Hello Len, It is happenning during the install, just after I boot from CD and choosing 'install64' (and any *64) . Tried with all imaginable boot parameters this problem still persists. But I also hate yaboot so I give a chance with grub2 & squeeze.
Thank you for the advise! Regards, Zsombor On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Lennart Sorensen <lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:49:03AM +0200, Zsombor wrote: >> I have a 64-bit p550 power where I tried to install Debian using image >> http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.6/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-506-powerpc-CD-1.iso >> About a year ago I had successfully installed Debian64 but booting >> with this image it says: >> >> [0.510170] Ramdisk: compressed image found at block0 >> [0.722845] Ramdisk: incomplete write (-28!=32768) 10485760 >> [0.771772] Ramdisk: ran out of compressed data >> [0.771782] Ramdisk: invalid compressed format (err=1) >> [0.791592] List all partitions: >> [0.791603] No filesystem could mount root, tried: >> [0.791614] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on >> unkown block(0,1) >> [0.791631] Rebooting in 180 seconds >> >> I gave a try with increasing ramdisk_size but Kernel panic still >> appears. Googling this error, XFS may be the problem but as far as I >> noticed it is resolved in Lenny. >> >> Can you please help with some advise? > > Is this what happens after the install on first boot? > > I know yaboot certainly didn't work for me when I installed recently on > a p520 (power6+ based) machine. I am now running grub2 (with some manual > tweaking needed for the install) which works great. I am running squeeze > now (I can't remember why lenny didn't work). > > -- > Len Sorensen > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlkti=ub4c+urb-rti21vuv1c84vjrv7nnkv2sq8...@mail.gmail.com
