Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation report

2010-10-09 Thread Zsombor
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 12:47 AM, Gary gdri...@gmail.com wrote: I tried this on the same G5 with mostly the same results. I've Bad news. I compile a custom kernel this weekend, setting CONFIG_SCSI_PROC_FS to 'y'. In the official one, it is turned off so no legacy /proc/scsi directory. I will pray

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation report

2010-10-09 Thread Gary Driggs
On Oct 9, 2010, at 9:20 AM, Zsombor wrote: Anyway, does the official installer work on your G5? Last time I checked, none of the unstable or testing installers worked either. It was only by accident that I discovered choosing the advanced option from Lenny does it ask if I want stable,

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation report

2010-10-08 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Don, 2010-10-07 at 22:22 +0200, Zsombor wrote: On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Gary gdri...@gmail.com wrote: Oct 7 19:28:15 kernel: [ 718.054292] ioctl32(nvsetenv:10901): Unknown cmd fd(7) cmd(20007043){t:'p';sz:0} arg(0009) on /dev/nvram I haven't seen this. Maybe some 32-bit

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation report

2010-10-08 Thread xavier grave
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 07/10/2010 20:40, Zsombor a écrit : Thank you everyone for the hosting offers. I'm planning to create other experimental cd-sets regarding to this port (of course with Yaboot 1.3.16), and live-usb images. Please let me know what packages

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation report

2010-10-08 Thread Zsombor
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 12:31 PM, xavier grave xavier.gr...@ipno.in2p3.fr wrote: the ethernet board isn't recognised. My configuration : is a power6 based machine Machine type-model: 8203-E4A My ethernet board needs this module : ehea it seems it's not available : ls

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation report

2010-10-08 Thread xavier grave
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 08/10/2010 14:38, Zsombor a écrit : On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 12:31 PM, xavier grave xavier.gr...@ipno.in2p3.fr wrote: the ethernet board isn't recognised. My configuration : is a power6 based machine Machine type-model: 8203-E4A My ethernet

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation report

2010-10-08 Thread Zsombor
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 3:04 PM, xavier grave xavier.gr...@ipno.in2p3.fr wrote: What kind of installation type did you use? (auto/install/expert) install64 What kind of check do you want me to do ? I meant I'm gonna do some check this installer what modules are included at its boot-time. If

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation report

2010-10-08 Thread Gary Driggs
On Oct 8, 2010, at 9:11 AM, Zsombor wrote: The most bothering issue is the install failure, reported by Gary on his G5. If you have access to the Lenny installer source, it was able to correctly set up my yaboot.conf for a successful install of Squeeze. Thank you for working on this. I've

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation report

2010-10-08 Thread Zsombor
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Gary Driggs gdri...@gmail.com wrote: If you have access to the Lenny installer source, it was able to correctly set up my yaboot.conf for a successful install of Squeeze. Thank you for working on this. I've access to G3 G4 Macs if you want testing on some of

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation report

2010-10-08 Thread Xavier Grave
original message- De: Zsombor zsomb...@gmail.com A: Gary Driggs gdri...@gmail.com Copie à: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 21:17:25 +0200 - Until that, you can try a new iso soon.

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation report

2010-10-08 Thread Gary
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010, Zsombor wrote: Until that, you can try a new iso soon. 32bit and smp kernels are added and also ehea nic module included for 64bit. I started writing a changelog file to know what's happening in new releases. The new files are available at the URL below. I'll try an

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation report

2010-10-08 Thread Gary
I tried this on the same G5 with mostly the same results. I've archived /var/log/* and /etc/yaboot conf here: http://ftp.extensis.com/ppc/logs/ I will give a quick try on a G4 next so if you see additional files with today's date/time stamp then that is what they're from. -Gary -- To

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation report

2010-10-08 Thread Gary Driggs
I tried booting the same disc on a PowerMac G4 (mirrored door) and got a white screen. But the same thing happened with Ubuntu. Are there any issues with yaboot this system and/or the Radeon 9000 Pro card that shipped with these units? I guess I should search the list archive, eh? ;) -Gary

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation report

2010-10-08 Thread brian m. carlson
On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 07:26:43PM -0700, Gary Driggs wrote: I tried booting the same disc on a PowerMac G4 (mirrored door) and got a white screen. But the same thing happened with Ubuntu. Are there any issues with yaboot this system and/or the Radeon 9000 Pro card that shipped with these

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation report

2010-10-07 Thread Zsombor
Thank you everyone for the hosting offers. I'm planning to create other experimental cd-sets regarding to this port (of course with Yaboot 1.3.16), and live-usb images. Please let me know what packages should be included. I see more Mac users than IBM PowerPC but it seems it works well on both.

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation report

2010-10-07 Thread Gary
I just tested this disc on a G5 Mac and got the following error: Oct 7 19:28:15 os-prober: Oct 7 19:28:15 os-prober: No volume groups found Oct 7 19:28:15 os-prober: Oct 7 19:28:15 os-prober: debug: running /usr/lib/os-probes/50mounted-tests on /dev/sda1 Oct 7 19:28:15 50mounted-tests:

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation report

2010-10-07 Thread Zsombor
Thank you. I'm sure I will need help to solve this. The official image works, so something must be missing from this di. What FS do you use on sda3? On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Gary gdri...@gmail.com wrote: I just tested this disc on a G5 Mac and got the following error: (...) Oct  7

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation report

2010-10-07 Thread Gary
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Zsombor wrote: What FS do you use on sda3? It was a blank drive but it formatted it with ext3. Additionally, I forgot to include the 32-bit kernel in this ISO. That's OK as this was using the 64-bit installer... good thing I couldn't get it to work on the G4

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation report

2010-10-07 Thread Gary
It ought to look something closer to this when finished (same system, different drive)... boot=/dev/sda2 ofboot=/h...@0,f200/p...@5/k2-sata-r...@c/k2-s...@0/d...@0:2 device=/h...@0,f200/p...@5/k2-sata-r...@c/k2-s...@0/d...@0: partition=4 root=/dev/sda4 timeout=100

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation report

2010-10-06 Thread zsombibi
Hi, I've repackaged yaboot 1.3.16 with modified mkofboot symlink and created a minimal di cdrom iso (~230MB). This installer works without any issue. It is a very minimal installer with some additional packages, under profile 'bah' : bzip2 ifenslave-2.6 iptables joe

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation report

2010-10-06 Thread xavier grave
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 06/10/2010 14:56, zsomb...@gmail.com a écrit : Hi, I've repackaged yaboot 1.3.16 with modified mkofboot symlink and created a minimal di cdrom iso (~230MB). This installer works without any issue. It is a very minimal installer with some

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation report

2010-10-06 Thread Zsombor
Thank you all. Temporarly, I uploaded the ISO, md5 and the important README file to: http://visaportal.hu/dl/debppc/ Where you can download them. Gary, I already uploaded the ISO to your ftp site. MD5 checksum is: 6278f3a71c19828e4532578e81fbf0ef Thank you again, Zsombor On Wed, Oct 6, 2010

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation report

2010-10-06 Thread Gary
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Zsombor wrote: . MD5 checksum is: 6278f3a71c19828e4532578e81fbf0ef Everyone can download from here for testing. In a few weeks I'll remove the files but am happy to host additional iterations. http://ftp.extensis.com/it/deb/debian-unstable-ppc-bah.iso

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation

2010-10-05 Thread Zsombor
Hello All, I've created a minimal installer CD with yaboot 1.3.16 and tried on my Power5 machine. The installer is based on squeeze repo. Near the finish, yaboot installer failed: Oct 5 14:11:33 yaboot-installer: info: ofpath returned nothing; leaving out device= line and praying Oct 5

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation

2010-10-05 Thread Gary Driggs
On Oct 5, 2010, at 6:12 AM, Zsombor wrote: Do you have any advise? Maybe I missed something from the installer? Folks are in the process of fixing that. In the mean time, the best way to install testing or unstable is to use the advanced option from the stable install discs. kind regards,

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation

2010-10-05 Thread Gunther Furtado
2010/10/5 Gary Driggs gdri...@gmail.com: On Oct 5, 2010, at 6:12 AM, Zsombor wrote: Do you have any advise? Maybe I missed something from the installer? Folks are in the process of fixing that. In the mean time, the best way to install testing or unstable is to use the advanced option from

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation

2010-10-05 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi, Le mardi 05 octobre 2010 à 15:12 +0200, Zsombor a écrit : Oct 5 14:11:33 yaboot-installer: chroot: can't execute 'mkofboot': No such file or directory This is a packaging mistake, already reported here, and fixed in my git repo. But the package is not up to date. I included the official

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation

2010-10-05 Thread Zsombor
Hello all, Thanks for the suggests, I'm going to change to sid. As I dont like to give up, some further investigation made me clear that mkofboot is a link to /ybin instead of simply ybin. After rebooted in rescue mode, and running ybin manually, prep part. has been set up properly and now the

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation

2010-10-01 Thread Zsombor
Thank you Benjamin, On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Benjamin Cama ben...@free.fr wrote: My IBM p550 has a squeeze on an ext3-fs but I prefer xfs. I don't want to disappoint you, but I don't see in the logs of 1.3.16 anything new regarding xfs: it ought to be the same as 1.3.13a. Maybe the