On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 02:19:06PM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote: > > Am 20.12.2004 um 13:59 schrieb Sven Luther: > > >On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 10:49:32AM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote: > >>Hi! > >> > >>Since I had access for some power4 and power5 System the last time and > >>noticed that > >>the debian installer didn't work on this hardware (a 64bit kernel > >>seems > >>to be needed), > >>I did some integration on this and added a "pseries" target to the > >>debian installer including > >>the 64 bit kernel and a ready to use installer image. > > > >Why won't the 32bit power4 kernels boot on these machines ? They > >should, only > >the iseries really need a 64bit kernel. > > I don't know. The available installation images just crash before > there's anything > reasonable on the screen. Using the .config for a crosscompiled 2.6.9
Please provide a serial log output. Could you try also booting the -smp 2.6.8 debian kernel ? It may be that things like the sym53c8xx driver are -up broken, i have had reports of this earlier, but i am not sure that it would be what concerns you. > works fine. > Besides this, only a 2.6.9+ makes sense because of the included > virtualization > features. The 2.6.8(.1) did not boot a p670 at all, while the p615 and > new power5 > machines did.o Yep, i am working on real 64bit kernels, but saddly lacking time. I just uploaded 32bit biarch gcc compilers from doko to : http://debian-ppc64.alioth.debian.org/biarch/gcc-3.4biarch Mmm, damn, this URL doesn't work, need to fix it :/ > >>Sure, these power machines are not that common hardware for joe user, > >>but after > >>IBM started the openpower initiative its good for debian to support > >>these machines, too. I > >>personally like to contribute this stuff, so that other people can use > >>it, too. > >> > >>Anyway the installer is not perfect yet. Perhaps someone on the list > >>can give some quick > >>hints in order to save lot of time for me: > >> > >>* The partitioner needs to support (pseudo or whatever) the creation > >>of > >>a PPC PReP boot > >> partition, or just check for its existence, since it is needed for > >>booting. Where to set the > >> dependencies? What packages to create and/or modify? > > > >Fixed in latest parted uploads. partman-prep needs to be written, you > >are > >welcome to do this. > > I probably will if you can point me to some straight forward > documentation. I did > some digging in the partman-* packages some time ago, but in the > limited time I > had, it was not obvious what packages were needed for both issues > (creation of the > prep partition _and_ checking if it is there). If the first is fixed, I > should take a look at > it again, but hints are really wellcome. You know as much as me. look at the partman-palo as an example, since it does exactly the same thing. partman code is not the most readable of all :/ > >>* yaboot may be used to install to the PPC PReP boot partition. Same > >>like above. I didn't > >> find a place where the depencies are set... > > > >This should be fixed, at least i think Colin Watson uploaded a fixed > >version > >of this one lately. > > Since I've a new kernel, there's a new target in the installer (pseries > besides of > newworld, etc.), and I don't know where to put it that the installer > gets the idea > that calling yaboot may be a good idea. For the latest build I used the > components > from last wednesday. Bah, once we have official 64bit kernels, this may not be a problem anymore. Care to contribute to this ? I also have limited time, so it will probably happen next year, and on top of that, i don't have the hardware. Friendly, Sven Luther
