Wheezy installer on IBM Power LPAR with disk multipathing via dual VIOS

2014-01-21 Thread Frank Fegert
Hello, some time ago i was contacted by Philippe Hermes and Thibaud Besson - both @IBM France - about an installation walkthrough for Debian on IBM Power LPARs which i wrote earlier. They've noticed, that with the Wheezy installer things would go sour, once the installation target disks were

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing

2014-01-21 Thread Matthias Klose
Am 16.01.2014 13:31, schrieb Aníbal Monsalve Salazar: For mips/mipsel, I - fix toolchain issues together with other developers at ImgTec It is nice to see such a commitment, however in the past I didn't see any such contributions. Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing

2014-01-21 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 01:43:55PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: Am 16.01.2014 13:31, schrieb Aníbal Monsalve Salazar: For mips/mipsel, I - fix toolchain issues together with other developers at ImgTec It is nice to see such a commitment, however in the past I didn't see any such

Re: Newbie installation questions

2014-01-21 Thread gw [j] iza [b] superstar
Hi Geoff, Maybe you thought of this, but now that you have burned a cd anyway, at the openfirmware prompt do like: boot cd:, yaboot.conf ...then within Debian installer during the partitioning section you can select the drive you want to install to, and make sure the Apple_bootstrap [bootable

Re: Newbie installation questions

2014-01-21 Thread gw [j] iza [b] superstar
...and if it doesn't find the yaboot file, also point to the exact location of the yaboot.conf for that cd If i remember right, it is [path]yaboot.conf e.g. boot cd:, /install/yaboot.conf On Tuesday 21 January 2014 15:00:24 gw [j] iza [b] superstar wrote: Hi Geoff, Maybe you thought of this,

Re: Newbie installation questions

2014-01-21 Thread Geoff Down
Hi JB, Risto suggested the same thing - it worked, I was able to run the installer all the way through. I went for the default options on the whole, except I enabled Gnome. When I try to boot into Linux now, I can do so at the boot: prompt (though there seem to be two - the first seems to run the

Re: Newbie installation questions

2014-01-21 Thread Risto Suominen
Hi Geoff, The partitions are fine. The first prompt if ofboot (Open Firmware), where you can choose between partitions: Linux and OS X. The second one is yaboot, where you can type 'Linux 1' to get into single user mode prompt. Risto 2014/1/21, Geoff Down geoffd...@fastmail.net: PS I also get