On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 11:05:39PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 02:21:26PM -0400, Miro Juri??i?? wrote: > > Miro Juri??i?? wrote: > > >Yeah, I was going to as soon as I figure out exactly which one of many > > >different images that I failed with I should be using :-) I am burning > > >the sid_d-i image as per Colin's suggestion and will report back soon. > > > > I burned the image at > > <http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/powerpc/ > > 20040622/sarge-powerpc-businesscard.iso>. After entering install-power4 > > at the yaboot prompt, yaboot loads the kernel and the RAM disk, and > > then the machine dies with an OF error. Specifically, it fails trying > > to start the CPU at /cpus/PowerPC,G5 -- not too surprising, as my cpus > > are at /cpus/PowerPC,[EMAIL PROTECTED] and /cpus/PowerPC,[EMAIL PROTECTED], > > according to OF. I > > assume this is why you said that I need to use an SMP kernel, but I see > > no such kernel on that image. > > The 2.4.25 kernel image builds in the archive don't include a power4 SMP > kernel, or if they do they don't advertise it as such.
Well, the power4 2.4.25 kernel is the SMP version, if i remember well. Since each build represented 1 hour on my box, i did make only one > Can you try booting with install-power4-2.6? > > The 2.6.6 kernel image builds in the archive do include an SMP kernel, > which we currently aren't using. Is it safe to use this for all power4 > systems? Yep, but represent a 20-40 or so performance hit on uniprocessor system, at least that is what benh claimed, see previous threads on this. Friendly, Sven Luther
