No problem! It was a fun adventure tracking it down! (-;
On Sun, Apr 19, 2020, at 1:41 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
> On 19.04.20 10:36, Rick Thomas wrote:
> > OK
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 18, 2020, at 11:47 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
> >> You need to use the `ofpathname` from the `mac-support` branch
OK
On Sat, Apr 18, 2020, at 11:47 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
> Hi Rick,
>
> nice to hear from you!
>
> On 19.04.20 00:10, Rick Thomas wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 18, 2020, at 1:58 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> >> You should test with ofpathname as well.
> >
> > OK, I will. Is there an
On 19.04.20 10:36, Rick Thomas wrote:
OK
On Sat, Apr 18, 2020, at 11:47 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
You need to use the `ofpathname` from the `mac-support` branch mentioned
on [2]. You can either download it directly from [3] or `git clone
https://github.com/glaubitz/powerpc-utils.git` and do a
Hi Frank!
On 4/19/20 8:47 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
>> OK, I will. Is there an updated version of ofpathname I should be using?
>> If so how do I get it?
>
> Check [1] and [2] for details.
>
> [1]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2020/04/msg00075.html
>
> [2]:
Hi Rick,
nice to hear from you!
On 19.04.20 00:10, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Sat, Apr 18, 2020, at 1:58 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
You should test with ofpathname as well.
OK, I will. Is there an updated version of ofpathname I should be using? If
so how do I get it?
Check [1]
On Sat, Apr 18, 2020, at 1:58 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> You should test with ofpathname as well.
OK, I will. Is there an updated version of ofpathname I should be using? If
so how do I get it?
Thanks!
Rick
OK here it is with the fixed ofpath...
rbthomas@kmac:~/tmp/usr/sbin$ ./ofpath /dev/sda
/ht@0,f200/pci@5/k2-sata-root@c/@0/@0
rbthomas@kmac:~/tmp/usr/sbin$ ./ofpath /dev/sdb
/ht@0,f200/pci@5/k2-sata-root@c/@1/@0
rbthomas@kmac:~/tmp/usr/sbin$ ./ofpath /dev/sda1
On 4/18/20 10:57 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
> OK here it is with the fixed ofpath...
>
> rbthomas@kmac:~/tmp/usr/sbin$ ./ofpath /dev/sda
> /ht@0,f200/pci@5/k2-sata-root@c/@0/@0
> rbthomas@kmac:~/tmp/usr/sbin$ ./ofpath /dev/sdb
> /ht@0,f200/pci@5/k2-sata-root@c/@1/@0
>
On 4/18/20 4:18 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
>>> Now, the only test I would like to see is whether ofpath sees a difference
>>> between "sda" and "sdb" because apparently, Romain got identical paths
>>> with ofpathname for both his disks.
>
> Here's what I ge on my PowerMacc7,3 PCI-X machine It
> > Now, the only test I would like to see is whether ofpath sees a difference
> > between "sda" and "sdb" because apparently, Romain got identical paths
> > with ofpathname for both his disks.
Here's what I ge on my PowerMacc7,3 PCI-X machine It appears that ofpath gives
the same answer for
On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 09:48:47PM +, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> On 4/17/20 9:18 PM, Michael Cree wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 07:28:37AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > > On 4/17/20 1:18 AM, Michael Cree wrote:
> > > > There was no forgetting; only a misreading of the original
On 4/17/20 9:18 PM, Michael Cree wrote:
On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 07:28:37AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 4/17/20 1:18 AM, Michael Cree wrote:
There was no forgetting; only a misreading of the original message
when skim-reading due to being in a hurry. You have a habbit of
making
On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 07:28:37AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 4/17/20 1:18 AM, Michael Cree wrote:
> > There was no forgetting; only a misreading of the original message
> > when skim-reading due to being in a hurry. You have a habbit of
> > making negative assumptions of people
On 4/17/20 12:55 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> OK, I got it now:
I have uploaded patched versions of the powerpc-utils and grub-installer
packages and will build test images tomorrow - I have to wait for the
mirrors to sync.
Tomorrow we will find out whether my changes work.
Adrian
--
On 4/17/20 11:28 AM, Romain Dolbeau wrote:
> Le ven. 17 avr. 2020 à 11:26, Jeffrey Walton a écrit :
>> If no one offers SSH access
>
> I'm going to try to let Adrian plays with my Quad, but if you have a
> different/older models the ability to try/port on it as well might be
> valuable
Le ven. 17 avr. 2020 à 11:26, Jeffrey Walton a écrit :
> If no one offers SSH access
I'm going to try to let Adrian plays with my Quad, but if you have a
different/older models the ability to try/port on it as well might be
valuable nonetheless.
Cordially,
--
Romain Dolbeau
On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 5:03 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
wrote:
>
> On 4/17/20 10:51 AM, Romain Dolbeau wrote:
> > Le ven. 17 avr. 2020 à 10:37, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> > a écrit :
> >> I have come up with this patch, can you test it on the mac-support branch?
> >
> > No cigars:
> >
> > ...
On 4/17/20 10:51 AM, Romain Dolbeau wrote:
> Le ven. 17 avr. 2020 à 10:37, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> a écrit :
>> I have come up with this patch, can you test it on the mac-support branch?
>
> No cigars:
>
> dolbeau@powermacg5:~/powerpc-utils$ sudo ./scripts/ofpathname sda
>
Le ven. 17 avr. 2020 à 10:37, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
a écrit :
> I have come up with this patch, can you test it on the mac-support branch?
No cigars:
dolbeau@powermacg5:~/powerpc-utils$ sudo ./scripts/ofpathname sda
/ht@0,f200/pci@9/k2-sata-root@c/@0
The first added line on your patch
Hi!
On 4/17/20 10:20 AM, Romain Dolbeau wrote:
> Le ven. 17 avr. 2020 à 10:17, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> a écrit :
>> Can you edit Yaboot's ofpath script and set DEBUG=1, then run "ofpath" on
>> both
>> /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1?
>
> First on the drives just in case, then on the partitions as
Le ven. 17 avr. 2020 à 10:17, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
a écrit :
> Can you edit Yaboot's ofpath script and set DEBUG=1, then run "ofpath" on both
> /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1?
First on the drives just in case, then on the partitions as requested:
#
dolbeau@powermacg5:~$ sudo ./ofpath.debug
On 4/17/20 10:05 AM, Romain Dolbeau wrote:
> Maybe 'lssci' can help with your question?
>
> dolbeau@powermacg5:~$ lsscsi -tv
> [0:0:0:0]cd/dvd ata:/dev/sr0
> dir: /sys/bus/scsi/devices/0:0:0:0
>
Le ven. 17 avr. 2020 à 09:27, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
a écrit :
> Or maybe the plug ID is identical to the LUN in this case?
Maybe 'lssci' can help with your question?
dolbeau@powermacg5:~$ lsscsi -tv
[0:0:0:0]cd/dvd ata:/dev/sr0
dir:
On 4/17/20 9:25 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Can you test whether the following patch fixes the problem?
>
> diff --git a/scripts/ofpathname b/scripts/ofpathname
> index 375154e..3564485 100755
> --- a/scripts/ofpathname
> +++ b/scripts/ofpathname
> @@ -955,7 +955,7 @@ l2of_scsi()
>
On 4/17/20 9:23 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> It would be handy to have access to a G5 running Linux now. It seems that
> get_hbtl() needs to be extended to include the target ID in its output.
Never mind, it's actually "ID" in the function get_hbtl().
Can you test whether the following
On 4/17/20 9:05 AM, Romain Dolbeau wrote:
> Le jeu. 16 avr. 2020 à 21:31, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> a écrit :
>>> And if my reading of OF 'dev / ls' is correct, the disks should be:
>>> /ht@0,f200/pci@9/k2-sata-root@c/k2-sata@0/disk@0
>>> /ht@0,f200/pci@9/k2-sata-root@c/k2-sata@1/disk@0
Le jeu. 16 avr. 2020 à 21:31, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
a écrit :
> > And if my reading of OF 'dev / ls' is correct, the disks should be:
> > /ht@0,f200/pci@9/k2-sata-root@c/k2-sata@0/disk@0
> > /ht@0,f200/pci@9/k2-sata-root@c/k2-sata@1/disk@0
> What does ofpath say?
Still says:
On 4/17/20 7:42 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> On 4/16/20 11:18 PM, Michael Cree wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 01:03:49AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>
> Just running a quick install test of the 2020-04-16 ppc64 installer on a
> G5 and I select "no" for the EFI path grub option which
On 4/16/20 11:18 PM, Michael Cree wrote:
On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 01:03:49AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Just running a quick install test of the 2020-04-16 ppc64 installer on a
G5 and I select "no" for the EFI path grub option which then shows me :
[!!] Install the GRUB boot
On 4/17/20 1:18 AM, Michael Cree wrote:
> There was no forgetting; only a misreading of the original message
> when skim-reading due to being in a hurry. You have a habbit of
> making negative assumptions of people who are only trying to help
> which is, frankly, not appreciated.
Not sure how
On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 01:03:49AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 4/17/20 12:39 AM, Michael Cree wrote:
> > Machine (from /proc/cpuinfo):
> > cpu : PPC970MP, altivec supported
> > motherboard : PowerMac11,2 MacRISC4 Power Macintosh
> > detected as : 337 (PowerMac G5 Dual
On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 06:07:29PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Done. Could someone perform tests on various Mac systems, please and
> provide the output of "ofpathname /dev/sda1", "ofpathname /dev/sd2"
> and - if available - "ofpathname /dev/sdb1" and provide the same output
> from
On 4/17/20 12:39 AM, Michael Cree wrote:
> Machine (from /proc/cpuinfo):
> cpu : PPC970MP, altivec supported
> motherboard : PowerMac11,2 MacRISC4 Power Macintosh
> detected as : 337 (PowerMac G5 Dual Core)
>
> Running yaboot (1.3.17-4+ports1) ofpath:
> root@joule:~# ofpath
Hi Adrian,
On 16.04.20 21:25, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hi Frank!
On 4/16/20 8:49 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
Alternatively, can someone run the ofpathname command from the powerpc-utils
package on different physical disks, e.g. sda1 and sdb1 and do the same with
the ofpath command?
On 4/16/20 8:53 PM, Romain Dolbeau wrote:
> Le jeu. 16 avr. 2020 à 20:38, Romain Dolbeau a écrit :
>> In case tracing the script a bit could be helpful, I attach the log
>> from tuning 'sudo bash -x ~/powerpc-utils/scripts/ofpathname /dev/sda
>> 2>&1 | tee /tmp/log'.
>
> And if my reading of OF
Hi Frank!
On 4/16/20 8:49 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
>> Alternatively, can someone run the ofpathname command from the powerpc-utils
>> package on different physical disks, e.g. sda1 and sdb1 and do the same with
>> the ofpath command?
>
> Sorry, I can't be of help ATM, as my G5s are all in
On 4/16/20 8:53 PM, Romain Dolbeau wrote:
> And if my reading of OF 'dev / ls' is correct, the disks should be:
>
> /ht@0,f200/pci@9/k2-sata-root@c/k2-sata@0/disk@0
>
> /ht@0,f200/pci@9/k2-sata-root@c/k2-sata@1/disk@0
What does ofpath say?
Adrian
--
.''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
:
On 4/16/20 8:45 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
>> dolbeau@powermacg5:~$ ls -l /usr/sbin/ofpath*
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24392 Apr 14 2019 /usr/sbin/ofpath
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Jan 26 10:49 /usr/sbin/ofpathname ->
>> /usr/sbin/ofpath
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 40016 Feb 10 2019
On 4/16/20 8:38 PM, Romain Dolbeau wrote:
> Anyway - here's the result with your branch, the only difference I see
> is that 'scsi' & 'sd' are gone:
>
> #
> dolbeau@powermacg5:~/powerpc-utils$ git status
> On branch mac-support
> Your branch is up to date with 'origin/mac-support'.
> nothing
Le jeu. 16 avr. 2020 à 20:38, Romain Dolbeau a écrit :
> In case tracing the script a bit could be helpful, I attach the log
> from tuning 'sudo bash -x ~/powerpc-utils/scripts/ofpathname /dev/sda
> 2>&1 | tee /tmp/log'.
And if my reading of OF 'dev / ls' is correct, the disks should be:
Hi Adrian,
On 16.04.20 17:23, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
I have finally found some time to work on this issue again.
Nice!
First things first, I have reviewed the messages in this thread and compared
it with the source code and the knowledge about the hardware I have.
I have
Hi guys,
On 16.04.20 20:38, Romain Dolbeau wrote:
First, the mystery was solved by the almighty command 'ls', turns out
it's not exactly a patch:
dolbeau@powermacg5:~$ ls -l /usr/sbin/ofpath*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24392 Apr 14 2019 /usr/sbin/ofpath
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root16 Jan 26 10:49
Le jeu. 16 avr. 2020 à 20:09, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
a écrit :
> Ok, so on the G4 FW800, you should see "ofpath" and "ofpathname" showing
> _different_ OF paths.
Which I do, so that's OK.
> Can you now try the patched version from my Github repo on your G5?
First, the mystery was solved by
On 4/16/20 8:01 PM, Romain Dolbeau wrote:
> Le jeu. 16 avr. 2020 à 19:53, Romain Dolbeau a écrit :
>>> which is why I suspect the ofpathname script on the G4 FW800 machine has
>>> been
>>> patched.
>> Apparently, it _has_ been patched on the G5
>
> I checked, it's vanilla on the G4 FW800.
Ok,
Le jeu. 16 avr. 2020 à 19:53, Romain Dolbeau a écrit :
> > which is why I suspect the ofpathname script on the G4 FW800 machine has
> > been
> > patched.
> Apparently, it _has_ been patched on the G5
I checked, it's vanilla on the G4 FW800.
Cordially,
--
Romain Dolbeau
On 4/16/20 7:53 PM, Romain Dolbeau wrote:
> Le jeu. 16 avr. 2020 à 19:38, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> a écrit :
>> Basically, your G4 FW800 the ofpathname script outputs the correct path
>> and it also doesn't expect the error message as on your G5
>
> I'm not sure I follow - the error message
Le jeu. 16 avr. 2020 à 19:38, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
a écrit :
> Basically, your G4 FW800 the ofpathname script outputs the correct path
> and it also doesn't expect the error message as on your G5
I'm not sure I follow - the error message appears on the G4FW800, not on the G5?
> which is
Hi Stan!
On 4/16/20 7:38 PM, user...@yahoo.com wrote:
> The following information is from a PPC G5, 2.2 GHz, 2 processors.
> Disk /dev/sda: 931.53 GiB - internal SATA disk
> Disk /dev/sdb: 465.78 GiB - internal SATA disk
> Disk /dev/sdc: 298.9 GiB - firewire disk (front built-in firewire)
> Disk
Sorry, my mistake; Debian 7 and Debian SID ofpathnames match, I was
looking at ofpath.
On 4/16/20 11:38 AM, user...@yahoo.com wrote:
> On 4/16/20 9:23 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> ...
>>
>> Alternatively, can someone run the ofpathname command from the powerpc-utils
>>
On 4/16/20 9:23 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi!
>
> ...
>
> Alternatively, can someone run the ofpathname command from the powerpc-utils
> package on different physical disks, e.g. sda1 and sdb1 and do the same with
> the ofpath command?
>
> Adrian
>
Hi Adrian,
The following
On 4/16/20 7:34 PM, Romain Dolbeau wrote:
> ... because it's a different machine altogether ? :-)
Then it should still print the "sd@0" string instead of just "@0".
Basically, your G4 FW800 the ofpathname script outputs the correct path
and it also doesn't expect the error message as on your G5
On 4/16/20 7:24 PM, Romain Dolbeau wrote:
> dolbeau@powermacg4fw800:~$ sudo ofpathname /dev/sda
> /usr/sbin/ofpathname: line 812: warning: command substitution: ignored
> null byte in input
> /pci@f400/ata-6@d/scsi@0/sd@0,0
> dolbeau@powermacg4fw800:~$ sudo ofpath /dev/sda
>
Le jeu. 16 avr. 2020 à 19:18, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
a écrit :
> Huh? Where is that ofpathname from? Unless you have a patched version,
> it shouldn't be printing the SCSI with just an "@".
dolbeau@powermacg5:~$ dpkg -S /usr/sbin/ofpathname
powerpc-ibm-utils: /usr/sbin/ofpathname
> Le jeu. 16 avr. 2020 à 17:23, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> a écrit :
> > Alternatively, can someone run the ofpathname command from the powerpc-utils
> > package on different physical disks, e.g. sda1 and sdb1 and do the same with
> > the ofpath command?
On my PowerMac G4 FW800 ; this one has a
On 4/16/20 7:13 PM, Romain Dolbeau wrote:
> Le jeu. 16 avr. 2020 à 17:23, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> a écrit :
>> Alternatively, can someone run the ofpathname command from the powerpc-utils
>> package on different physical disks, e.g. sda1 and sdb1 and do the same with
>> the ofpath command?
>
Le jeu. 16 avr. 2020 à 17:23, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
a écrit :
> Alternatively, can someone run the ofpathname command from the powerpc-utils
> package on different physical disks, e.g. sda1 and sdb1 and do the same with
> the ofpath command?
On my G5 Quad:
dolbeau@powermacg5:~$ sudo
Hi!
On 4/16/20 6:13 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>> Anyone can provide me with access to a G5 for testing? I just want check the
>> device paths output by my patched "ofpathname".
>
> Yes. Send your SSH public keys/authorized_keys to noloader, gmail account.
Sent.
If I can successfully test this
> Anyone can provide me with access to a G5 for testing? I just want check the
> device paths output by my patched "ofpathname".
Yes. Send your SSH public keys/authorized_keys to noloader, gmail account.
On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 11:23 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
wrote:
>
> I have finally found
Hi!
On 4/16/20 5:23 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> 1) through 3) are fairly easy to implement, 4) needs some scripting-fu.
>
> I will work on the first three now.
Done. Could someone perform tests on various Mac systems, please and
provide the output of "ofpathname /dev/sda1",
Hi!
I have finally found some time to work on this issue again.
First things first, I have reviewed the messages in this thread and compared
it with the source code and the knowledge about the hardware I have.
I have concluded that the following changes are necessary in ofpathname:
1)
On 2019-07-30, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> I have started working on this now and first had a go at the
> ofpathname script from the powerpc-utils package [1].
>
> The script now prints out the correct Open Firmware path names on my
> iBook G4:
>
> root@test-adrian1:~/powerpc-utils# ofpath
Hello!
On 6/20/19 3:47 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> In order to collect data for fixing the limitations we have with
> grub-ofpathname,
> I have done some initial testing on our POWER8 buildd by comparing the output
> of Yaboot's ofpath [1], ofpathname from powerpc-utils [2] and
On 6/20/19 22:45, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hi Frank!
On 6/20/19 9:04 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
Combining the information from [1] and [2] for my 11,2 type G5 the
following OF paths are returned:
```
root@powermac-g5:~# ofpathname /dev/sda2
Hi Mathieu!
On 6/21/19 2:20 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> System: Mac Mini G4
>
> Using master branch from:
> $ git clone g...@github.com:ibm-power-utilities/powerpc-utils.git
> $ git clone git://ozlabs.org/srv/projects/yaboot/yaboot.git
> $ git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/grub.git
>
>
Adrian,
On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 3:47 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> In order to collect data for fixing the limitations we have with
> grub-ofpathname,
> I have done some initial testing on our POWER8 buildd by comparing the output
> of Yaboot's ofpath [1], ofpathname from
Hi Frank!
On 6/20/19 9:04 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
> Combining the information from [1] and [2] for my 11,2 type G5 the
> following OF paths are returned:
>
> ```
> root@powermac-g5:~# ofpathname /dev/sda2
> /ht@0,f200/pci@9/k2-sata-root@c/scsi@0/sd@0,0:2
>
> # The used `grub-ofpathname`
Hi Adrian,
On 6/20/19 15:47, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hi!
In order to collect data for fixing the limitations we have with
grub-ofpathname,
I have done some initial testing on our POWER8 buildd by comparing the output
of Yaboot's ofpath [1], ofpathname from powerpc-utils [2] and
Hi!
In order to collect data for fixing the limitations we have with
grub-ofpathname,
I have done some initial testing on our POWER8 buildd by comparing the output
of Yaboot's ofpath [1], ofpathname from powerpc-utils [2] and grub-ofpathname
[3].
Interestingly, all three return different path
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