place to download other/older ISO images? I'll try again experiments later... I found this mirror, it should probably be hosted elsewhere too. I'd install the most recent possible and try to debootstrap newest system, or try upgrade. One of these ways should do the job. I have etch upgraded to lenny 64bit debian ppc instalation on IBM JS20, which worked well. I will have to uprgade it soon :) http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/ Cheers David
Re: introduction and squeeze/power64 installs wrong kernel
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:24:44AM +0300, Gasha wrote: Hi list, just a short introduction... i'm a long time unix/linux user, and finally decided to join some linux development mailing lists. recently we got new Power7 machine, and i tried latest-squeeze-netinst.iso yesterday. LPAR install. no luck, cannot boot fresh install. after 2-3 hours of fiddling, i noticed, that Elf32 kernel is being loaded, which ends with tons of errors. Yes, there is a bug. The test in the base-installer package is absurdly specific; it recognizes only specific Power CPUs as being 64-bit, rather than matching on power*, which would make more sense. booting install64 and expert64 installs powerpc-smp kernel (32-bit) rescue64 boots correct (64-bit) kernel. Interesting... tried to install manually 64-bit kernel, but it did not boot anyway :( What error did you get? Were you booting using yaboot? question to list: which image should be good starting point to get one linux LPAR running ? then i can do some more testing. started to download this one: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/powerpc/iso-dvd/ I don't know where you would get a good image for Power7, I'm sorry. Paul. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110727103010.gb13...@bloggs.ozlabs.ibm.com
Re: introduction and squeeze/power64 installs wrong kernel
Well, it is not so easy... 64-bit kernel loads, but it restarts. For me it looks like loading of initrd stops at the same place, as if there is no video=ofonly parameter specified. Calling ibm,client-architecture-support... Plan B was to try latest testing/wheezy, however latest build is unsuccessful, and ISO from 2011-07-18 has bzip bug: #633782 mailto:633...@bugs.debian.org (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=633782) Any place to download other/older ISO images? I'll try again experiments later... Gasha On 07/27/2011 01:30 PM, Paul Mackerras wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:24:44AM +0300, Gasha wrote: Hi list, just a short introduction... i'm a long time unix/linux user, and finally decided to join some linux development mailing lists. recently we got new Power7 machine, and i tried latest-squeeze-netinst.iso yesterday. LPAR install. no luck, cannot boot fresh install. after 2-3 hours of fiddling, i noticed, that Elf32 kernel is being loaded, which ends with tons of errors. Yes, there is a bug. The test in the base-installer package is absurdly specific; it recognizes only specific Power CPUs as being 64-bit, rather than matching on power*, which would make more sense. booting install64 and expert64 installs powerpc-smp kernel (32-bit) rescue64 boots correct (64-bit) kernel. Interesting... tried to install manually 64-bit kernel, but it did not boot anyway :( What error did you get? Were you booting using yaboot?
Re: introduction and squeeze/power64 installs wrong kernel
On 07/27/2011 02:11 PM, Gasha wrote: Well, it is not so easy... 64-bit kernel loads, but it restarts. For me it looks like loading of initrd stops at the same place, as if there is no video=ofonly parameter specified. Calling ibm,client-architecture-support... Plan B was to try latest testing/wheezy, however latest build is unsuccessful, and ISO from 2011-07-18 has bzip bug:#633782 mailto:633...@bugs.debian.org (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=633782) Any place to download other/older ISO images? I'll try again experiments later... I found this mirror, it should probably be hosted elsewhere too. I'd install the most recent possible and try to debootstrap newest system, or try upgrade. One of these ways should do the job. I have etch upgraded to lenny 64bit debian ppc instalation on IBM JS20, which worked well. I will have to uprgade it soon :) http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/ Cheers David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e303f42.1010...@dejf.org
