On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 04:54:46PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Nov 10, 2004, at 6:01 AM, Sven Luther wrote: > > >On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 03:46:58AM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > >>The new yaboot seems to work at least on one of my machines. I'll > >>try some others later. > >> > >>Specifically, I tried it on my Blue&White G3. I booted holding > >>down the "C" key (ADB keyboard) and got the yaboot messages. At > >>the "boot:" prompt, I typed "expert video=ofonly" and it did the > >>expected things. In fact everything proceeded as expected til I > > > >Ok, thanks, can you forward info about this to the bug report ? It is : > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >>got to the partitioner, which hung up trying to look at the > >>partitions on the disk on my SIIG Ultra ATA 133/100 Pro IDE > >>controller PCI card. The "dmesg" command on the "F2" console > >>showed a bunch of messages > >> > >> hdg: dma_timeout_expiry: dma status == 0x24 > >> AEC62XX timeout <4>hdg: lost interrupt > >> > >>I've seen this before with 2.6 kernels. I've reported it to the > >>list in installation reports, but nobody seems to care. > > > >Can you fill a bug report about this against the powerpc > >kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc ? It seems to be a powerpc kernel problem. > > > >>So I was unable to proceed any further on that machine. > >> > >>... later ... > >> > >>I also tried it on my grey G4 minitower 733MHz. Worked fine up to > >>partitioning disks. This is a production machine with no free disk > >>partitions, so I couldn't proceed any further than that. I've got > >>a G4 450MHz at work with some free partitions, so I'll try a full > >>install there tomorrow. > > > >You tried only CD booting method, not net or disk, right ? > > > >>What was the bug number of the bug report you wanted me to reply to > >>for the new yaboot? > > > >See above. > > > I got a chance to do an install from your mini.iso on a test machine. > It's a "G4 350 MHz (AGP graphics)". I'm not clear as to whether this > will install your test yaboot or not, but here's what happened:
This will use my test yaboot for booting from the CD. > I booted off the CD and chose the default (i.e. non-expert) install at > the "boot:" prompt. I answered all the i18n questions with the default > (US-English) and configured the network manually (no DHCP on this net). > I chose the "debain.rutgers.edu" mirror because it's located in the > next building over on the same campus and I have a 100-Mbit connection > via campus LAN to it from the test machine. (I'm used to doing installs > over a fairly fast cable-modem that gets about 4 Mbit/sec on a good > day. This was *much* faster. <-8) When it came time to partition the > disk, I chose a guided partitioning, and it set me up with a 1 MB > "boot" partition, a 4 GB "root" partition, and a 260 MB swap partition. > > Then, for some reason I don't understand, it tried to install the > "quik" bootloader. This is definitely a NewWorld machine, so it should > have known better -- I would think! In any case, that got an error, > and it offered to let me install yaboot instead, which I did. This is definitively a bug, could you fill a bug report about this ? i guess quil-installer or debian-installer are the packages to report a bug against. > When the first phase was over, and it came time for the reboot, > everything went completely as expected, and I finished the installation > after an uneventful reboot. If this was using your new yaboot, then > I'd say the test was successful. Well, to test booting from the disk, you need to install my yaboot .deb, run ybin, and try rebooting. > If this sequence does *not* exercise your new yaboot, please give me > instructions for what to do next. I'll be in Atlanta for the > USENIX/LISA conference all next week, so my next opportunity for > testing will be a week from now. Ok. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
