Re: introduction and squeeze/power64 installs wrong kernel - success

2011-07-29 Thread Geoff Levand
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

Re: introduction and squeeze/power64 installs wrong kernel - success

2011-07-28 Thread Gasha
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:

introduction and squeeze/power64 installs wrong kernel

2011-07-27 Thread Gasha
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

Re: introduction and squeeze/power64 installs wrong kernel

2011-07-27 Thread Paul Mackerras
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

Re: introduction and squeeze/power64 installs wrong kernel

2011-07-27 Thread Gasha
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

Re: introduction and squeeze/power64 installs wrong kernel

2011-07-27 Thread David Ricar
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